Ukrainian composer, singer (baritone), director. He is the author and performer of many popular songs, including "Cherry is Growing in Mama's Garden", "Come Home More Often", "Roses on the Platform", "Hello, My Dear", "Wait for Summer", "Waltz", "Red Rose", "Ukraine, Not Mine" and others.
Biography.
Anatoliy Horchynskyi was born on July 22, 1924 in Fastiv, Kyiv region.
He graduated from a music school in Kyiv, and in 1956 he graduated from the directing department of the Kyiv Theater Institute, where he studied with the famous Marian Krushelnytsky.
He worked as a director at the Kyiv Operetta Theater, in theaters in Lviv (1957-1968, in particular, he was the stage director of the National Theater named after Maria Zankovetska (1956-65), the chief director of the Theater for Young Audience (now the First Ukrainian Theater for Children and Youth, 1965-68), Khmelnytsky (1968-1973), Rivne (1973-1974), and Ternopil (1975-1992).
He directed 43 performances at the Taras Shevchenko Ternopil Drama Theater, all with his own music.
Anatoliy Horchynsky's creative work includes more than 350 original songs. Among them are "Mother's Cherry Tree Grows in the Garden", "Poet's Mistress", "Come Home More Often", "Hello, Stranger", "I'm Not the Third, I'm Not the Extra", "Red Rose", "Roses on the Platform", which are recognized as hits of the XX century. He directed 108 performances.
In 1994, Anatoliy Horchynsky was awarded the title of People's Artist of Ukraine.
August 13, 2004 - By the Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 885, he was awarded the Order of Merit III degree - For a significant personal contribution to the development of Ukrainian musical art, many years of fruitful creative activity
On January 6, 2007, Anatoliy Arkadiyovych passed away. He will forever be remembered as a famous composer, director, singer, and People's Artist of Ukraine.
Anatoliy Horchynskyi was buried on January 8 at the city cemetery near the village of Pidhorodne.
On July 22, 2007, the composer would have turned 83. Until his last days, according to his friends, he dreamed of staging another performance. "Whenever he was in the theater, he would talk about it...
His last performances: "How Our Grandfathers Went on a Bachelor Party" by V. Kanivets, "The Family of a Criminal" by Giacometti, "The Nun and the Tempter" by I. Togobochnyi, "The Black Sea People" by M. Lysenko, the opera "Beyond the Danube" by Gulak-Artemovsky, "Silva" by I. Kalman.
Honorary titles and state awards
People's Artist of Ukraine (June 22, 1994)
Order of Merit III degree (August 13, 2004)
