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Otar Taktakishvili – Georgian Composer, Conductor, Teacher, Public Figure..
Otar Vasilevich TAKTAKISHVILI
composer
Otar TAKTAKISHVILI, USSR Composer. Director and Artistic Director, Georgia State Choir, since 1953; instructor, Tbilisi Conservatory, since 1949; Secretary, USSR Union of Composers, since 1957; Secretary, Georgia Union of Composers, since 1956.
Otar Vasilyevich Taktakishvili was a classical music composer, teacher and conductor in Soviet Georgia best known in the West for his flute sonata.
Order of Red Banner of Labor, 1958; medal; two Stalin Prizes, 1951, 1952. Member, Communist Party, since 1951.
Background
Taktakishvili, Otar was born on July 27, 1924 in Tbilisi.
Education
1947 graduated composition class, Tbilisi Conservatory.
1950 completed postgrad, course at above.
Career
Early training at the Tbilisi Music School. At the Conservatory, 1942-1949.
The centennial celebration of Otar Taktakishvili, one of Georgia's most revered composers, unfolded at the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theater.Postgraduate work under S. Barkhudarian.
While a student, worked as conductor of the Radio Choir, 1947-1952. Conductor and artistic director with the State Choir, 1952-1956. With leading symphonic and choral ensembles in performances of his own works from 1957.
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