Ivan Oleksandrovych Polomarenko (born October 31, 1876, Kyiv - died October 5, 1965) was a Ukrainian and Russian Soviet harpist and composer.
He was born on October 31, 1876 in Kyiv. At the age of 9, he was accepted to the Court Singing Chapel in St. Petersburg, where he received a musical education, sang in the choir, and learned to play the harp from Frantisek Schollar and Albert Tsabel. After graduating in 1897, he toured with the symphony orchestra of the Preobrazhensky Regiment in Paris, Helsingford, and Moscow.
From 1897 to 1917 he was a soloist with the Alexander Sheremetev Orchestra and also played in the Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Music Society. From 1919 he was a soloist in the orchestra of the Petrograd Maly Opera House.
He died on October 5, 1965. He was buried in St. Petersburg at the Bolsheokhtinsky Cemetery.
His works
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Works for harp: "Lullaby", fantasy "Accordion" (based on the opera "Ruslan and Lyudmila" by Mikhail Glinka), "Spiritual Poem of Kobzar" and others;
the first monograph on the harp in Russia, The Harp in the Past and Present (Leningrad, 1939).
