Komitas’s works in the Memory of the World register

The painting shows a bearded man in a long black garment, sitting on a carpet with his back against a tree, reading a book. A long-necked string instrument leans against the tree, there is a blue vessel on the right, and a snow-capped mountain rises in the background.

In 2023 the works of Komitas, the great Armenian clergyman, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer and choirmaster, were included in UNESCO’s Memory of the World register after a unanimous vote of the Executive Board.