Aznavour through his instrumentations

Aznavour was a great poet. But it's often forgotten that the singer-songwriter's success also rests on his particularly successful instrumentation, at the service of his lyrics. Strings, piano and acoustic guitar come together in a coherent musical style.

Charles Aznavour, whose death we mourn today for his breathtaking career, leaves us over twelve hundred songs, almost all of whose lyrics he wrote. Aznavour was also a great composer. Georges Garvarentz, also Armenian, was his great musical writing partner, penning such classics as Et pourtant, Non je n'ai rien oublié and Les plaisirs démodés. But if Charles Aznavour declared, at the Fête de la chanson française 2013 on France 2, that a song has four authors, namely the poet, the composer, the performer and the audience, it seemed to us that at least one of these four authors is the poet, the composer, the performer and the audience.