ONe of his last major works, that on the reign of the last king of Georgia, George XII (1798-1800), was published posthumously in the Georgian magazine Iveria in 1880.
In January 1929 Maglakelidze, together with his fellow Georgian Giorgi Shvangiradze founded the Iveria society, which was soon joined by the Armenian émigrés, and in June it was renamed into the Caucasian Society.
In 1895, at the age of 17, Stalin's work impressed the noted poet Ilia Chavchavadze, who published five of them in his journal, Iveria, attributed to the pseudonym Soselo.
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He led the popular musical group Iveria since its founding in 1968 through the mainstream success in the 1970s and 1980s until his death of a long and severe disease in Germany in 2009.
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Basilaia was a principal composer and an art manager for Iveria which quickly gained popularity for its fusion of pop, rock and jazz with traditional Georgian music and attained to Soviet-wide fame with its musicals The Wedding of Jays (1980) and The Argonauts (1982).