Mikael Tariverdiev

Composer Mikael Tariverdiev was born on August 15, 1931, in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, the U.S.S.R. He studied at the prestigious Gnesins Music School in Moscow under the renowned Soviet composer Aram Khachaturian. Upon his graduation from that school in 1957, Tariverdiev went on to compose numerous vocal chamber pieces that were performed by the famous singer Zara Dolukhanova. Soon, he also started to write film scores and through his film music, he became known to millions of people in the former Soviet Union. Overall, he scored 132 films, of which The Seventeen Moments o...