Vitaliy Hubarenko Explained

Vitaliy Hubarenko
Native Name:Ukrainian: Віталій Сергійович Губаренко
Birth Date:13 June 1934
Birth Place:Kharkiv
Death Place:Kyiv, Ukraine
Education:Kharkiv Conservatory

Vitaliy Serhiyovych Hubarenko (Ukrainian: Віталій Сергійович Губаренко) (13 June 1934[1] - 5 April 2000) was a Ukrainian composer.

Life and works

Born in Kharkiv, he graduated from the Kharkiv Conservatory in 1960, where he had studied under Dmitri Klebanov. He was awarded the Ostrovsky Prize in 1967, and the Taras Shevchenko Prize in 1984. His first opera, Zahybel’ eskadry (‘The Destruction of the Squadron’) (1966) brought him to public attention.

His compositions include operas (of which he wrote many including in 1980 the opera-ballet Viy, Reborn May (1974), The Reluctant Matchmaker (1985), and Remember, My Brotherhood, described as an opera-oratorio (1990–91)), film music, and Pys’ma lyubvi (Letters to love) (1972), a cycle of four monologues for soprano and chamber ensemble.

Hubarenko died in Kyiv at age 65.

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Notes and References

  1. Grove incorrectly gives 1924 - all Ukrainian sources give 1934