Composer Tamara Nikolayevna Vakhvakhishvili[1] (23 December 1893 – 1976)[2] was born in Warsaw, but lived much of her life in Georgia, where she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
From 1922 to 1926, she headed the music department of the Rustaveli Theatre in Tbilisi.
In 1927, Vakhvakhishvili studied composition with Paul Vidal at the Paris Conservatoire.
She met artist and set designer David Kakabadze while she was in Paris, and later worked with him at the Kutaisi-Batumi State Drama Theater.
In 1940, she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.