Givi Sh. Ordzhonikidze

Musicologist, critic, writer, public figure. Born in 1929 in Tiflis. He graduated from the Department of Music Theory and Composition of Tbilisi Conservatory and then taught therein the years 1955–1968. In 1959 he defended his thesis on the topic «Andrei Balanchivadze». From 1967 he worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR. In1974–1984 he was a Chairman of the Union of Composers of Georgia. He died in 1984.