Revaz Lagidze

Revaz Ilias dze Lagidze
Lagidze in his youth
Born	(1921-07-10)July 10, 1921
Died	October 16, 1981(1981-10-16) (aged 60)
Era	20th century

Revaz Ilias dze Lagidze (July 10, 1921 – October 16, 1981;

Lagidze was born on July 10, 1921, in the Imereti region of Georgia, which had been occupied by Bolshevik Russia a few months prior.

In 1939, he graduated from the 4th Tbilisi Music School, where he studied violin. Throughout the 1940s, he played violin at the Georgian State Symphony Orchestra and then radio.

In 1948, Lagidze graduated from the

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Lagidze wrote music for more than 30 films. He authored numerous ballads for Georgian pop singers of his time, such as Lily Gegelia.

In 1973, Lagidze completed the opera "Lela", which touched upon Georgian historical themes and earned him the state prize of the Georgian SSR.

Through the end of his life, Lagidze taught music, being the head of the music department at the Tbilisi Pedagogical Institute and an instructor for the state symphony orchestra.

Lagidze died in 1981 and was interred at the Didube Pantheon.

Bibliography

• ახმეტელი მ., რევაზ ლაღიძე, "საბჭოთა ხელოვნება", 1976, No. 7;
• Орджоникидзе Г. Ш.,Реваз Лагидзе, წგნ.: Советская музыка, М., 1956;
• Торадзе Г. Г., Творения щедрого дара, «Советская музыка», 1976, No. 5;
• ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია, ტ. 6, თბ., 1983. — გვ. 146–147.
• ზ. ბაბუნაშვილი, თ. ნოზაძე, "მამულიშვილთა სავანე", გვ. 232, თბ., 1994

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