Arkady Filippenko was a Ukrainian Soviet composer. He was born in Kyiv on January 8, 1912 (December 26, 1911, Old Style). In 1939, he graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory, where he studied composition with Lev Revutsky.
From 1948 to 1952, Filippenko served as executive secretary of the Ukrainian SSR Composers’ Union. He was its deputy chairman from 1954 to 1956 and again from 1973. In 1968, he became secretary of the USSR Composers’ Union.
His works include two operettas, a symphonic poem, a concert waltz, a symphony for string orchestra, five string quartets, piano sonatas, and more than 300 children’s songs. He also wrote music for films, radio, television, and theatrical productions. His film scores included those for Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors, and The Golden Horns.
Filippenko received the second-degree Stalin Prize in 1949 for his Second String Concerto, composed in 1948, and was named People’s Artist of the Ukrainian SSR in 1969. He died in Kyiv on August 24, 1983, and was buried at Baikove Cemetery.