Giya Kancheli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Giya Kancheli

Georgian composer

Date of Birth: 10-Aug-1935

Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia

Date of Death: 02-Oct-2019

Profession: composer

Nationality: Georgia

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Giya Kancheli (Georgian: ??? ???????) (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.