Composer Tamara Nikolayevna Vakhvakhishvili (23 December 1893 – 1976)
was born in
Warsaw
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, but lived much of her life in Georgia, where she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Vakhvakhishvili studied piano and composition at the music school in
Tbilisi
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, Georgia (today the
Tbilisi State Conservatoire
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). From 1921 to 1923, she served as the director of the school. From 1922 to 1926, she headed the music department of the
Rustaveli Theatre in Tbilisi. In 1927, Vakhvakhishvili studied composition with
Paul Vidal at the
Paris Conservatoire. She met artist and set designer
David Kakabadze
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while she was in Paris, and later worked with him at the Kutaisi-Batumi State Drama Theater. She worked at the
Marjanishvili Theatre from 1928 to 1933, then moved to Moscow. In 1940, she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
List of compositions
Vakhvakhishvili's compositions included:
Ballet
*''Bacchus' Holiday''
*''Herb of Love
''
*''Spartacus''
Orchestra
*Dance Suite
*March of the Heroes
*Symphonic Etude
*Violin Concerto
Theatre
*''Don Khil'' (musical comedy)
*''Iranian Pantomime''
*''Khandzari'' (pantomime)
*''Mzetamzem'' (pantomime)
*
''Uriel Acosta'' (tragedy in three acts)
Vocal
*''Cantata'' (solo voice, choir and orchestra; text by B. Bronevsky and
Nikolai Tikhonov)
*''Citation'' (solo voice and orchestra; text by
Shota Rustaveli; Russian translation by
Konstantin Balmont
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)
*''Georgian Folk Ballad'' (orator and orchestra)
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vakhvakhishvili, Tamara
Soviet women composers
Soviet composers
1893 births
1976 deaths