Oleksandr Leontiyovych Horilyi (in Russian sources - Gorelov; September 14, 1863, Mali Shcherbynychi, Chernihiv region (now Zlynkiv district, Bryansk region) - after 1937) was a Ukrainian conductor, composer, musician and public figure.
He graduated simultaneously from the Medical Faculty of Moscow University (1893) and the Moscow Conservatory. He founded a branch of the RMT in Astrakhan, with music classes (later a music school, he was its director until 1904). Organizer and conductor of the Saratov Symphony Orchestra (1905-1907). One of the founders (1918) and conductor of the State Symphony Orchestra in Kyiv. He toured abroad. He was repressed.
Oleksandr Horilyi was an author of musical compositions:
Stage works:
opera "Viy" (1897),
operetta "Good Neighbors" (1891);
vocal and symphonic works:
Cantata to the 35th anniversary of Mykola Lysenko's creative activity (1903);
for symphony orchestra
3 symphonies (1893, 1898, 1905);
chamber and instrumental works
Piano Trio (1900),
2 string quartets (1894, 1901);
Vocal and choral works:
choirs;
romances - "Like a Storm in the Woods" (lyrics by M. Starytsky), etc;
2 Liturgies.
Other.
He orchestrated S. Hulak-Artemovsky's opera "Cossack Beyond the Danube" for M. Sadovsky's theater company, wrote an introductory aria "Come, come" (1902), and more.
