Georgy Maiboroda
Georgy Maiboroda was a Soviet, Ukrainian composer, conductor, film composer, and music teacher. He was born on November 18/December 1, 1913, in the hamlet of Pelekhovshchyna, in a peasant family. As a child, he was interested in playing folk instruments.
After graduating from Kremenchuk Industrial Technical School in 1932, he moved to Dniprobud, where he sang in the Dniprobud choir and took part in amateur music groups. He began composing there. He graduated from the Kyiv Music College in 1936 and from the Kyiv Conservatory in 1941, where he studied composition with Levko Revutsky. He completed the conservatory’s postgraduate program in 1949.
Maiboroda taught music theory at the Kyiv Conservatory from 1952 to 1958 and again from 1975. In the 1950s, he also appeared as a conductor, performing his own works. His operas include Milana (1957), Arsenal (1960), Taras Shevchenko (1964), and Yaroslav the Wise (1973). He wrote four symphonies, as well as the symphonic poems Lily (1939) and The Stonecutters (1941), and the Hutsul Rhapsody (1949).
His other works include the cantata Friendship of Nations (1948), a concerto for voice and orchestra (1969), a violin concerto (1977), and more than 50 romances. He also wrote music for films, stage productions, and radio plays. His honors included the title People's Artist of the USSR in 1960, the Shevchenko State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR in 1963 for Arsenal, and the Mykola Lysenko Republican Prize in 1984.
Maiboroda died in Kyiv on December 6, 1992, and was buried at Baikove Cemetery.