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Meri Davitashvili - Scherzo for piano (audio + sheet music)

Meri Davitashvili (March 13, 1924 – February 17, 2014) is a Georgian composer, teacher, and one of the founders of Georgian children’s music. Meri Davitashvili was born in Tbilisi and graduated from the Music College in Kutaisi in 1941. She then studied at the Faculty of Music Theory and Music History at the Vano Sarajishvili State Conservatory in Tbilisi and graduated in 1946 in the composition class of Andria Balanchivadze, the brother of the choreographer George Balanchine. In the same year, she became a member of the Soviet Composers' Union. From 1954 to 1968, she was head of the music for children department of the Georgian Composers' Union. She was a member of the board of the association from 1956, and from 1968 to 1990 she was the association's executive secretary. In addition, from 1968 she was chairwoman of the Georgian Commission for Music Education of Children and from 1972 until her death she headed the organizing committee of the Georgian Children's and Youth Music Week , a festival that was named after her in 2010. She also took part in congresses of the International Society for Music Education (ISME), for example in 1970 in Moscow and in 1976 in Switzerland. From 1973, Davitashvili taught at the Vano Sarajishvili Conservatory in Tbilisi as a lecturer for the subjects polyphony, orchestration, the basics of composition and score reading. In 1994, she was awarded the title of professor and worked as a university lecturer until 2006. In 2011, her autobiography was published under the title Memories of Days Gone By. She died on February 17, 2014, shortly before her 90th birthday. Her grave is in the Saburtalo Pantheon cemetery in Tbilisi. Meri Davitashvili's compositional work includes works in various genres. She wrote two children's operas, Kadschana (1966) and Nazarkekija (1972), as well as the ballet The Wedding of the Sun, premiered in 1956 at the Zakharia Paliashvili State Opera and Ballet Theater. In addition, there are two orchestral suites, chamber music and piano works, as well as choral and vocal music, including songs, romances and children's songs to texts by Anna Pavlovna Kalandadze, among others. She also wrote music for stage plays and for the cinema, especially for children's and animated films such as The Wedding of the Jays (1957) and Flea and Ant (1971). One of her best-known works is the Fantasy Concerto for piano and orchestra from 1956, which was recorded by Gjulnara Kawtaradze under Odissei Dimitriadi, among others. During the time of the Georgian SSR, she was awarded the honorary titles of Honored Artist (1960) and People's Artist (1976). In 1974 she received the Iakob Gogebashvili Medal, and, in 1981 the Shota Rustaveli State Prize. In the post-Soviet period, she was awarded the Iakob Gogebashvili Prize in 1994 and the Order of Honor of Georgia in 1997. In 2005, she was made an honorary citizen of the resort town of Borjomi and, in 2011, an honorary citizen of the capital Tbilisi. (German Wikipedia) Please take note that the audio AND sheet music ARE NOT mine. Feel free to change the video quality to a minimum of 480p for the best watching experience. Original audio: Tekla Kurashidze    • M.Davitashvili scherzo. Tekla Kurashidze (...