Date of birth, place

1919.08.31  Tbilisi (Georgia)

Date of death, place

2001.07.30. Tbilisi (Georgia) (Passed away at the age of 81)

Burrial place

Tbilisi, Vake Cemetery

Nearest Anniversary Date

2029 - 110 years from birth

2026 - 25 years from death

Education

(School, Teacher)

1926-1936 - Tbilisi Stalin 1st Experimental Demonstration School;

1926-1938 - Tbilisi I Music School, piano class;

1938-1943 - Tbilisi V. Sarajishvili State Conservatory,

Composition: Prof. Petre Ryazanov and Prof. Andria Balanchivadze's class (diploma with honors);

Solo piano: Prof. Anastasia Virsaladze and Prof. Valentina Steshenko-Kuftina's class (diploma with honors);

1945-1949 - Moscow P. Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, postgraduate studies (on a secondment from the Department of Arts Affairs under the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Georgia), composition supervisors: Professors D. Kabalevsky, V. Shebalin, I. Shaporin, thesis supervisor: Doctor of Art History, Prof. V. Belyaev.

Geographic data of activity

Tbilisi (Georgia), Moscow (Russia)

Work place

position

Position 1943-1945 - Tbilisi III Music School, teacher of theoretical disciplines;

1949-1974 - Tbilisi Z. Paliashvili Central Music School "Decade of Talents", teacher, head of the teaching department (1952-1956);

1956-1998 - Tbilisi V. Sarajishvili State Conservatory, Department of Music Theory, teacher, associate professor (1961), professor (1966), head of the Department of Music Theory (1973-1991);

Creative Field

Composer works: symphonic, chamber-instrumental, chamber-vocal, choral music;

Scientific works: 1949 - Candidate's thesis, topic: "Some features of the musical language of Zakaria Paliashvili's opera "Abesalom and Ether"

Ancestors / family members

Descendants

Father – DimitriTumanishvili (1889-), engineer, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Georgian Polytechnic Institute, Associate Professor, Head of Department;

Mother - Nino Japaridze (1899-), engineer, Georgian Polytechnic Institute;

Brother - Grigol Tumanishvili (1925-), biologist, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi State University, Head of the Department of Cytology, Member of the Parliament of Georgia of the 3rd convocation;

Daughters-in-law:

Ketevan Jandieri (1927), biologist, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Tbilisi State University;

Nana Givi Kvitsiani (1967), art critic;

Nephew - Dimitri Tumanishvili (1950), art historian, Doctor of Art History, Deputy Director of the G. Chubinashvili Georgian Art Center; Head of the Department of Medieval Architecture, Chairman of the Scientific Council, Professor of the Tbilisi A. Kutateladze State Academy of Arts and the Tbilisi Theological Academy;

Nephew - Teimuraz Tumanishvili 1953 Biologist, Doctor of Biology, Tbilisi State University, Lecturer;

Nephews:

Grigol Tumanishvili (1994)

Manuchar Tumanishvili (1995)

Dimitri Tumanishvili (1997)

Archil Tumanishvili (2004)

close people

Sulkhan Tsintsadze, Andria Balanchivadze

Heir of creative work

Nana Kvitsiani, Grigol Tumanishvili, Manuchar Tumanishvili, Dimitri Tumanishvili, Archil Tumanishvili;

Locaton of Material

Family archive; Georgia National Library of Parliament; Tbilisi V. Sarajishvili house Archive and Library of the State Conservatory; Georgia National Archives; Radio archive of the Georgian Public Broadcaster;