Vitaliy Dmytrovych Kyreyko (23 December 192619 October 2016) was a Ukrainian

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

. He graduated from the

Kyiv Conservatory The Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music (), formerly Kyiv Conservatory, is a national music tertiary academy in Kyiv, Ukraine. Its courses include postgraduate education. History The Kyiv Conservatory was founded on 3 November 1913 at ...

with a degree in composition from

L. Revutsky Levko Mykolaiovych Revutsky (; – 30 March 1977) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer, pedagogue, and public figure. Amongst his students at the Lysenko Music Institute were the composers Arkady Filippenko and Valentyn Silvestrov. Biography E ...

(1944-1949), where he also completed his postgraduate studies (1952). His other accomplishments include: 1949-88 -

Lecturer Lecturer is an academic rank within many universities, though the meaning of the term varies somewhat from country to country. It generally denotes an academic expert who is hired to teach on a full- or part-time basis. They may also conduct re ...

, Associate Professor (1961), Professor (1978) of the

, and Candidate of Art History (1953).Kyreiko, Vitaliy. Ukrainian music encyclopedia. Т. 2: � – К Kyiv 2008. P. 398-399.

Selected works

Operas: *''

The Forest Song ''The Forest Song'' (, ALA-LC romanization: ) is a poetic play in three acts by Lesya Ukrainka. The play was written in 1911 in the city of Kutaisi, and was first staged on 22 November 1918 at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater, Ky ...

'', an adaptation of the play by

Lesia Ukrainka Lesya Ukrainka (, ; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, ; – ) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active political, civil, and feminist activist. Among her best-known works are ...

(1957), *''On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs'', an adaptation of the novelette by

Olha Kobylianska Olha Yulianivna Kobylianska (; 27 November 1863 Gura Humorului, Bukovina, Austro-Hungary - 21 March 1942 Cernăuți, Cernăuți County, Romania) was a Ukrainian and Soviet modernist writer, nationalist and feminist. Biography Origin Kobylia ...

(1966), *''Marko in Hell'' (1966) *''The Boyar Woman'' (2003) Ballets: *''Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors'', an adaptation of the novella by

Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky Mykhailo Mykhailovych Kotsiubynsky (; 17 September 1864 – 25 April 1913) was a Ukrainian author whose writings described typical Ukrainian life at the start of the 20th century. Kotsiubynsky's early stories were described as examples of an e ...

(1960), *''The Witch'' (1967), *''The Orgy'' (1977), based on the play by Lesia Ukrainka

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Internet encyclopedia of Ukraine
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