Micheil Shugliashvili

Mikheil Shugliashvili , Georgian მიხეილ შუღლიაშვილი , also Mikheil Shugliashvili (born January 17, 1941 in Tbilisi , Georgian SSR , † November 23, 1996 in Georgia) was a Georgian composer .

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He graduated from the Conservatory in Tbilisi in 1964, where he studied composition with Andria Balantschiwadze . From 1959 he taught music theory at various schools in Tbilisi.

In the 1960s and 1970s he wrote a series of instrumental works in which he moved away from serial counterpoint towards a meditative minimalism. His musical thinking was influenced on the one hand by scientific positivism, on the other hand by information theory and structuralism. His work is determined by a cult of the objective, in which the sound concept arises constructively and logically, taking into account various categories of numbers that are inscribed in the music. As a logical consequence, in 1995 he founded the first studio for computer music in Georgia in Tbilisi.

Constant changes in structure in density, volume, rhythm, dynamics and timbre characterize his compositions. These parameters are combined in acoustic impulses and individual cells or groups are spatially relocated - similar to some experiments by the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Shugliashvili's compositional oeuvre comprises 22 compositions, including orchestral works, chamber music and solo works, which were composed between 1960 and 1979 and not all of which have been premiered to this day. Mikheil Shugliashvili has also composed film music for feature films, documentaries and cartoons.

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SURNAME	Shugliashvili, Micheil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Shugliashvili, Mikheil; მიხეილ შუღლიაშვილი (Georgian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Georgian composer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 17, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tbilisi , Georgian SSR
DATE OF DEATH	November 23, 1996
Place of death	Georgia