Boris Yarovinsky
Boris Lvovich Yarovinsky (1922–2000) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer and conductor. He was named a People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR in 1977.
Born on 11 March 1922, he graduated from the military conducting faculty of the Moscow Conservatory in 1942. In 1949 he completed his studies at the Kharkiv Conservatory, where Dmytro Klebanov was his principal teacher; he also studied with Semen Bohatyrev and Mykola Tits.
From 1949, Yarovinsky directed choral chapels and wind orchestras. He also worked as a methodologist and consultant at the Kharkiv Regional House of Folk Art.
His works include the opera Lieutenant Schmidt, staged at the Kharkiv Opera Theatre in 1970 by Volodymyr Skliarenko; the ballets The Seasons (1959) and Poem about Marina (1967); and the oratorio Little Land (1980). He wrote four cantatas between 1948 and 1982, four symphonies between 1950 and 1980, piano concertos, Duma about the Zaporizhian Sich for voice and symphony orchestra, a string quartet, choral works, romances, musical comedies, and works for wind orchestra.
Yarovinsky also composed orchestral and chamber music, concertos for various instruments and orchestra, songs, and music for dramatic theatre and about 50 films. He prepared revised and orchestrated versions of Ivan Dzerzhinsky's operas The Fate of a Man (1962) and Quiet Flows the Don, also known as Grigory Melekhov (1972), as well as Kostiantyn Dankevych's Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1966).