Arkadii Dmytrovych Filipenko (26 December 1911 (8 January 1912), Kyiv - 24 August 1983, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian composer. Father of the composer Vitalii Filipenko.
He was born on 26 December 1911 (8 January 1912) in Pushcha-Vodytsia (now part of Kyiv). In 1926, he entered a vocational school at the faculty of river transport. After graduation, he worked at a shipyard.
In 1939, he graduated from the Kyiv Conservatoire (class of Lev Revutskyi).
He took part in the German-Soviet war and served in a military orchestra. He has been a member of the CPSU since 1947.
In 1948-1952, he was the executive secretary, in 1954-1956 and since 1973 - the deputy chairman of the board of the Union of Composers of the Ukrainian SSR.
Since 1968 - Secretary of the Board of the Union of Composers of the USSR.
Since 1968 - President of the Music Section of the Ukrainian Society of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.
He died in Kyiv on 24 August 1983. He was buried at the Baikove Cemetery (plot No. 1).
Creative work
Works.
"Heroic Poem" and "Concert Waltz" for orchestra.
Seven string quartets.
Solos.
Numerous children's songs.
Children's opera "In the Green Garden" (1967, libretto by H. Demchenko).
Musical comedies: "The Naked President" (1967); "The One Hundred and First Wife of the Sultan" (1971).
Music for theatre and film performances, radio and television.
Two symphonies for string orchestra.
Filmography
"There is a guy" (1956)
"The Magic Night (1957)
"If You Love... (1959)
"Dreams Come True (1959)
"The Light in the Window (1960)
"Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (1961)
"Happy Birthday (1962)
"The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (1963)
"A Page of Life (1964)
"Why the Stars Smile (1966)
"The Child (1967)
"Barbara the Beauty, Long Braid" (1969)
"Golden Horns" (1972)
Honours.
Laureate of the Stalin Prize (for 1949). People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (since 1969).
He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, other orders and medals.
Honouring the memory
In 1988, a bronze memorial plaque (high relief, sculptor M. Alekseenko, architect H. Kyslyy) was installed in Kyiv, on the facade of the building at 3 Stanislavskoho Street, where the composer lived and worked in 1977-1983.
