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The play is about Gomidas Vartabed, a musicologist, composer, choir conductor, and a priest, born in Kütahya during the Ottoman period, who is familiar with both Anatolia and Armenia that he referred to as the "Music Box." Gomidas's journey is shaped by many tragic stories.

The Kütahya-born artist who is often referred to as the "founder of Armenian Classical Music" was one of the 234 Armenian intellectuals who were arrested on April 24, 1915, the day marked as the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.