| Eduard Khanok | |
| Birth Name: | Eduard Semyonovich Khanok |
| Birth Date: | 18 April 1940[1] |
| Birth Place: | Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union |
| Awards: | Lira 2013 |
Eduard Semyonovich Khanok (Russian: Эдуард Семёнович Ханок, Belarusian: Эдуард Сямёнавіч Ханок; born 1940) is a Soviet and Belarusian musician and composer.[2] Honored Worker of Culture of the Byelorussian SSR (1982). People's Artist of Belarus (1996).[3] [4]
Born April 18, 1940 in Kazakhstan in a military family. In his childhood, he moved to the city of Brest, where he graduated from high school. In 1962, he graduated from the Minsk State Musical College, in 1969, the Moscow Conservatory, learning in which he wrote his first song. Member of Union of Soviet Composers since 1973.[4]
Khanok has composed music in various genres ranging from vocal-symphonic, chamber-instrumental, chamber-vocal, but most fruitfully in song. From his works the repertoires of ensembles Verasy, Syabry, and Pesnyary were formed.[2] He is the author of popular songs.[5] [6]