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Gia Kancheli (Georgian: გია ყანჩელი; 10 August 1935 – 2 October 2019) was a Georgian composer. He was born in Tbilisi , Georgia but resided in Belgium . After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kancheli lived first in Berlin , and from 1995 in Antwerp , where he became composer-in-residence for the Royal Flemish ...
Oct 2, 2019 · One of the most prominent composers of the late 20th century has died. Georgia's Giya Kancheli wrote music full of light, shade and an incandescent longing. He was 84 years old.
giya kancheli Dresden Symphony Orchestra-Helmrath, Michael The music of Soviet Georgia-born composer Giya Kancheli is at once patriotic and pessimistic, and those two traits add up to an...
Georgian composer Giya Kancheli has died in Tblisi. He was 84. A highly original musical thinker, Kancheli often attributed his artistic independence to his early listening.
Oct 2, 2019 · One of the most recognised and acclaimed classical voices from his home country, he belonged to a generation of Soviet-born composers who lived through, and were influenced by, the tumultuous dissolution of the USSR and independence of many of its constituent republics.
Oct 3, 2019 · Aged 84, the world-renowned legendary Georgian composer Giya Kancheli passed away on October 2, following an illness he had been suffering for the past few years.
Kancheli, who comes from Tiflis (Tbilsi), in Georgia – and who should not therefore be described as Russian – studied piano and composition (with Ilya Tuskiya) in the Conservatory of his native town between 1959 and 1963, and he has himself taught there since 1970.
