Victor Dolidze

Viktor Isidorovich Dolidze (ვიქტორ ისიდორეს ძე დოლიძე (1890–1933) - Soviet Georgian composer.

Victor Dolidze was born 18 (30) July, 1890 in the city of Kutaisi Province Ozurgeti in a poor peasant family.

He studied at Tiflis commercial school. In 1910 mandolin contest he won first prize.

After graduation went to the Kiev Commercial Institute, and concurrently began to work in a music school for violin and composition. In 1917 he graduated from college and returned to Georgia, what has devoted himself to music.

Viktor Dolidze is author of several operas, including the first Georgian comic opera (Opera-Buffo) Keto and Kote (with his own libretto based on the comedy Khanuma by Avksenty Tsagareli, 1919). In the literature, this work is often regarded as a musical comedy.

Viktor Dolidze died May 24, 1933 in Tiflis.^[1]

References

1. ^ Victor Dolidze's biography (Russian)

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Name	Dolidze, Viktor
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Date of birth	1890
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Date of death	1933
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