Alexander Basilaia (Georgian: ალექსანდრე ბასილაია; March 11, 1942 – October 3, 2009) was a Georgiancomposer and songwriter of popular music and film scores. He led the popular musical group Iveria since its founding in 1968 through the mainstream success in the 1970s and 1980s until his death of a long and severe disease in Germany in 2009. He held the titles of Honored Artist of Georgia and Honored Citizen of Tbilisi.[1]
Basilaia was trained as a contrabassist at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire and became active at the Soviet Georgian scene in 1963. In 1968 he founded an ensemble (VIA) which was named Iveria after an ancient Georgian kingdom. Basilaia was a principal composer and an art manager for Iveria which quickly gained popularity for its fusion of pop, rock and jazz with traditional Georgian music and attained to Soviet-wide fame with its musicalsThe Wedding of Jays (1980) and The Argonauts (1982). Basilaia’s third and the last musical Pirosmani was successfully staged in both Georgia and Russia in 1996. Basilaia's last work "Something Has Ended" appeared shortly before the composer’s death in October 2009. He was buried at the Didube Pantheon in Tbilisi.[2]
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^(in Georgian) ალექსანდრე ბასილაია 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine. Municipality of Tbilisi. Retrieved on October 7, 2009
^(in Georgian) ალექსანდრე ბასილაია გერმანიიდან ჩამოასვენეს. The 24 Hours. October 6, 2009
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Alexander Basilaia 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine. Georgian National Cinema database
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