Eteri Mgaloblishvili was a Georgian Soviet organist, pianist, and music teacher. She was born on August 14, 1932, in Tiflis, Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union. She became the founder of the national professional organ school in Georgia and was named Honored Artist of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1967.
In 1956 she graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, studying piano and organ. She then completed postgraduate study at the same institution in 1961 in piano and in 1962 in organ. Her teachers were Abram Shatskes and Leonid Roizman. She also undertook further training in Germany and Belgium.
From 1965 she taught at the Tbilisi Conservatory. After an organ by the well-known German firm Alexander Schuke was installed in the Conservatory's Great Hall in 1964, Mgaloblishvili headed the conservatory's organ class. She became a professor in 1990, and her students included G. Konyaev and N. Rukhadze.
Mgaloblishvili served on the juries of international Bach competitions in Leipzig, Moscow, Vilnius, Gotha, and Chisinau. She was also one of the organizers of the organ festival in Pitsunda.
She died on June 3, 2020.