Platon Ilarionovych Maiboroda (Ukrainian: Платон Іларіонович Майборода; 1 December 1918 – 8 July 1989) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer and educator.
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Background information | |
Birth name | Platon Ilarionovych Maiboroda |
Born | Pelekhivshchyna, Kremenchugsky Uyezd, Poltava Governorate, Ukrainian State | December 1, 1918
Died | July 8, 1989 Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | (aged 70)
Occupation(s) | Composer, music pedagogue, folklorist |
Instrument | Piano |
Maiboroda, whose brother Heorhiy Maiboroda was also a composer, studied at the Gliere Music College. In 1938 Maiboroda enrolled in the Kyiv Conservatory in Kyiv where he studied under Levko Revutsky, graduating in 1947.[1] Maiboroda taught at the Gliere Music College from 1947 to 1950.
He was buried at the Baikove Cemetery, Kyiv.
Works
editFilms
edit- Valley of Blue Rocks (1956)
- Far and Near (1957)
- Thunder Over Fields (1958)
- Shift Starts at Six (1958)
- Ages of Youth (1958)
- Blood of Man - Not a Water (1960)
- Dmytro Horytsvit (1961)
- Ukrainian Rhapsody (1961)
- People Don't Know Everything (1964)
- Ballad of British (1969)
- Abiturient (1973)
- Adieu, Pharaohs! (1975)
- Ordinary Concerns (1975)
- Involuntary Diplomats (1978)
- Revision (1979)
- Visit to Kovalivka (1980)
Selected songs
edit- Dearest mother of mine[2] (words of Andriy Malyshko), soundtrack to the film Ages of Youth (1958)[3]
- Kyiv Waltz[4] (words of Andriy Malyshko)[5]
Awards
edit- Stalin Prize, 3rd class (1950) - for songs "About Olena Khobta", "About Mark Ozerny", "About Maria Lysenko"
- Shevchenko National Prize (1962)
- Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR (1958)
- People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1968)
- People's Artist of the USSR (1979)
- Order of Lenin (1960)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1982)
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kyiv"
Notes
edit- ^ Maiboroda, Platon. Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved Jan 22, 2023.
- ^ Performance of the song in English on YouTube (video) April 30, 2012
- ^ "Слова, текст, акорди "Пісня про рушник" - Дмитро Гнатюк - Українські пісні". www.pisni.org.ua. Retrieved Jan 22, 2023.
- ^ "Київський вальс | Золотий Фонд української естради". www.uaestrada.org. Retrieved Jan 22, 2023.
- ^ "Слова, текст, акорди "Київський вальс" - Юрій Гуляєв - Українські пісні". www.pisni.org.ua. Retrieved Jan 22, 2023.