Dmitri Klebanov Explained

Dmytro Klebanov
Native Name:Ukrainian: Дмитро Львович Клебанов
Birth Place:Kharkiv, Russian Empire
Education:Kharkiv Institute of Music and Drama

Dmytro Lvovych Klebanov (uk|Дмитро Львович Клебанов; ru|Дми́трий Льво́вич Клеба́нов; – 6 June 1987) was a Soviet-era Ukrainian composer. He studied violin and compositiond at the Kharkiv Institute of Music and Drama. He was professor at the Kharkiv Conservatory from 1960.

Life and career

Born in 1907 in Kharkiv, Klebanov began to learn the violin at age six, and a year later began studies violin and composition at the Kharkiv Institute of Music and Drama. He graduated in 1926 in composition, supervised by Semyon Bogatyrev.

Klebanov was a violinist in the Leningrad Kirov Orchestra. He returned to Kharkov to study with Herman Adler. He conducted the Kharkov Radio Orchestra in the 1930s. He lectured at the Kharkiv Music and Drama Institute from 1934. Early compositions included the ballets Lelechnia (Little Storks) and Svitlana, and a violin concerto.

During World War II, Klebanov was evacuated to Tashkent in the Uzbek SSR, until he returned in 1943, settling first in Kyiv, then in 1945 in Kharkiv again. He was appointed head of the local branch of the Union of Composers of Ukraine and head of the department for composition Department of Music and Drama Institute. When he dedicated his First Symphony "In Memoriam to the Martyrs of Babi Yar" (1947) to the victims of the victims of the Babyn Yar massacre he was criticized by Communist party critics, citing naming him a "rootles cosmopolitan", alluding to his Jewish roots. He had been called a "Ukrainian bourgeois nationalist" when he had dedicated his String Quartet No. 4 to the memory of Mykola Leontovych. He was dismissed from his posts.

In 1960, during Khrushchev's "thaw", he was again appointed professor at the Kharkiv Conservatory (from 1963 the Kharkiv Institute of Arts). In 1966 he was a member of the jury of the third International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He held the teaching position until 1970. Among his students were Valentin Bibik, Vitaliy Hubarenko, and Viktor Suslin.

Compositions

Opera
Ballet
Musical comedy
Orchestral
Concertante
Chamber music
Piano
Film score

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