14/27.04. 1898/1900 (Tbilisi) – 24.12. 1987/86
Georgian musicologist-folklorist and pedagogue, doctor in History of Art, professor, Honored Art Worker. A founder and head of Georgian Folk Music faculty and Georgian Folk Music department. His main works are dedicated to Georgian folk music and old Georgian musical culture.
Main works of Chkhikvadze:
Kartveli khalkhis udzvelesi samusiko kultura (Ancient musical culture of Georgian people) (1948). Tbilisi: Musical fund of Georgia (in Georgian).
Kartuli khalkhuri sagundo kultura. (Georgian folk choral culture). (in Georgian), “sabchota khelovneba”, 1953, #4
Musikaluri sakravi ebani da misi raoba (musical instrument Ebani and its meaning/essence). (1955). in the collection: “Masalebi sakartvelos etnografiisatvis” (Materials for ethnography of Georgia). VIII (pp. 51-64). Tbilisi: Publishing House of Georgian Academy of Science
Cheshskii muzikant Ioseph Ratil v Gruzii. (Czech musician Joseph Ratil in Gerogia). “Sovetskaia muzika”. 1955, #8 (in Russian)
Gruzinskaia narodnaia mesnia i sobiratelnaia rabota (Georgian folk song and field work). 91956). in the collection: “Muzikovedenie and muzikalnaia kritika respublik Zakavkazia” (musicology and musical critic of the republics of South Caucasus). moscow: State musical Publishing House (in Russian)
Gruzinskie narodnie pesni (Georgian folk songs) (1956). Chkhikvadze, Grigorii (record, editor, preface and notes). Moscow: State Musical Publishing House (in Russian)
Drevnegruzinskaia muzikalnaia kultura (Musical culture of ancient Georgia). (1957). In collection: Tsulukidze, Anton (editor-in-chief).
Gruzinskaia muzikalnaia kultura. (Georgian musical culture). Moscow: State Musical Publishing House. (p. 7-20) (in Russian)
Otkhkhmiani acharuli shromis simgherebis taviseburebebis shesakheb (On pecularities of four-part Achara work songs). “Literaturuli Achara”, 1960, #1
Kartuli khalkhuri simghera (Georgian folk song). (1960). Chkhikvadze, Grigol (editor-compiler). I volume. Tbilisi: Sabchota Sakartvelo (in Georgian and Rassian)
kartuli khalkhuri sagundo khelovneba da misi tanamedrove mdgomareoba (Georgian folk choral art and its modern condition). (1960). In collection “Materials for Ethnography of Georgia”. Volume 11. Tbilisi:
Tanamedrove musikaluri folklori (Contemporary musical folklore). (1960). Tbilisi: Society for extending of Political and Scientific Knowledge (in Georgian)
Kartuli musikaluri folkloristikis istoriografia (Historiography of Georgian musical folkloristic). (1963). Materials for Georgian Ethnography, XII-XIII, pp.216-234 (with Russian resume)
Osnovnie tipi Gruzinskogo narodnogo mnogogolosia (Main Types of Georgian Polyphonic Singing). (1964). VII International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Moscow: Nauka – Publishing House (in Russian adn English) Doistorisheskaia Gruzinskaia kostnaia salamuri-pleita (PrehistoricGeorgian bone flute) (1965). Separatum. Budapest. Akademiai Kiado. / Europa et Hungaria. Congressus Ethnographikus in Hungaria. Budapest. 16-20. X. 1963 / (in Russian)
Musikis elementaruli teoria (Elementar theory of music). (1966). Tbilisi: Ganatleba
Grundtypen der Mehrstimmigkeit im grusinischen Volkslied. (1968). (Types of Georgian folk songs). Sonderdruck aus: Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft. Heft 3. Berlin (in German)
La cultur musicale populaire géorgienne. (1969). (Culture of Georgian musical folklore). Bedi Kartlisa. Revue de kartvélologie. P. XXVI. Paris. Almanac „Bedi Kartlisa” Paris (in Franch)
Musikaluri leksikoni (Musical Lexicon). (1971). Qifshidze, Alisa and Chkhikvadze, Grigol (compiler). Tbilisi: Ganatleba (in English-Russian-Georgian)
La music géorgienne. (1972). Bedi Kartlisa. Revue de kartvélologie. Paris. Kartuli musika (Georgian music). (1972). (in Georgian)
Gruzinski narodni pisni. Picennik. (1977). Киiв (in Ukrainian)
