U.S. Embassy in Georgia - Today the world lost a legendary composer, Gia Kancheli

11:04, 02.10.2019

“Today the world lost a legendary composer, Gia Kancheli. His music transcended time and culture and it will live on forever. Today more than ever, the yellow leaves seem silent,” reads the letter of condolence published by the U.S. Embassy in Georgia in the social network.

Gia Kancheli, the well-known Georgian composer died at the age of 84. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kancheli has lived in Western Europe: first in Berlin, and since 1995 in Antwerp, where he became composer-in-residence for the Royal Flemish Philharmonic. He resided in Belgium.

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Gia Kancheli

U.S. Embassy in Georgia