Tamara Antonovna Shaverzashvili ( ka, თამარ შავერზაშვილი; 14 October 1891 – 18 September 1955) was a Georgian composer, pianist, and teacher who composed many children's songs and received an Honored Worker in Art award. She published her music under the name Tamara Shaverzashvili.
Shaverzashvili was born in
Kutaisi
Kutaisi ( ; ka, ქუთაისი ) is a city in the Imereti region of the Georgia (country), Republic of Georgia. One of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, it is the List o ...
. She graduated from the Tiflis Music School, where she studied piano and composition with
Vladimir Shcherbachov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Shcherbachov (Shcherbachyov, Shcherbachev) (; 25 January 1889, in Warsaw – 5 March 1952, in Leningrad) was a Soviet composer.
He studied with Maximilian Steinberg, Anatoly Lyadov, and Jāzeps Vītols (Joseph Wihtol) at t ...
and
Iona Tuskia. Later, she studied with
Pyotr Ryazanov.
Shaverzashvili taught piano privately, and from 1935 to 1938, lived in Tbilisi and taught at the Z. Paliashvili Central Music School. In 1938, she began teaching at the
Tbilisi Conservatory and during her tenure there was awarded the Honored Worker in Art award in 1946.
Baritone
David Gamrekeli and pianist T. Dunenko recorded at least one of her songs commercially in 1938.
Shaverzashvili's compositions included:
Chamber
*''String Quartet''
*''Suite'' (cello and piano; 1949)
*''Suite'' (for winds; 1938)
Orchestra
*Suite (1935)
*Twelve Pieces from Children's Suite
*Two Marches
Piano
*''Children’s Album'' (40 pieces; 1946)
*''Nocturne''
*''Pastorale
''
*''Polyphonic Suite
''
*''Spinning Wheel
''
*''Twenty Children’s Pieces'' (1952)
Theater
*''Spring''
*''Spring and Summer''
Vocal
*''Fifty Songs for School Children'' (1923-1929)
*“My Sadness” (text by
Alexander Chavchavadze
Prince Alexander Chavchavadze ( ka, ალექსანდრე ჭავჭავაძე, ; 1786 – 6 November 1846) was a Georgian poet, public benefactor and military figure. Regarded as the "father of Georgian romanticism", he was a pre- ...
)
*“Pesni Gor”
*“Regret” (text by
Ioseb Grishashvili
Ioseb Grishashvili ( ka, იოსებ გრიშაშვილი) was a pen name of Ioseb Mamulishvili (Georgian: ; born 12 April/24 April 1889 – died 3 August 1965) was a noted poet and historian from Georgia. A history museum in Tbilisi ...
)
*''Twelve Children’s Songs'' (1925)
*''Two Lullabies''
External links
Hear Nocturne by Tamara Shaverzashvili
References
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Women composers
1891 births
1955 deaths
Honored Artists of the Georgian SSR
21st-century musicians from Georgia (country)
String quartet composers