Vadym Borysovych Homoliaka (born October 30, 1914, Kyiv - May 7, 1980, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian Soviet composer; winner of the Stalin Prize in 1951; Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR since 1958. The son of actor Borys Avsharov.
He was born on October 17 [30], 1914 in Kyiv. From 1939 to 1941, he studied at the Faculty of History and Theory of the Kyiv Conservatory, and from 1941 to 1942 at the Faculty of Composition of the Tashkent Conservatory. He took part in the Soviet-German war. A year after the end of the war, in 1946, he graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory (under Lev Revutsky). In 1946-1948 he was a teacher of theoretical subjects at the Kyiv Conservatory. Member of the CPSU since 1953. In 1951-1956, he was the secretary of the Union of Composers. From 1958 to 1976, he was the head of the Ukrainian Department of the USSR Museum Fund.
Vadym Homoliaka's grave
Vadym Homoliaka died on May 7, 1980 in Kyiv. He was buried at the Baikove Cemetery (plot No. 2).
Creative work
Author of seven concertos with orchestra (1949-1980), choruses, romances, suites, and songs.
Sketches
Transcarpathian sketches
Ballets
"The Cossacks" (1954)
"Sorochynska Fair" (1956)
"Black Gold" (1957)
"Puss in Boots" (1958)
"Oksana (1964)
"The Swan" (1973)
"Chasing Two Hares (1965)
Musical comedies
"Alyonushka" (1959)
"Nightingale in the police" (1964)
Music for films
"Blue Roads" (1947)
"Dawn over the Carpathians" (1948)
"Maksymko", written together with Igor Shamo (1953)
"The Commander of the Ship" (1954)
"Over the Cheremosh" (1954)
"Earth" (1954)
"Verkhovyna, My Mother" (1959, c/m)
"Oleksa Dovbush (1959)
"Chasing Two Hares (1961)
"My Joy" (1961)
"In a Dead Loop (1962)
"The Keys to Heaven (1964)
"Annie (1968)
"I dug a potion early on Sunday" (1968, film performance)
"Neither Feathers nor Feathers" (1973)
"The Wedding Wreath, or Ivan's Odyssey (1978, feature film)
"The Golden-Horned Deer (1979, animated film)
"To the Newcomers (1999, documentary; music is used)
