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Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

) was a Ukrainian

Ukrainians

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 composer.

He studied piano at the St Petersburg Conservatory and composition with Mikhail Sokolov, a pupil of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...

 1905-1908. From 1919–29 he lived in Zhytomyr

Zhytomyr

Zhytomyr is a city in the North of the western half of Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Zhytomyr Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Zhytomyr Raion...

, then Kharkiv

Kharkiv

Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...

 and Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

. From 1934 he taught at the Kiev Conservatory

Kiev Conservatory

The Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music is a Ukrainian state institution of higher music education. Its courses include postgraduate education.-History:...

. He died of kidney cancer

Kidney cancer

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 in 1938 shortly after receiving the Order of the Red Banner

Order of the Red Banner

The Soviet government of Russia established the Order of the Red Banner , a military decoration, on September 16, 1918 during the Russian Civil War...

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Selected works

Orchestral

• Heroic Overture (Героїчна увертюра) (1932)
• Moldavian Poem (Молдавська поема) (1937)

Concertante

• Violin Concerto (1919)
• Piano Concerto (1928)

Chamber music

• Sonata for cello and piano (1923)
• Sonata for violin and piano (1927)
• Trio (1927)

Piano

• 3 Piano Sonatas (1922, 1924, 1926–1929)
• 24 Compositions for Children (24 дитячі п'єси) (1936)
• Etudes
• Preludes

Film scores

• Last Port (Останній порт) (1934)

Songs, choruses, and folksong arrangements

Recordings

• Piano Music Vol.1 Eleven Etudes in the Form of Old Dances, Op. 19 Natalya Shkoda Toccata Classics
  Toccata Classics
  Toccata Classics is an independent British classic music label founded in 2005.The founder of Toccata Classics is Martin Anderson, a music journalist. The label was founded primarily to promote unrecorded works by lesser-known composers, including British composers...