Mikhail Dmitrievich Tietz (8 March 1898, St. Petersburg - 1978, Kharkiv) was a composer, musicologist and teacher.
Biography.
Born in St. Petersburg, he graduated from the Kharkiv Music and Drama Institute (1924) and taught there; from 1935 he was a professor at the Kharkiv Conservatory.
Works: operas "Perekop" (1939), "Haidamaky" (1940-1941, in collaboration with Yulii Maitus and Vsevolod Rybalchenko); works for piano and orchestra (Poem-Concerto, 1946). Chamber trilogy: "Dramatic Poem", "Lyrical Poem" and "Heroic Poem" (1937-1940); 2 sonatas, 5 sonatas, polyphonic suite (1956) for piano; 2 string quartets (1949, 1956); choirs, solos, arrangements of folk songs, music for dramatic performances. Teaching materials: Harmony Manual (1953), On the Theme and Compositional Structure of Musical Works (1958-1959), On Modern Problems of Music Theory (1976).
Among his students were T. Kravtsov, L. Kolodub, M. Imkhanitskyi.
