Eugeniusz Ryb (1 July 1859, Warsaw - 15 March 1924, ibid.) was a Ukrainian composer, violinist and conductor of Polish origin.
Biography.
He graduated from the Warsaw Institute of Music with a degree in violin from Apolinar Kontsky. Then he entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he graduated from the violin class of Leopold Auer in 1883 and the composition theory class of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1885. Since 1885, he has been teaching composition theory at the Kyiv Music School of the Kyiv branch of the Imperial Russian Music Society. Among his students were R. Glier, K. Stetsenko, O. Koshyts, and B. Levitsky. From 1913 to 1919 he was a professor at the Kyiv Conservatory. He played in a string quartet that performed annually in two series of chamber music concerts. He conducted symphony concerts of the Russian Music Society. He has compiled a number of music theory textbooks. He is the author of chamber and instrumental works.
Selected works
The Prisoner, opera
Night in the Ukraine, symphonic picture
Ten Mazurkas for piano (1917)
