Yakiv Samiylovych Fayntukh (born 19 December 1892, Berdychiv - 23 July 1974, Odesa) was a Ukrainian Soviet composer; member of the Union of Composers of the USSR.
Biography.
He was born on 7 [19] December 1892 in the city of Berdychiv (now Zhytomyr region, Ukraine). During the First World War, from 1914 to 1917, he served in the Russian Imperial Army. Since 1917, he has been a theatre composer. From 1919 to 1922, he served in the Red Army.
In 1930, he graduated from the Odesa Conservatoire with a degree in composition (teachers: V. Zolotaryov, P. Molchanov). In 1933, he also graduated from the radio faculty. Since 1935, he has been a teacher at the Conservatory and Music School in Odesa.
In 1936-1941, he was a member of the board, in 1932-1941 and 1945-1952 - executive secretary of the Odesa branch of the USSR Composers' Union.
During the Second World War, from 1941 to 1945, he was a composer for the Uzbek and Russian theatres in Samarkand. He was the head of the branch of the Composers' Union of the Uzbek SSR.
After the war, he returned to Odesa, where he continued to compose music. He died in Odesa on 23 July 1974 and was buried in Odesa.
His works include
radio opera "Krasna Presnya" (1933);
operettas - "Rosita", "Girls from the Harem", "Tamilla" (1923-1929);
for soloists, chorus and symphony orchestra - cantata "The Commander" (words by A. Malyshko, 1947), "Suite" (words by T. Shevchenko, 1947);
for choir and symphony orchestra - "Uzbekistan" (1944);
for symphony orchestra - "Overture" (1928), suites: "October" (1931), "On Jewish Folk Themes" (1936), "On Moldavian Folk Themes" (1938), "Friendship of Peoples" (1948), "On Transcarpathian Folk Themes" (1950), "Symphonic Poem on Russian and Ukrainian Themes" (1959), "Suite" (1967);
for violin and orchestra - "Concerto" (1951);
for string quartet - Quartets: I (1928), II (1945), Suite (1927);
for chorus - "In Memory of Lenin" (1924), to the words of Taras Shevchenko (1940), to the words of P. Voronko (1952);
romances to the words of A. Pushkin (1934);
songs for schools and clubs (1929);
music for performances (more than 20);
music for films, including Woman of the Country of the Soviets (1939), Collective Farms of Ukraine (1939);
arrangements of folk songs: 12 Moldovan (1938), 25 Ukrainian (1945), Uzbek (1944).
