Zakaria Paliashvili (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Zakaria Paliashvili was a composer from the nation of Georgia. He is regarded as a founder of Georgian classical music. As a young boy, he sang in a choir and learned to play the organ in the St. Mary Catholic Church of Kutaisi. His first tutor was his brother Ivan, who later became a conductor. Paliashvili moved to Tbilisi in 1887 as a chorister in the St. Mary Assumption Catholic Church of Tbilisi, eventually entering the music school there, studying French horn and composition.