Soviet and Ukrainian composer and teacher. Honored Artist of Ukraine (1993). Member of the Union of Composers of Ukraine (since 1958).
Biography.
Participant of the Second World War. In 1952, he graduated from the Gnesin State Music and Pedagogical Institute in Moscow. He studied in the class of Tikhon Khrennykov. In 1949-1952 he worked at the Moscow Children's Art School.
Since 1952, Ihor Aseyev worked at the Odesa Conservatory (now the Odesa National Music Academy named after A. Nezhdanova), and since 1989 he has been an associate professor there. In 1952-1958, he also worked at the Odesa Music School.
In 1971-1976, Ihor Aseyev was the executive secretary, and since 1976 - the deputy chairman of the Odesa organization of the Union of Composers of Ukraine.
Works.
Ihor Aseyev is the author of works for organ (including a variation on the song about Oleksa Dovbush), chamber ensembles, choral and vocal cycles, cantatas, and chamber instrumental works.
In his work, he gravitated toward Soviet themes; he experimented with organ timbres and wrote a large number of pieces for the pedagogical repertoire. During his pedagogical work, he trained several generations of composers and musicologists.
Works
Among his works:
ballet The Legend of Larra based on Maxim Gorky (1971)
choreographic poem "Sonata-Waltz" (1976)
vocal symphony cantatas (1952, 1954)
for symphony orchestra - symphony "Dedication", poem "Three Palms" (1941), "Requiem for the Unknown Sailor" (1964), suite "Festival Meetings" (1979), symphony "And He Will Judge" (1994)
two concertos for piano and symphony orchestra (1948, 1957)
"Buff Concerto" for cello and orchestra (1974)
"Triptych in Memory of the Great Composer" for violin and orchestra, dedicated to Dmitriy Shostakovich (1977)
chamber and instrumental ensembles; works for organ - "Symphonic Fugues", Variations on a Song about Dovbush (both 1972)
a choral cycle based on the words of Ivan Franko
