Anton Mukha

Anton Mukha was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer and musicologist. He was born on 7 January 1928 in the village of Shebalino, Siberian Krai, and died on 19 July 2008 in Vorzel, Kyiv Oblast.

He graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory in 1952, studying composition with Mykola Vilinsky and orchestration with Borys Lyatoshynsky. In 1955 he completed postgraduate studies there under the supervision of Mykola Vilinsky.

Mukha worked as a music editor at the Kyiv television studio and as a senior referent of the Union of Composers of Ukraine. From 1962 he worked as a researcher at the Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology; from 1991 he was a leading researcher, and from 2002 to 2004 he headed a department there. He became a Candidate of Art Studies in 1965 with the dissertation "The Principle of Programmaticity in Music," received the degree of Doctor of Art Studies in 1982, and was awarded the title of professor in 1993. He was a member of the Union of Composers of Ukraine.

As a composer, he wrote the children's ballet "Dream" to a libretto by L. Bondarenko (1969) and the ballet "Ivasyk," written jointly with I. Vilensky (1972). His orchestral works include a "Symphony" (1956, second version 1959), the "Concert Waltz" (1954), the suites "Pioneer Ball" (1960) and "The Tsarevich and Three Doctors" (1971), and the symphonic fairy tale "About Children and Adults" (1971). For violin and orchestra he composed the concerto "Youth" (1952, third version 1997). For chamber orchestra he wrote "Little Suite in Old Style" and "Polyphonic Variations" (both 1978), and for orchestra of folk instruments he wrote "Drawling Song" (1950), later also arranged for symphony orchestra. He also composed chamber works and arrangements of folk songs.

Mukha was also active as a scholar and author of musicological works. His books include "The Principle of Programmaticity in Music" (1966), "The Symphony Orchestra and Its Instruments" (1967), "The Process of Compositional Creativity" (1979), "Country Symphony" (1988), "Composers of the World in Their Connections with Ukraine" (2000), and "Composers of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Diaspora" (2004). He also wrote articles and sections for collective volumes, contributed to the collection "Musicians Laugh" ("Merry Tuning Fork"), and worked on reviews and editorial projects.

In 1960 he was awarded the Medal "For Labor Distinction" for outstanding merits in the development of Soviet literature and art, in connection with the decade of Ukrainian literature and art in Moscow.

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