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Mzisavar (Mzia) Diakvnishvili

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Mzisavar (Mzia) Zakarias Asuli Diakvnishvili

1937-2012

 

Composer, teacher, pianist

 

Member of the Composers' Union (1966), and the Coordination Council (1990-1992)

 

 

Date of birth, place

 

1937.10.28. Tbilisi (Georgia)

Date of death, place

 

2012.06.17. Tbilisi (Georgia) (Passed away at the age of 74)

Burrial place

 

Dusheti Cemetery;

Nearest Anniversary Date

 

2027 - 90 years from birth

2027 - 15 years from death

 

Education

(School, Teacher)

 

1944-1951 - Khoni (formerly Tsulukidze) Music School, Piano Department;

1952-1956 - Kutaisi No. 7 Secondary School, Kutaisi M. Balanchivadze Music School, Piano Department, Piano Department, Teachers: Tsira Kargareteli, Era Kalandadze;

1956-1963 - Tbilisi V. Sarajishvili State Conservatory, Composition Faculty, Class of Composer Alexi Machavariani;

 

Geographic data of activity

 

Tbilisi, Kutaisi, Dusheti (Georgia);

 

Work place

position

 

1954-1957 - Dusheti Music School;

1965-2007 - Tbilisi D. Arakishvili First Music School, teacher of general education and theoretical subjects;

 

Creative Field

 

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

 

 

Ancestors / family members

Descendants

 

Father - Zakaria Ilarioni’s son Diakvnishvili, musician - theorist, violinist, founder and director of the Dusheti Music School (the school bears his name);

Mother - Sophio Partsvania, economist, housewife;

Brother - Badur Zakaria’s son Diakvnishvili (1941-2014), clarinetist, Tbilisi Opera Theater State Symphony Orchestra, Dean of the String Department of the Conservatory, Associate Professor;

Brother - Gogi Zakaria’s son Diakvnishvili (1940), trumpeter. Teacher at the Dusheti Music School;

Nephew - Shavleg Gogi’s son Diakvnishvili (1983), economist, head of the sales department of “Sharm Trading”;

Niece - Sophio Gogi’s daughter Diakvnishvili (1987), economist, housewife;

 

close people

 

Vazha Azarashvili, Nugzar Vatsadze, Lili Shaverzashvili, Natela Kvirkvelia, Nunu Gabunia, Nani Bregvadze, Temur Tsaguria;

 

Heir of creative work

 

Gogi, Shavleg and Sofio Diakvnishvili;

 

Locaton of Material

 

 

Family archive; Georgian House of Arts; Georgian National Library of the Parliament; Georgian National Archive; Tbilisi V. Sarajishvili State Conservatory Archive and Library; Georgian Television and Radio Archive;