Ukrainian and Russian musicologist and conductor of the Soviet era.
Biography.
In 1908-1911, he studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory - composition with Vasyl Kalafati, Mykola Sokolov, and Maximilian Steinberg, and score reading and conducting with Mykola Cherepnin. In 1915, he graduated from the Odesa Conservatory, where his teachers were F. V. Myronovych and Witold Maliszewski (composition).
He worked as a conductor of private opera companies in St. Petersburg and other Russian cities. 1918 - Director of the People's Conservatory in Yalta, lecturer at the People's University in Simferopol.
1918-1921 - taught at the Odesa Conservatory, vice-rector.
1921-1924 - director of the 4th Music College in Petrograd, executive editor of the journal "Weekly of the Petrograd State Academic Theaters" (1922-1923).
In 1923, he conducted the performance of The Diary of Satan, a staging by Hryhorii Ge based on the novel by Leonid Andreyev.
1924-1925 - worked as the rector of the Kharkiv Music and Drama Institute.
1925-1926 - Inspector of the Department of Art Education of the People's Commissariat of Education of the Ukrainian SSR.
In 1927-1929 - artistic director of the Ukrainian Radio Broadcasting.
He was a member of the Association of Revolutionary Composers of Ukraine.
1930-1934 - organizer and head of the music department of the V. H. Korolenko Library, since 1930 - lecturer at the Kharkiv Philharmonic.
Among his works:
"Sound and Musical Elements in the Works of Ukrainian Novelists," 1929
"Organics", 1930, Kharkiv,
"Russian Music of the XIX and XX Centuries, 1935.
