Eduard Aramovich Khagagortyan (15 July 1930 – 3 January 1983) was a Soviet Armenian composer and music public figure. He was born in Tbilisi, studied violin at a music school, and later trained in composition at the Yerevan Conservatory with Grigoriy Yeghiazaryan.
After graduating in 1955, Khagagortyan undertook postgraduate study at the Moscow Conservatory under Aram Khachaturian. He joined the Union of Composers of the USSR in 1964 and became a member of its board after 1970. From 1973, he served as deputy editor-in-chief of the Soviet Composer publishing house. In 1979 he was named Honored Art Worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
Khagagortyan took a professional interest in folk music and made several recordings of it; folklore also influenced his compositional style. His works include the operas The Cat and the Dog (1958) and The Hat with Ears (1976), the ballets The Nightingale and the Rose (1956) and Sonna (1957), six symphonies for large symphony orchestra written between 1962 and 1980, concertos for clarinet and orchestra (1966) and harp and orchestra (1970), three string quartets, and a piano quintet.
He also wrote music for many films, including Shahsenem and Garib (1963), Traces Vanish Beyond the Horizon (1964), Eastern Corridor (1966), In the Mountains Is My Heart (1967), A Road of a Thousand Miles (1968), Blue and Green (1970), The Most Sultry Month (1974), What Is Happening to You? (1975), Urgent Call (1978), Inspector of the Traffic Police (1982), and Profession: Investigator (1982).
Khagagortyan died in Moscow in January 1983 and was buried at Vagankovo Cemetery.