29. 01. 1929.
In 1959 graduated from the faculty of Piano at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire. In 1961 he graduated from the faculty of Musicology (Music Theory) at the Moscow Conservatoire. In 1965-1985 he was a lecturer at the Department of the Music Theory at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Until 2007 he worked as a researcher at the Department of Georgian Folklore. Over the last years he has been working on the issues of the mode-intonation structure of various dialects of Georgian multipart songs.

Gogotishvili’s main works:
Polifoniuri guruli simgheris shesakheb (On the polyphonous Gurian song). (1988). In the collection: Gabunia, Nodar; Tsurtsumia, Rusudan and others (editorial board). Kartuli musikis polifoniis sakitkhebi (Issues of the polyphony of Georgian music): 77-99. Tbilisi. Tbilisi State Conservatoire (in Georgian)
Svanuri sagundo mravalkhmianobis fakturuli taviseburebebis sakitkhisatvis (On the issue of structural peculiarities of Svan choral polyphony). (1993-1994). In the collection: Tsurtsumia, Rusudan (editor). Issues of Musicology. Scientific works: 3-39. Tbilisi. Tbilisi State Conservatoire (in Georgian)
Megruli lirikuli simgheris kilo-intonatsiuri tsqobis taviseburebebis shesakheb(On the mode-intonation peculiarities of Megrelia folk songs). (2000). In the collection: Tsurtsumia, Rusudan (editor). Khalkhuri mravalkhmianobis problemebi (Issues of Georgian polyphony): 66-97. Proceedings from the International Conference dedicated to the 80th anniversaruy from establishment of Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Tbilisi: Tbilisi State Conservatoire (in Georgian, with English resume)
Mravalkhmiani kartuli khalkhuri simgherebis kilouri tsqobis zogierti taviseburebis shesakheb (On some peculiarities of the mode structure of multipart Georgian folk songs). In the collection: Tsurtsumia, Rusudan (editor). Sasuliero da saero musikis mravalkhmianobis problemebi (Issues of polyphony sacred and secular music): 233-259. Proceedings from the international scientific conference dedicated to the 2000th anniversary from the birth of Christ and the 3000th anniversary from formation of Georgian State (in Gerogian, with English resume)
Kartl-Kakhuri grdzeli sufruli simgherebis kilo-intonatsiuri tsqobis zogierti taviseburebis shesakheb (On some peculiarities of mode-intonation structure of kartl-Kakheti extended table songs (2003). Tsurtsumia, Rusudan and Jordania, Joseph (editors). The First International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony: 306-323. Tbilisi: International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony (in Georgian and English languages)
Kartul khalkhur sasimghero mravalkhmianobashi gabatonebuli monotonikuri (araoktavuri) kilos avtentikuri da plagaluri sakheobebis shessakheb (On authentic and plagal varieties of monotonic (non-octav) mode dominating in Georgian folk singing polyphony). (2005). Tsurtsumia, Rusudan and Jornania, Joseph (editors). The Second International Polyphony on Traditional Polyphony: 209-226. Tbilisi: International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony of the Tbilisi V. Sarajishvili State Conservatoire: LTD Chokhi (in Georgian and English languages)
Pirveli sakhis “Kartuli kadansis” kilo-intonatsiuri tsqobis taviseburebebi (Peculiarities of mode-intonation structure of the “Georgian cadence” of the first type). (2008). Tsurtsumia, Rusudan and Jordania, Joseph (editors). The Third International Symposium on Traditional Symposium: 269-281. Tbilisi: International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony of the Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Tbilisi: Tbilisi State Conservatoire (in Georgian and English languages)
Kvartuli kadansis taviseburebani mravalkhmian kartl-kakhur simgherebshi (Peculiarities of the Fourth cadence in multipart Kartl-Kakheti songs). (2009).The Fourth International Symposium on Traditional Symposium. Tbilisi: International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony of the Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Tbilisi: Tbilisi State Conservatoire (in Georgian and English languages)