Borys Yarovynskyi (11 March 1922, Poltava - 29 December 2000, Kharkiv) was a Ukrainian composer and conductor. Member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine. People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1977).
In 1942 he graduated from the Military Conducting Faculty of the Moscow Conservatory, in 1949 - from the Kharkiv Conservatory under D. Klebanov (previously he studied with S. Bohatyrev and M. Tits).
Since 1949, he has been a director of choral chapels and brass bands, a consultant and methodologist at the Kharkiv Regional House of Folk Art. He was the conductor of the Kharkiv Student Symphony Orchestra.
His works include
opera Lieutenant Schmidt (1970);
ballets "Seasons" (1959) and "The Poem about Marina" (1967);
musical comedy, oratorio "Small Land" (1980),
4 cantatas (1948-1982),
4 symphonies (1950-1980),
concertos for piano and orchestra,
"Thought of the Zaporozhian Sich" for voice and symphony orchestra,
string quartet,
choral works, and solo songs.
He is also the author of works for symphony orchestra, concertos for various instruments with orchestra, chamber instrumental ensembles, choirs, songs, music for drama theatre and films (about 50). Yarovynskyi also created editions and instrumentation for the operas The Fate of Man (1962), The Quiet Don (Hryhorii Melekhov, 1972) by I. Dzerzhynskyi and Bohdan Khmelnytskyi by K. Dankevych (for a new drama, edited by A. Korniichuk, 1966).
