Boris Solomonovich Zilbergleit (b. April 15, 1922, Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR - d. August 1995) was a Ukrainian conductor and composer, Honored Artist of Ukraine.
Biography.
Born into a family of intellectuals, he studied violin with Petro Stoliarsky. Participant of the Second World War. After being wounded, he was demobilized, and from 1943 he worked at the Karaganda Musical Theater. From 1945 he worked there as a conductor, in the summer he returned to Odesa, entered the conservatory and worked as a violinist in the Ukrainian Orchestra. At the conservatory, his mentor was Professor Kostiantyn Pyhrov, and at the theater, conductor and composer Vasyl Steiger (died 1946).
He worked for 50 years at the Vasylko Odesa Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater. Vasyl Vasylko gave him a ticket to creativity - he recognized his compositional talent and almost forced him to write music for the play The Governor of the Province by Lev Sheinin.
Before his 70th birthday, he underwent a major operation and learned about a terrible diagnosis, which, however, did not break him-he continued to live in creative work. In total, he wrote music for more than 120 theater productions. Among them:
"The Haidamaks",
"Generals in Skirts by Anuy,
"Chasing Two Hares" - by M. Starytsky,
"A Cossack Beyond the Danube" by Gulak-Artemovsky,
"Sailor's Silence" by Halych,
"Puntilla" by B. Brecht,
"Tevye the Milkman by Sholem Aleichem,
"I dug herbs early on Sunday" by O. Kobylianska,
"Shelmenko the Hairy Clerk" by H. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko - in the arrangement by Matviy Ocherovskyi.
Among his students is People's Artist of Ukraine Anatolii Dryzhenko.
He was married to actress Stanislava Shymanska.
