Karen Khachaturian . Note to Discogs submitters: for the composer of the Sabre Dance , please use Aram Khatchaturian. Karen was born in Moscow in the family of a theatrical director Suren Khachaturian and studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Dmitri Shostakovich, Nikolai Myaskovsky and . He wrote the Violin Sonata . From the early fifties, Karen Khachaturian had been teaching at the Moscow Conservatory. Some of his notable students include Alexander Tchaikovsky, Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina, Kan-San-U, , and Valery Polyansky.
