Ukrainian Soviet composer, choral conductor and teacher; member of the Union of Composers of Ukraine.
Biography.
He was born on March 16, 1881 in Poltava (now Ukraine). In 1916 he graduated from the Petrograd Conservatory (composition class of Mykola Sokolov and Jazeps Vitols). During 1904-1905 in Milan, he took singing lessons from A. Brogi.
From 1906 he worked as a conductor of opera houses and symphony orchestras. In 1932-1934, he was a lecturer at the Kharkiv Music and Drama Institute, and at the same time he was the head of the musical department of the Jewish Theater. From 1934, with a break, he taught at the Kyiv Conservatory, and was its professor in 1940-1952. In 1941-1943, he was a choirmaster at the House of Culture in Ulyanovsk, and head of the musical department of the theater in Nukus, Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
He died in Kyiv on January 16, 1959.
His works include
children's operas;
"The Snow House" (1939);
"The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats (1939; 2nd edition - 1954);
"The Mitten" (1940);
"The Lame Duck (1946);
for soloist, choir and symphony orchestra or piano - "Atlant" ("Into battle, dzhigit!", 1942, words by A. Bykadorov);
for brass band - two marches (1952);
for string quartet - Quartet (1925), Ukrainian Dance (1947);
for piano - Sonata (1925), Scherzo (1948), 2 suites (1952, 1958), Variations on a Ukrainian Folk Song (1953);
choirs, children's songs, arrangements of folk songs;
music for radio performances.
