Leonid Hrabovsky

Leonid Hrabovsky, 2008

Leonid Oleksandrovych Hrabovsky (also Hrabovsky or Hrabovs'ky, Ukrainian: Леонід Олександрович Грабо́вський; Russian: Леони́д Алекса́ндрович Грабо́вский, Leonid Alexandrovitch Grabovsky) (born 28 January 1935) is a contemporary Ukrainian composer,[1] now living in the United States.[2]

Biography

Leonid studied economics at Kiev University (1951–1956), and from 1954 composition under Boris Lyatoshynsky and Lev Revutsky at Kiev Conservatory which he graduated in 1959. His diploma work "Four Ukrainian Songs" for chorus and orchestra (1959) which won first prize in an all-union competition. Shostakovich wrote about this: ‘the Ukrainian Songs by Hrabovsky pleased me immensely—his arrangements attracted me by the freedom of treatment and good choral writing’.

In the early 1960s Hrabovsky taught theory and composition at the Kiev Conservatory. He belonged to group of the so-called Kiev avant-garde (as well as Hodzyatsky, Huba, Silvestrov, Yevhen Stankovych and Zahortsev). Leonid was active as a composer, editor, and translator. He was one of the first Soviet composers to adopt minimalism.[3] His works include Dramatic, Orchestral, Chamber, Vocal Music and music for solo instruments. Hrabovsky’s works show Asian influences.

In 1981 he moved to Moscow. In 1987 he worked as an editor for "Sovetskaya muzïka" magazine. In 1990 he moved to the USA at the invitation of the Ukrainian Music Society. He settled in Brooklyn. Since 1990 to 1994 he was composer-in-residence at the Ukrainian Institute of America.

Works

Operas

Symphonic/orchestral

Chamber/instrumental

Vocal/choral

Music for guitar

By Hrabovsky

Notes and references

  1. Спутник музыканта—Енциклопедический карманный словарь-справочник ("Musical Companion—an encyclopedic pocket dictionary-handbook"), ред. А. Л. Островский «Музыка», Москва-Ленинград, 1964. (Russian)
  2. Роман Юсипей, "Останній з авангардистів", «Тиждень» 26 June 2009, ("The last of the avante-garde", Ukrainskyi Tyzhden). (Ukrainian)
  3. Lebrecht, Norman (1996). The Companion to 20th-Century Music. Da Capo Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-306-80734-3. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
  4. 20th Century Ukrainian Violin Music 1987 recording CYFP 2032 by Yevshan Corporation, Canada, Library of Congress Card no. 78-7509959

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