Tigran Chukhajian

Ottoman Armenian composer, conductor, and writer (1837–1898)

Tigran Chukhajian (1837-1898) was a famous Armenian composer and the founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire. He composed the first Armenian opera, Arshak II, about the life of Armenian king Arshak II.

Painting of Tigran Chukhajian.