Oleksii Panteleimonovych Riabov (*5 (17) March 1899, Kharkiv - †18 December 1955, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian composer, violinist and conductor, Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1951).
Biography
He was born on 5 (17 March) 1899 in Kharkiv. In 1918, he graduated from the Kharkiv Conservatory. From 1919, he worked as a concert violinist and conductor in various cities of the USSR.
In 1929-1941, he was the conductor of the First State Ukrainian Musical Comedy. Productions: "Gypsy Baron", "Cossack Beyond the Danube", "Metis", "Natalka-Poltavka", "Oksana", "Three Quarters of a Man", "Prohibition". Specially for the Kharkiv Theatre of Musical Comedy, he composed music for the performances "Friendly Hill", "Three Quarters of a Man", "Prohibition", "Sorochynska Fair", "Wedding in Malynivka", "May Night", "Columbine".
Since 1941, he was the conductor of the Kyiv Musical Comedy Theatre, on whose building at 53 Velyka Vasylkivska Street a memorial plaque was installed.
He died on 18 December 1955. He was buried in Kyiv at the Baikove Cemetery.
Works.
Author of more than 20 operettas and musical comedies. Among others:
"Screen Stars",
"May Night,
"Sorochynska Fair (1936),
"The Dnipro is Noisy,
"A Wonderful Land (1950),
"Red Viburnum (1954),
The most popular is The Wedding in Malynivka (1938).
In addition, he composed a violin concerto, a symphony, and a string quartet.
