Hlib Pavlovych Taranov (* 15 June 1904, Kyiv - †25 January 1989, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian composer and music teacher, professor, Doctor of Arts (1944), Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1957), author of operas, symphonies, romances, etc.
He was born on 15 June 1904 in Kyiv. He received his initial musical knowledge from M. Chernov and R. Glière. In 1918-1920, he studied at the Petrograd Conservatory, and in 1920-1924 - at the Kyiv Conservatory. His teachers in composition were B. Liatoshynskyi, and in conducting - F. Blumenfeld and M. Malko. He completed his musical education in 1925 at the Mykola Lysenko Music and Drama Institute, where he taught theoretical disciplines and conducting (1925-1934). From 1934 he worked at the Kyiv Conservatory as an associate professor, from 1937 - professor, from 1939 - head of the Instrumentation Department in 1945-1974. In 1941-1950, he was a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory.
In 1956-1968, he was deputy chairman of the board of the Union of Composers of Ukraine.
He died on 25 January 1989 in Kyiv. He was buried in Kyiv at the Lukianivske Cemetery (cremation; plot 9, row 1, place 15).
Family.
He was married to Nataliia Chyzhova, whose father was a cavalier of St. George, her mother was a pianist, and the daughter of a professor at the University of Warsaw.
Works
Taranov is the author of:
opera "The Ice Massacre" (1937-1942),;
nine symphonies (in particular, "Anti-Fascist", "History of a City" based on the novel by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, 1963, "In Memory of S. Prokofiev", 1964, "Heroic", 1967, etc;)
suites on themes of Ukrainian folk songs (1949);
5 suites ("Ukrainian", 1950, "Altai", 1955, 1961, 1964, 1968);
symphonic poems ("David Guramishvili", 1955), scherzo poems ("The First Space", 1961, "New Express", 1977, etc.);
overtures ("Pamyatna", 1965, etc.);
a concerto in memory of G. Handel;
Concerto for balalaika and bandura with orchestra (1954);
two string quartets (1929, 1945), choirs, romances;
for piano: sonatas, suites, concert etudes, preludes and poems, 10 pieces for children;
for violin and piano: two pieces on Georgian themes;
for choir with and without piano accompaniment (based on the words of Pavlo Tychyna; 4 gal. songs);
music for films ("Ambrose Buchma", 1960);
editing and orchestration of the opera "Kateryna" by M. Arkas;
work "Course of Reading Scores" (1939).
