Igor Mikhailovich Luchenok (Belarusian: Iгар Міхайлавіч Лучанок, Ihar Michajlavič Lučanok, Russian: Игорь Михайлович Лученок; 6 August 1938 — 12 November 2018) was a

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of the Byelorussian SSR (and

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), and chairman of the Belarusian Union of Composers.

Biography

Luchenok worked in various genres — vocal-symphonic, chamber-instrumental, chamber-vocal, but most fruitfully — in song. From his works formed the repertoire of

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and many others.Композитор Игорь Лученок: Людей делю на две национальности: хорошие и плохие
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Ігар Лучанок: Я дапамагаю не толькі сябрам, але нават і ворагам
1938 births 2018 deaths Musicians from Minsk Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Republican Party of Labour and Justice politicians Members of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union Belarusian classical composers Soviet composers Soviet male composers Saint Petersburg Conservatory alumni Moscow Conservatory alumni People's Artists of the USSR People's Artists of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Recipients of the Byelorussian SSR State Prize Recipients of the Order of Francysk Skaryna Recipients of the Lenin Komsomol Prize Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples 20th-century male composers {{belarus-composer-stub