Giya Kancheli
Born: 10 August 1935, Tblisi (Georgia)
Died:
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Kancheli news
- Wolf Prize for Kancheli and Claudio Abbado
(22 January 2008)On 21 January the Wolf Foundation has announced the winners of the Wolf awards for 2007.
The music award is for composer Italian composer Giya Kancheli and the conductor Claudio Abbado.
Kancheli and Abbado will receive a diploma and a sum of $100,000 from the president of Israel in a ceremony at the Knesset next Sunday, 27 January.
Richardo Wolf, who lived from 1887 till 1981, was a German-born inventor, businessman and diplomat. The awards were established in 1975.
[source: www.jpost.com]
Sheet music
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[details ←] Night Prayer
[details ←] Symphony No. 5
[details ←] Mourned by the Wind
[details ←] Abii Ne Viderem
Music
Compositions include: Midday Prayers and Night Prayers, ECN 78118-21568-2.
[Source: Classical Pulse! Apr/May 97]
Further 7 symphonies, musicals, music for Geargian radio and TV and a viola concerto.
Some of Giya Kancheli’s works are recorded on ECM:
- Vom Winde beweint
- Abii ne viderem
- Exil
- Caris Mere
Biography
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Classical Music : Search
by: Giya Kancheli, Sofia Gubaidulina, Yuri Bashmet, Valery Gergiev, Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre
by: Giya Kancheli, Dennis Russell Davies, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Natalia Pschenitschnikova, Kim Kashkashian, Vasiko Tevdorashvili, Hilliard Ensemble
from: Ecm Records
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