Gevorg Geodakyan

Gevorg Shmavoni Geodakyan^[1] (Armenian: Գևորգ Շմավոնի Գյոդակյան; Russian: Гео́ргий Шмаво́нович Геодакя́н, romanized: Georgy Shmavonovich Geodakyan;^[2] 12 August 1928 – 20 December 2015) was an Armenian musicologist.^[3] He headed the Music Department of the Institute of Arts of the Armenian Academy of Sciences since 1966.^[3]

Gevorg Geodakyan
Born	(1928-08-12)12 August 1928 Gyumri, Armenia (then Leninakan, Soviet Union)
Died	20 December 2015(2015-12-20) (aged 87)
Alma mater	Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory (1952), Moscow Conservatory (1956)
Occupation	musicologist

Born in Leninakan (present-day Gyumri),^[2] Geodakyan first graduated from the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory in 1952 and then completed his postgraduate studies at the Moscow Conservatory in 1956.^[4] He died on 20 December 2015 at the age of 87.^[5]