Sound · Music
Born Jul 27, 1924 · Tbilisi, Georgia SSR, USSR
Active 1957–1989 · Awards: USSR State Prize, Order of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution, People's Artist of the USSR, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Lenin Prize, People's artist of the Georgian SSR, Stalin Prize, 3rd degree
Otar Vasilisdze Taktakishvili was a prominent Georgian composer, teacher, conductor, and musicologist of the Soviet period.