Ukrainian composer and pianist.
Life and career
He was born into the family of a railroad official, a native of the Kyiv province. After graduating from a gymnasium in Kursk, he entered the Law Faculty of Moscow University and the Moscow Conservatory. He taught music to Tsarevich Alexei (1915-1916). After graduating from the university (1916), he was drafted into the army and participated in the First World War. In 1918-1920 he served in Denikin's army.
Later he continued his studies with Ippolitov-Ivanov and Taneev, graduating from the conservatory in 1923. He lived in Ryazan. In the mid-1920s, he began performing as a pianist, gave many solo concerts, and performed with the famous bassist Hryhorii Pirogov.
In 1926, he was arrested and imprisoned in a Ryazan prison, and everything written by the composer by that time was destroyed[4]. In 1929, he received permission to live and work in Moscow, from 1930 he was listed as a staff composer of the All-Union Radio, and was listed in the ASM creative association (liquidated in 1932). During this period, he composed the opera Blood and Coal (not preserved), the symphony Foundation, cycles of piano miniatures Germs of Lyrics (1928), Notebook of Miniatures (1929), Porcelain Cups (1932), Lyrical Symphony (1932), and a vocal cycle for bass Grotesque of Ilya Selvinsky (1931). He was criticized for his formalism.
In 1934, he was exiled to Yaroslavl and studied at the GITIS by correspondence. In March 1937, he was arrested in Yaroslavl and imprisoned for 6 years without the right to correspond. In July 1939 he was released due to the closure of the case. In early 1940 he returned to Yaroslavl.
At the beginning of the Second World War, he was evacuated with his family to the city of Merk (Kazakhstan), then to Krasnodar. In 1945 he lived in Zhytomyr, and in 1946-1948 he returned to Yaroslavl. He was a delegate to the first Congress of Soviet Composers (1948). From 1949 until the end of his life he lived in Lviv and worked at the conservatory. He performed as a pianist with solo concerts in Lviv, Drohobych, and Kolomyia. In addition to his piano works, he composed concertos for violin and domra, a symphony in C minor, a choral suite, and a number of other works.
He died in Lviv and was buried on the 64th field of Lychakiv Cemetery.
Sons.
Vsevolod Zaderatsky (1935) - musicologist, professor at the Moscow Conservatory.
Rostyslav Vsevolodovych Zaderatskyi - after the Russian Revolution (1917), he and his mother left for France. He participated in the French-German War of 1939-1940 and was imprisoned in a German concentration camp.
Works.
Symphonic and vocal-symphonic
Opera The Widow of Valencia (after Lope de Vega, 1934)
Symphony (1952)
Two chamber symphonies (1931, 1932)
Two piano concertos (orchestrated by Myroslav Skoryk and Bohdana Frolyak),
For piano
"24 Preludes" (1933-1934)
"24 Preludes and Fugues" (1937)
5 program cycles
2 children's piano concertos on Ukrainian themes
For choir
"To the Kosenkos" (1948)
Suite for folk songs
Vocal works
"De profundis" (1940)
"Poem about a Soldier" (1946)
Other works
"Ukrainian Concert" for domra (1948)
