Ukrainian and Russian composer of the Soviet era, rector of the Odesa Conservatory, professor, holder of the Order of the Badge of Honor.
From 1924 to 1928, he studied at the Voronezh Music College, majoring in double bass.
In 1932, he graduated from the Odesa Music and Drama Institute, where he studied composition with P. Molchanov.
In 1934-1941, he worked as an assistant to Professor M. Vilinsky at the Department of Composition. Until July 1941, he was the executive secretary of the Odesa Board of the Union of Composers of the Ukrainian SSR.
He participated in the Second World War, commanded an artillery platoon, and returned with a serious injury.
Since 1949, he taught at the Odesa Conservatory.
In 1951-1962, he was the rector of the Odesa Conservatory.
Since 1952, he worked as the head of the Department of Music History.
In 1952-1964, he was the chairman of the board of the Odesa branch of the Union of Composers of the Ukrainian SSR.
He wrote memoirs about his teacher Vilinsky.
Among his students were Oleksandr Rovenko and Heorhii Viranovskyi.
Works by him:
1954 - "Musical relations between Ukraine and Russia",
1957 - "History of the Odesa Conservatory",
1968 - textbook "One-Hundredth Triads and Tonalities", Kyiv,
"M. Leontovych and the Ukrainian Folk Song".
Among his musical works:
1930 - String Quartet No. 1,
1932 - orchestral suite,
1932 - String Quartet 2,
1941 - String Quartet 3,
1946 - String Quartet 4 ("Liberated Moldova"),
for woodwind instruments
1969 - "Quartet",
1969 - "Folk Dance",
for piano
1928 - "Five Preludes",
1934 - "Concert Waltz",
1946 - "Three Humoresques",
1949 - "Album for Youth, Collection One",
1967 - "Album for Youth, Collection Two",
1970 - four canons,
1970 - five pieces,
for violin and piano - Sonata, 1947
for viola and piano - Romance, 1948.
choruses to the words of M. Lermontov, I. Franko, D. Bednyi, A. Malyshko,
romances to the words of T. Shevchenko, M. Rylsky, and Jakub Kolas,
music for dramatic performances, films,
arrangements of Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian, and Moldovan folk songs,
some parts of Orthodox worship (not published): "The Grace of Peace at the Liturgy of St. Basil the Great of Kyiv", "The Eight Degrees of the Significant Chant".
