10/23. 03.1896 (Artanuji, Artvini province/Turkey/Batumi district) – 13.12. 1981 (Tbilisi)
Georgian musicologist, doctor in History of Art, professor, Honored Art worker of the Soviet Georgia, laureate of Z. Paliashvili premium.His works are dedicated to the issues of Georgian folk and professional music theory. He has collected and recorded large numbers of songs of mountainous regions of east and west Georgia.

Main works of Aslanishvili:

Narkvevebi kartuli khalkhuri simgherebis shesakheb (Essays on Georgian folk songs). (1954-1956). I and II volumes. Tbilisi: Khelovneba (in Georgian)
kartl-kakhuri khalkhuri simgherebis harmonia (Harmony of Kartl-kakheti folk choral songs). (1970). Tbilisi: Ganatleba (in Georgian)
Dzveli kartuli sanoto nishnebis sakitkhisatvis. sanoto nishnebis sistema dzvel kartul khelnatserebshi (X-XIIc). (For old Georgian notation marks. system of notation marks in old Georgian manuscripts). (1991). In collection: Tsurtsumia, Rusudan (editor).
Dzveli kartuli profesiuli musika. Istoriisa da teoriis sakitkhebi. 9Old Georgian professional music. Issues of history and theory). (pp. 22-62). Tbilisi: Tbilisi State Conservatoire (in Georgian)
Problemi muzikalnogo nasledia v Gruzii. (Problems of musical heritage of Georgia). (1956). In collection: “Muzikovedenie i muzikalnaia kritika respublik zakavkazia” (Musicology and musical critic of republic of South Caucasus) Moscow:State Musical Publishing House. (in Russian)