Yevhen Zubtsov

Yevhen Zubtsov was a Ukrainian Soviet composer, born on 11 June 1920 in Yenakiieve, now in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. He died on 1 May 1986 in Kyiv. In 1979 he was awarded the title Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.

In 1948–1949 he worked as the musical director of a variety orchestra in Rostov-on-Don. He later graduated from the composition faculty of the Kyiv Conservatory in 1954, where he studied composition with N. N. Vilinsky. After completing his studies, he led the Ukrainian Republican Estrada in 1954–1955 and served as artistic director of the Kyiv variety orchestra from 1955 to 1959. From 1960 onward he worked as a freelance creative artist.

Zubtsov composed a wide range of orchestral and vocal works. His pieces for orchestra include the poems "Kotovsky" (1952) and "Roads" (1966), as well as the suites "Sea" (1961), "Ballet" (1964), and "Star Flower" (1971). He also wrote the song-oratorio "Star Youth" on words by B. Paliychuk (1967), the cantata "With Lenin in the Heart" for children’s choir and orchestra (1970), a piano concerto (1961), a concerto for trumpet and trombone (1964), "Transcarpathian Fantasy" for variety orchestra (1958), and 12 concert pieces for variety orchestra (1962). His output also included romances, more than fifty songs, and music for dramatic theatre and radio productions.

He was also active as a film composer and wrote music for numerous films. Among them are "Paths and Destinies" (1955), "The First Lad" (1958), "They Were Nineteen" (1960), "Fortress on Wheels" (1960), "We, Two Men" (1962), "An Odd Man" (1962), "The Gas Station Queen" (1963), "Star of the Ballet" (1964), "The Tale of Ptashkin" (1965), "Alone with the Night" (1966), "Doctor Abst’s Experiment" (1968), "The Fugitive from Yantarny" (1968), "At the Dawn of Misty Youth" (1970), "Steep Horizon" (1970), "Star Flower" (1971), "Not a Day Without Adventures" (1972), "The Day of My Sons" (1972), "Random Address" (1972), "The Unknown Man Whom Everyone Knew" (1972), "Do Not Give Up the Queen" (1975), "Look into the Eyes" (1976), "Altunin Makes a Decision" (1978), "My General" (1979), and "Kapel" (1981).

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