Ukrainian, Soviet composer. Honored Artist of Ukraine. People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1975). Laureate of the National Award named after T. G. Shevchenko, awards named after M. Ostrovsky. Awarded the "Badge of Honor" order, medals. Honorary citizen of the city of Kyiv.
Biographical data
He was born in Kyiv in a Jewish family, his birth name is Isai Naumovich Shamo. Father, Naum Mykhailovych Shamo, was a doctor's assistant, mother - Maria Isayivna - a housewife, they lived in house No. 33 on Borohova Street (now Shota Rustaveli Street). He graduated from Lysenko's ten-year music school — the first specialized school in Ukraine. He graduated from the Second Medical School as a paramedic, and at the beginning of 1942, at the age of 16, he volunteered for the front. He went through the whole war, was wounded.
After demobilization in 1946, Ihor Shamo entered the Kyiv Conservatory, which he graduated with honors in 1951, the composition faculty in the class of Professor Borys Lyatoshynskyi. In his third year at the conservatory, he was accepted into the Union of Composers of Ukraine. During his studies, he worked in the amateur theater of the "Arsenal" plant, where he made musical arrangements for performances. At the graduation concert, he performed his "Concert-Ballad" on the piano accompanied by a symphony orchestra, which immediately entered the concert life, was performed in an author's performance in Kyiv, and then in Moscow.
Ihor Shamo lived in Kyiv until the end of his life. He is the author of symphonies, piano works, film scores and more than 300 songs. For many years he cooperated with the Ukrainian poet Dmytro Lutsenko, with whom he co-authored the songs "My Kyiv", "Don't Make Noise, Kalynonko", "Autumn Gold", "Song of Happiness" and many others. Young Shamo's idols were I. Bach, R. Schuman, and S. Rachmaninov. He liked Schumann's impetuosity and impulsiveness, Rachmaninoff's breadth and harmonic richness, Mussorgsky's ascetic austerity, hidden strength.
In 1976, he became a laureate of the T.G. Shevchenko State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR.
Ihor Shamo died on August 17, 1982 from stomach cancer. Buried at Baikovo cemetery in Kyiv (plot No. 50).
Family
He was married to Lyudmila Shamo (Bolshakova)
The brother is Yevhen Naumovich Shamo, a doctor at the Kyiv Vodnyk Hospital
The son Yuriy Shamo (1947-2015) is a composer who lived in Germany
Tamara Shamo's daughter is actively involved in the preservation and popularization of the composer's creative heritage
The granddaughter of the composer, Iryna Borodianska, is a singer
Nephew Volodymyr Shamo is a pianist
Great-nephew Maksym Shamo is a pianist
Writings
"Russian Fantasy" is the first work. Romance for cello and piano
Symphonic (3 symphonies), concerto for flute and strings (1977), concerto for accordion and string orchestra (1981), chamber works (quartets, pieces for bandura, etc.), folk opera "Yatranski igri" (libretto by V. Yukhimovych), cantatas .
songs to the words of Dmytro Lutsenko, Andrii Malyshko, Teren Masenko, L. Smirnov, R. Rozhdestvenskyi, O. Kolomiyets, A. Slisarenko, Platon Voronek, Oleksandr Vrataryov, L. Kovalchuk, Lyubov Zabashta, Valery Kurinskyi, Yuriy Rybchynskyi, Igor Lazarevskyi, Andrii Demydenko...(popular: "My Kiev", "Ballad of Trumpeters", "Song about undiscovered islands", "Comrade Song");
10 solo songs to words by Taras Shevchenko (1959);
3 piano cycles: "Tarasov Dumas" (from 6 novellas) (1960), "Ukrainian Suite", "Hutsul Watercolors", "Fantastic March" for piano (1946), "Preludes, "Humoreska". 2 toccatas, "Variations- fantasy" (1947, piano trio).
music for up to 40 films, radio plays ("The Witch" by Shevchenko, 1949, and "Tarasovy shlachy") and up to 40 plays (in the theater named after I. Franko, the theater named after L. Ukrainka...), "At Dawn" in the Kyiv Theater of a young viewer (1964).
Movies:
"Dnipro" (1949, co-edited),
"Maximko" (1953, in co-authorship),
"Ship commander" (1954, co-authored),
"The Sea is Calling" (1955),
"Andreyesh",
"Sailor Chizhik" (1955),
"Mount, my dawn" (1957),
"Malva" (1957),
"NP. An extraordinary event" (2 s),
"At a high price" (1959),
"Far from the Motherland" (1960),
"Forest Song" (1961),
"Hello, Gnat!",
"A flower on a stone" (1962),
"Elena's Bay",
"Rockets Don't Take Off" (1964),
"They were known only by face" (1966),
"Know Yourself" (1971, t/f),
"The Night Before Dawn",
"Black Captain" (1973),
"How steel was hardened" (1973, t/f, 6 s),
"Tachanka from the South" (1977),
"From Bug to Vistula" (1980),
as well as a number of cartoons and documentaries.
Memorial plaque
Memory
Igor Shamo's tombstone at Baikovo cemetery in Kyiv
At the house on the street A memorial plaque has been installed at 8 Kost'olniy Street in Kyiv, where the composer lived.
Kyiv Children's Music School No. 7 was named after Igor Shamo.
In September 2015, the Kyiv City State Administration held a public discussion on the renaming of Oleksiy Davydov Boulevard to Igor Shamo Boulevard. The majority of Kyivans (160 against 59) supported the renaming. In February 2016, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko issued an order to rename the boulevard.
Movies:
"Songs of Igor Shamo" (K. 1984, directed by R. Yefimenko).
"Songs of the Heart" (documentary film. K. 2004, directed by Yu. Lazarevska).
Documentary film "IgoShamo town. Postlude" (2014, directed by Yu. Lazarevska). The tape became a laureate of the Ivan Mykolaichuk "Kyiv" Art Prize in 2015.
"Ihor Shamo. Kiev is mine!" (2015)
