Yekmalyan studied at the
Echmiadzin seminary and later in
St Petersburg with
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He then taught music in
Tbilisi (Tiflis), where he died in 1905. His most noted composition was the
Patarag (in
Armenian Պատարագ), the setting of the
Armenian Apostolic Church's
Divine Liturgy, which he completed in 1892 in several arrangements.
Patarag was first published in
Leipzig in 1896. == Bibliography ==