Borys Mykolaiovych Buyevskyi (born 7 June 1935, Kryvyi Rih) is a Soviet and Ukrainian composer, author of 10 symphonies, ballets Song of the Blue Sea (1965) and Ustym Karmeliuk (1980), music for a cartoon about Cossacks and many pop songs popular in the 1960s and 1970s: "There is a Fog in the Valley", "My Love", "Carpathian Night", "Song of Loyalty", "Give Me Spring", etc.
Biography
He graduated from the Music School at the Leningrad Conservatory and the Kharkiv Conservatory (1959, composition class of Professor Dmytro Klebanov).
In 1959-1961 he taught at the Donetsk Music College.
He is the author of 10 symphonies, ballets "Song of the Blue Sea" (1965; 1st performance - 1966, Odesa) and "Ustym Karmeliuk" (3 concerts for strings, 1980), vocal cycles based on poems by W. Shakespeare, P. Verlaine, R. Burns, more than 100 songs, music for dramatic performances, overtures, concerts; vocal and symphonic oratorio "Travels of the Heart" based on the words of Lina Kostenko and Tamara Kolomiets (1964).
He is the author of music for many feature films, animated films and documentaries.
Member of the Union of Composers of Ukraine since 1961.
In 1960-1993 he lived in Kyiv, since 1993 he has been living in Belgium.
Works
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Pop songs
And they fly (lyrics by Stanislav Repyakh) - Mykola Kondratyuk
Everything is with me (lyrics by Mykola Vingranovsky) - Valentina Kuprina
Carpathian night (lyrics by Stepan Pushyk) - VIA "Korabeli"
My love (lyrics by Valentyna Malyshko) - Diana Petrynenko
There is a fog in the valley (lyrics by Vasyl Didenko) - Mykola Kondratiuk
A song about loyalty (lyrics by Mykhailo Sirenko) - Kostyantyn Ognevyi
Give me spring (lyrics by Serhiy Yuzyshyn) - Valentina Kuprina
It became quiet (lyrics by Mykola Kabaliuk) - Valentina Kuprina
The river of bells flows (lyrics by K. Drok) - Mykola Kondratyuk
Filmography
"The Blown Up Dawn (1965, Kyivnaukfilm, directed by Felix Sobolev)
"Fireplace Painting (1967, Kyiv Scientific Film, directed by Hryhoriy Kokhan)
"The Language of Animals (1967, popular science film, Kyivnaukfilm, co-directed by Hryhorii Kokhan)
"Soldiers (1977, feature film, Odesa Film Studio)
Music for feature films of the Dovzhenko Film Studio:
"Extra Bread" (1966),
"The Tenth Step (1967)
"Frost was falling" (1969)
"Sofia Hrushko (1971)
"The Merry Frogmen (1971)
"Quiet Banks (1972)
"The Address of Your Home (1972)
"Fire (1973)
"Anna and the Commander (1974)
"The White Circle (1974)
"The Canal (1975)
"If You Go... (1977)
"The Rebel Orion (1978)
Music for animated films:
"The Stork" (1964)
"The Green Button (1965)
"The Evil Egg Breaker", "The Bear and the One Who Lives in the River" (1966)
"A Song in the Woods, The Legend of the Flaming Heart, Anti-aircraft Gun (1967)
"Scarecrow (animated film) (1968)
"Mars XX, The Whale and the Cat (1969)
"The Boy and the Cloud, The Crane, How the Cossacks Played Football (1970)
"Scary, Grey, Shaggy", "The Amazing Whale", "The Straw Bull", "About the Striped Elephant" (1971)
"About a Pig Who Knew How to Play Checkers, The Hippo and the Sun, How Women Sold Men (1972)
"Warm Bread (1973)
"Salute (1975)
"How Men Taught Women a Lesson, Forest Song (1976)
"Why the Donkey Has Long Ears (1977)
"Night Captains, The Leader, How the Cossacks Became Olympians (1978)
"The Peace Pipe, The Fern Flower (1979)
"Once I Came Home (1981), etc.
Family
Son - Taras Buievskyi (b. 23 June 1957, Kharkiv) - composer, flutist, lives in Moscow.
