Ia (Ilya) Georgievich Kargareti ( Georgian ია (ი ია) გიორგის ძე კარგარეთელი ; 1867 , , Russian Empire , now Georgia - March 31, 1939 , Tbilisi , Georgian SSR , now Georgia ) - Georgian composer, folklorist tenor) and teacher.
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| Place of Birth | Ertatsminda, Russian Empire |
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| A place of death | Tbilisi , Georgian SSR |
| Professions | composer singer folklorist |
| Singing voice | tenor |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Literary works
- 3 Awards
- 4 Literature
Biography
In his youth, he sang in the folk choir of . He took solo singing lessons from the conductor of the Georgian choir Joseph Ratil, has been soloing in the choir since 1885. In 1889-1895 he studied at the vocal and theoretical departments of the Music and Drama School of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. In 1889-1891 he was the organizer of the evenings of Georgian music in Moscow. Since 1896, he was the soloist of the Tiflis Opera House , and since 1905, the director of the same theater. For the first time, he staged a number of operas by both Western European and Russian composers on the Georgian stage. In 1903 he took an active part in the organization of the Georgian Philharmonic Society. In 1910 he founded the Georgian Choral Society. From 1910 he taught singing and musical literacy at the Tbilisi Theological Seminary , and in 1922-1925 - the history and theory of music at the Tbilisi Conservatory . He is the author of the first Georgian romances (among the famous ones: “Oh, Beauty” to verses by Ilya Chavchavadze , “Dry Tears” to verses by Nikolai Baratashvili and others). He collected and published 3 collections of Georgian folk songs (1899, 1909, 1921). He collected, researched and promoted Georgian folk music. Arranged ethnographic lectures and concerts.
Independently and in collaboration with Valerian, Gunia translated the libretto of operas into Georgian: “ Demon ” by Rubinstein , “ Queen of Spades ” by Tchaikovsky , “ Barber of Seville ” by Rossini , “ Faust ” by Gounod , “ Bohemia ” by Puccini , “ La Traviata ”, “ Rigoletto ”, “ Masquerade Ball ”,“ Othello ”(all four are Verdi ) and others.
Literary works
- About Georgian music. - M., 1893.
- About the Georgian song: (Regarding the work of M. Ippolitov-Ivanov, “Georgian Folk Song and Its Current State”) // New Review. 1895. No. 3855.
- Georgian music // Moambe. 1895. No. 11. (cargo.)
- Secular poetry and song // Iveria. 1902. No. 145. (cargo.)
- Essay on Georgian folk music. - Tiflis, 1901.
- A brief essay on the history of Georgian music // The whole Caucasus, Dep. III - Tiflis, 1903.
- Georgian folk songs and poems. - Tiflis, 1909.
- Folk song and its cultural and social significance // Transcaucasian speech. 1912. No. G, The Musical Encyclopedia - Tiflis, 1933. (cargo)
Rewards
- 1938 - Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR
Literature
- Musical Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. G.V. Keldysh. - M.: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1990. - p. 237 - ISBN 5-85270-033-9
- Arakishvili D., Ia Kargareteli, “Literature and Helovneba”, 1949, No 14. (cargo)
- Gevasheli L., Ia Kargareteli, Tb., 1959. (cargo)