Albert Vodovozov

Albert Fyodorovich Vodovozov was a Ukrainian composer and Honored Artist of Ukraine. He was born on April 3, 1932, in Olkhovoye, Stanichno-Luhansky District, Luhansk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, and died on July 3, 2018, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

He was born in the Donbas region, in the village of Olkhovka in Luhansk Oblast. His father was repressed, and his mother raised the children alone while working in a mine. Vodovozov graduated from the Luhansk Music College, where he studied wind instruments and composition under G. A. Arkhangelsky. He then studied composition at the Kyiv Conservatory with Professor N. N. Vilinsky, an Honored Artist of Ukraine. During his studies he also attended lectures by Lev Revutsky and Borys Lyatoshynsky, and communicated with composers Andriy Shtoharenko, Kostyantyn Dankevych, Heorhiy Maiboroda, and H. L. Zhukovsky.

After graduating from the conservatory, he returned to Donbas. In 1956 he became a teacher of theoretical subjects at the Donetsk Music College, where, at his initiative, a composition department and an optional course were opened. From 1956 to 1960 he served as head of the Miners' Song and Dance Ensemble of Donbas. In 1963-1964 he worked as a sound director at the Donetsk television studio. From 1970 to 1983 he was chairman of the Donetsk regional organization of the Union of Composers of Ukraine.

Vodovozov composed orchestral, piano, vocal, and choral works, as well as music for stage and screen. His principal works include the symphonic poem Prometheus (1953), Six Preludes for Piano (1954), Three Fugues for Piano (1955), Piano Sonata (1955), the symphonic poem Celebration in Donbas (1967), the piano concerto Romantic Poem (1967), the overture Youth Festive Overture (1968), the violin concerto-heroic poem Krasnodontsy (1972), and the cantata My Ukraine (1974). He also wrote numerous romances and songs, works for voice and orchestra, pieces for wind and variety orchestra, piano cycles, and large-scale concert works including Dialogues, a concerto for piano, organ or synthesizer, and symphony orchestra (1989).

In addition to his concert music, he wrote music for four television and theater productions, music for more than twenty puppet performances, and more than sixty songs. His career was closely connected with the musical life of Donbas and with Ukrainian musical culture more broadly.

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