Matvii Yakymovych Hozenpud (8 (21) May 1903, Kyiv - 17 February 1961, Novosibirsk) was a composer, pianist, and teacher.
In 1921, he graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory (piano class of G. M. Beklemishev). He also studied with F. M. Blumenfeld and composition with R. M. Glière (1918-1920). In 1933, he became a diploma winner at the First All-Union Competition of Musicians-Performers in Moscow.
Since 1921 he was a teacher, and in 1935-1949 he was a professor at the Kyiv Conservatory (composition and piano classes). At the same time, in 1923-1949 and in 1953, he taught piano at the Kyiv Music School. In 1951, he moved to the Alma-Ata Conservatory, and in 1953-1961 he was a professor and head of the piano department at the Novosibirsk Conservatory.
Family.
Brother of musicologist Abram Hozenpud.
Works
Opera - Aladdin's Lamp (1947)
For orchestra - 3 symphonies (1938, 1939, 1946)
Epic poem (second edition of the previously written poem "Kotovsky", 1950)
4 concertos for piano and orchestra (1929-1953)
Concerto for violin (1947)
Ural Fantasy for piano and orchestra (1942)
4 quartets (1931-1955)
Quintet for string quartet and piano (1945)
Works for piano (including 4 sonatas)
About 50 romances and songs to the words of A. Pushkin, M. Lermontov, A. Mickiewicz, L. Ukrainka, M. Rylsky, P. Tychyna, J. Kolas, etc.
Choirs
