People's Artist of the GSSR (1967). Born on May 29 (June 11), 1913 in Tiflis. In 1935 he graduated from the Tbilisi Conservatory in the classical composition of M.M. Bagrinovskogo, V.V. Shcherbacheva and I.I. Tuskia, postgraduate study in 1938 (supervisor I. I. Tuskia, P. B. Ryazanov and B. A. Arapov). Since 1938 - teacher, since 1963 - Professor of the Tbilisi Conservatory, in 1945-1947 - Dean of the Faculty of Theoretical Composition. In the years 1931-1934 - conductor and composer Dram, Theater. K. Marjanishvili. Founder and artistic director (1941-1943) of the State Variety Orchestra of the Georgian SSR. Works: operas - Nana (Tbilisi, 1959), We, mothers of the world (1966); ballets - Hamlet (1971), Medea (1975); operetta - Dragonfly (based on the comedy M. Baratashvili "Marine", Sverdlovsk, 1952); for soloists, choir and orchestra - the Vityaz oratorio in tiger-skin (1938); for orchestra, bass and female choir - Three monologues about Lenin (1970); for the orchestra - suites: Girl from Hidobani (1939), Pioneer (1946), suite from the operetta Dragonfly (1953), Estradnaya (1961), Painting (1950), The solemn ode (1967); Concerts with orchestra - for violin (1946), for cello (1950); children's suite for string orchestra - Four Strokes (1969); for chamber orchestra - Two textures (1969); for pop orchestra - Georgian Rhapsody; for stringed instruments, piano and timpani - symphony (1964), symphony No. 2 (1971), No. 3 (Rostok, 1972), chamber symphony (1965, 1968); 9 variations - concert for nonet (1971); for brass band - 3 march; 4 quartets (1946, 1955, 1962, 1962); 3 string quartets; Divertimento for woodwind quartet (1969); for piano - Sonata (1965), 5 Inventions (1963), Little Pieces (1967), a series of children's pieces (1968); for violin solo sonata (1936); for choir and orchestra - the Song about the Party and the Song about the astronauts (1963); for voice with piano - romances: Be excited, the sea (words by A. Tsereteli, 1938), Drying tears (words by N. Baratashvili, 1947), On the hills of Georgia (words by A. Pushkin, 1946), vocalism (1953), Meeting (words M. Lermontov, 1940); songs (more than 50); music for dramatic performances and films. He passed away on June 9, 1999.