Aleksandre Basilaia, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Georgian musician
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Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia
About Aleksandre Basilaia
- Alexander Basilaia (Georgian: ?????????? ????????) (March 11, 1942 – October 3, 2009) was a Georgian composer and songwriter of popular music and film scores.
- He led the popular musical group Iveria since its founding in 1968 through the mainstream success in the 1970s and 1980s until his death of a long and severe disease in Germany in 2009.
- He held the titles of Honored Artist of Georgia and Honored Citizen of Tbilisi.Basilaia was trained as a contrabassist at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire and became active at the Soviet Georgian scene in 1963.
- In 1968 he founded an ensemble (VIA) which was named Iveria after an ancient Georgian kingdom.
- Basilaia was a principal composer and an art manager for Iveria which quickly gained popularity for its fusion of pop, rock and jazz with traditional Georgian music and attained to Soviet-wide fame with its musicals The Wedding of Jays (1980) and The Argonauts (1982).
- Basilaia’s third and the last musical Pirosmani was successfully staged in both Georgia and Russia in 1996.
- Basilaia's last work "Something Has Ended" appeared shortly before the composer’s death in October 2009.
- He was buried at the Didube Pantheon in Tbilisi.
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