Lev Mykolaiovych Kolodub (May 1, 1930, Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR - February 23, 2019, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian Soviet composer, teacher, musician and public figure, professor at the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine. Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1973). People's Artist of Ukraine (1993). Laureate of the Shevchenko Prize (2010). President of the Association of Brass Musicians of Ukraine. Chairman of the Board of the Music Foundation of Ukraine (1988-1994) and the Kyiv Organization of the NSCU (1994-1999).
He was born on May 1, 1930 in Kyiv. The future composer's mother, Lidia Andriivna, was an opera singer, and his grandmother was a music teacher. He studied at the Kharkiv Secondary Specialized Music Boarding School as a clarinetist in the class of H. Rykov; later - at the Kharkiv Conservatory as a composer in the class of Professor M. Tits. After graduating from the conservatory in 1954, he worked in Kyiv.
In 1958-1960 he taught music theory at the Kyiv Theater Institute, and since 1966 he has been teaching at the Kyiv Conservatory.
Since 1977, he has been an associate professor, and since 1985 - a professor. In 1997, he headed the Department of Music and Information Technology, which was created at that time.
In 1994-1997, he was the head of the Kyiv City Organization of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine.
Since 1997, he was a corresponding member, and since 2005 - an academician of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine.
He died on February 23, 2019 in Kyiv at the age of 89.
Creative work
"...The composer's creative interests are wide and varied. He is attracted to musical and theatrical genres, symphonic music (the composer wrote more than 30 symphonic works) and chamber miniature (especially spectacular pieces for wind instruments)...
...The music of L. Kolodub perfectly combines high professionalism, the skill of a contemporary artist with the lucidity and democratic essence of images, as a result of which true art is born."
Musicologist T. Nevynchana, booklet "L. Kolodub".
List of works
Operas
"Thought of Turbai" (lib. O. Kolodub and V. Bychok (1951);
"Awakening" ("Dnipro Rapids") (libretto by H. Bodykin, 1976),
"Unfaithful Love" (libretto by V. Hrypych based on the play by A. Malyshko, 1985),
"The Poet (libretto by O. Belyatsky and Z. Sahalov, 1988);
Operettas
"Merry Girls" (libretto by I. Barabash, 1968) (in collaboration with Zh. Kolodub);
"Adventures on the Mississippi" (libretto by D. Kisin after M. Twain, 1971) (in collaboration with Zh. Kolodub);
"City of Lovers (libretto by D. Kisin, 1969),
"I Love You (libretto by D. Shevtsov based on the play by V. Rozov, 1975);
Ballets
"Eternal Flame" ("October Legend") (post. P. Virsky, 1967),
"Dawn Poem to music by V. Kosenko (libretto by V. Timofeev, 1973).
Concertos for horn and orchestra
2 for French horn (1972, 1980),
2 for trumpet (1982 - "5iopi ra5$ap", 1996),
2 for trombone (1986, 1997),
for 2 violins (1988),
2 for violin (1992, 2000),
2 for clarinet (1995, 2004),
for bassoon (1997),
for oboe (1997),
Concertino
for 2 French Horns (Ukrainian, 1982),
for tuba (Epic, 1986),
for 4 saxophones (1985),
for oboe (2001);
Music for films, cartoons, and performances
"Why the rooster has short pants",
"Marusya Bohuslavka (1966),
"And You, Friends, No Matter How You Sit..." (1972),
"The Merry Chicken",
"Umbrella on the hunt" (1973),
"Umbrella and Car");
Editing and instrumentation of
musical comedy by S. Zhdanov "Genoese Serenade" (1970),
A. Rudnytsky's opera Anna Yaroslavna - Queen of France (1995),
Piano Concerto by M. Tietz (2000),
"Ave Maria" by M. Skorulsky, and others.
For symphony orchestra, 12 symphonies
Symphony No. 1, 1958;
Symphony-Mood Symphony No. 2, "Shevchenko's Images", 1964;
Symphony No. 3, "Symphony in the Style of the Ukrainian Baroque", 1980;
Symphony No. 4, Symphony '86, 1986;
Symphony No. 5, "Pro memoria" (In memory of the victims of the terrible hardships in Ukraine), 1990;
Symphony No. 6, "C-dur and A. Schoenberg", 1999;
Symphony No. 7, "Metamorphosis", 2000 (2nd edition - 2003);
Symphony No. 8, "Pryluky" (for young performers), 2003;
Symphony No. 9, "New Sensations", 2004;
Symphony No. 10, "Based on Sketches of Young Years", 2005;
Symphony No. 11, "New Shores", 2007;
Symphony No. 12, "Zeitheist" ("Spirit of the Time");
poem "The Great Mason" (1953);
2 Ukrainian Carpathian Rhapsodies (1960, 1974);
Hutsul Pictures (1967), etc;
Other
chamber works for woodwind instruments and ensembles (over 50)
Trio for woodwinds, brass. Trio Sonata
for clarinet, violin and organ;
"Prefacione" for flute and percussion, etc.
concert works for brass band and brass ensembles (over 50)
"Ukrainian March" (2004)
for violin and flute - Poem (1971) and others,
for flute - Album for children (1981); "Treludos" (2002), etc,
for organ - Three pieces (2001),
pieces for various instruments;
for choir - cycle "Pryluky Songs" (1995), etc;
romances - a cycle based on Taras Shevchenko's lyrics (1963), a cycle "Confusion" based on Valentyna Antoniuk's lyrics (2004), etc;
Awards, prizes and titles
Winner of the Shevchenko Prize in 2010 for Symphony No. 9 "Sensilis moderno" ("Modern Feelings"), Symphony No. 10 "According to Sketches of Young Years", Symphony No. 11 "New Shores".
Levko Kolodub is a laureate of the Borys Liatoshynskyi, M. Verikivskyi, Marian and Ivanna Kots prizes and others.
He has been awarded medals and honorary awards: Ministry of Culture, Kyiv and Kharkiv, Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine (2005). He was awarded the title of People's Artist (1993) and the Order of Merit (2000).
