Vitaly Lorinov, born Vitaly Mironovich Fuksman on March 3, 1938, in Dnipropetrovsk, is a Soviet and Russian composer and man of letters. He became a member of the Union of Composers of the USSR in 1967.
After 1960 he lived in Chisinau. In 1965 he graduated from the Chisinau Institute of Arts, where he studied composition with L. S. Gurov. He then continued his musical education at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of R. S. Ledenev, and afterward worked again in Chisinau until 1988.
Lorinov's musical output includes the opera Scenes from the Life of a Provincial Town, based on M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, and the mystery opera Job the Suffering, based on the Old Testament. He also wrote five symphonies, an overture and a suite for orchestra, Music for string orchestra with percussion, and a Concerto for Orchestra.
His instrumental concertos include works for violin, tuba, cello, oboe, and solo violin. He also composed quintets for woodwind and brass instruments, two string quartets, chamber ensembles for various orchestral instruments, instrumental sonatas, vocal, choral, and piano cycles, choruses, romances, instrumental pieces, and music for variety-symphony orchestra.
Alongside his musical activity, Lorinov wrote literary works, including A Tale of Wartime Childhood, Confession of One Year, Through the Eyes of a Contemporary, A Book of Life, and Dialogues with Myself, described as a composer's reflections. Stories and chapters from Confession of One Year were published in the Moscow monthly journal of contemporary Russian literature Our Street.