Giya Kancheli. Giya Kancheli (Georgian: გია ყანჩელი; 10 August 1935 – 2 October 2019) was a Georgian composer.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kancheli lived first in Berlin, and from 1995 in Antwerp, where he became composer-in-residence for the Royal Flemish Philharmonic. He died in his home city, Tbilisi, at the age of 84 years.

Kancheli he is mostly known for his symphonic and orchestral works. He wrote seven symphonies and several other orchestra scores. In his symphonies, Kancheli's musical language typically consists of slow scraps of minor-mode melody against long, subdued, anguished string discords. Rodion Shchedrin referred to Kancheli as "an ascetic with the temperament of a maximalist; a restrained Vesuvius".

But he also wrote a wonderful piano cycle of 33 miniatures, which includes also the present one: Khanuma

The image before (and after) the music is by Dimitri Shevardnadze (unknown title), chosen for this video by D. T.

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