Giya Kancheli
Giya Kancheli
10.08.1935 (89 years) (Tbilisi, Georgia SSR, USSR)
Giya Kancheli (Georgian: გია ყანჩელი) (10 August 1935 – 2 October 2019) was a Soviet and 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 Philharmonic. He died in his home city of Tbilisi, aged 84.