Six Preludes for piano. No 3

Gayane Chebotaryan (18 November 1918 – 1 January 1998)
Chebotaryan was an Armenian composer and musicologist.
She was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, and graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory.

In 1947 she took a teaching position with the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory where she was appointed professor in 1977. She was made an Honored Art Worker of the Armenian SSR in 1965, and published a work on the polyphonic characteristics of Aram Khachaturian in 1969.

Prelude No 3. An elegy style piece from a set of 6 preludes from around the 50's.
All pieces are very folkloristic and one can clearly hear the rhythms and favorite harmonies of the Caucasus region.