Volodymyr Petrovych Huba (22 December 19383 December 2020) 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 ...
and
poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...
.
Career
Born in
Kyiv
Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...
, he studied music at the
Kyiv Conservatory (which is now the National Music Academy of Ukraine) with professors
Levko Revutsky,
B. Liatoshinskyi and
A. Shtoharenko; he graduated with a degree in composition. He has worked as a
music teacher,
music editor, and a
film maker
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. Films with his music have received awards at international Cinema Festivals. Huba was also awarded the title of the National Artist of
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...
. He composed the music for some 70 films.
Oxford Music Online biography by Virko Baley (limited access)
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1938 births
2020 deaths
Kyiv Conservatory alumni
Ukrainian classical composers
Musicians from Kyiv
Ukrainian film score composers
Laureates of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize
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