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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 ...
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.
Oct 2, 2019 · Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli (1935-2019) by David Smith. The Georgian composer Giya Kancheli has died at the age of 84 in his home city of Tbilisi. 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 ...
Oct 2, 2019 · Giya Kancheli (b. 10 August 1935, Tbilisi – d. 2 October 2019, Tbilisi). Georgian composer, later resident in Belgium, of works that have been performed throughout the world.
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.
Giya Kancheli, Georgia’s most distinguished composer, was born in Tbilisi in 1935 and has lived in Western Europe since 1991. A sense of exile, a longing for a time and place irrecoverably lost are recurring preoccupations in his music.
Jan 7, 2015 · 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.
