Lev Mykolajovych Kolodub (; 1 May 1930 – 23 February 2019), was a

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and teacher, Honored Artist of Ukraine (1973),

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(1993). Recipient of

Shevchenko National Prize Shevchenko National Prize ( uk, Націона́льна пре́мія Украї́ни і́мені Тараса́ Шевче́нка; also ''Shevchenko Award'') is the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and arts awarded since ...

(2010). Head of Ukrainian Music Foundation (1988—1994)

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branch of

National Union of Composers of Ukraine The National Union of Composers of Ukraine (ukr: ''Національна спілка композиторів України'') is a public organization that unites Ukrainian composers and musicologists working in academic music. Potential memb ...

(1994—1999).

Biography

Lev Kolodub was born on 1 May 1930 in Kyiv. His mother was an opera singer, her grandmother was a music teacher. He studied at the Kharkiv Secondary Specialized Music Boarding School as a

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ist, later at the

Kharkiv Conservatory Kharkiv National University of Arts named after I. P. Kotlyarevsky (or Kharkiv Conservatory or Kharkiv National I. P. Kotlyarevsky University of Arts) is the leading music and drama institution of higher education in Ukraine. The university train ...

as a composer.Kolodub, Levko Mykolayovych
// Grove music online After graduating from the conservatory in 1954 he worked in Kiev. From 1958 to 1960 he taught music theory at the Kyiv Theater Institute, and from 1966 he taught at the

Kyiv Conservatory Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine ( uk, Національна музична академія України імені Петра Чайковського) or Kyiv Conservatory is a Ukrainian state institution of higher music e ...

, from 1985 as professor. In 1997 he headed a recently established Music Information Technology Department of the Kyiv Conservatory. From 1994 to 1997 he was the chairman of the Kyiv branch of

. He was from 1997 a corresponding member and from 2005 an academic of the

Academy of Arts of Ukraine National Ukrainian Academy of Arts ( ua, Академія мистецтв України (АМУ)) is a state scientific and artistic institution in the field of art, culture, and art history in Ukraine. The academy is one of the six state funde ...

. Lev Kolodub was married to Zhanna Kolodub, a Ukrainian composer and pianist. He died on 23 February 2019 in Kyiv at the age of 89.

Legacy

The creative legacy of Levko Kolodub includes 4 operas, 4 operettas, 2 ballets, 12 symphonies, numerous concertos for

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s with orchestra, as well as

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and music for cinema. Pieces for wind instruments hold a special place and have been highly appreciated by Ukrainian musicians. His symphonic music is based in Ukrainian folklore and usually carries some kind of an agenda. The 9th, 10th and 11th symphonies were awarded with the

.Shevchenko National Prize 2010. List of winners
/ref> Although he was never part of the avant-garde movement of the 1960s, he was a composer of interesting and colourful music and always a superb craftsman.

Selected works

;Operas: * ''A Duma about Turbay'' (''Дума про Турбаї'', 1951);"A Duma about Turbay": about the peasant * ''Awakening'' (''Пробудження'', 1976) * ''Unrequited Love'' (''«Незраджена любов»'', 1985) * ''Poet'' (''Поет'', 1988) ;Operettas: * ''Merry Girls'' (''Веселі дівчата'', co-authored with Zhanna Kolodub, 1968) * ''Adventures in Mississippi'' (''Пригоди на Міссісіпі'' co-authored with Zhanna Kolodub, 1971) * ''City of Lovers'' (''Місто закоханих'', 1969) * ''I love you'' (''Люблю тебе'', 1975) ;Symphonies: *Symphony № 1, 1958. *Symphony-Duma № 2, "Shevchenko's images", 1964. *Symphony № 3, "Symphony in the style of the Ukrainian Baroque", 1980. *Symphony № 4, "Symphony '86", 1986. *Symphony № 5, "Pro memoria" (Memory of the victims of terrible disasters in Ukraine), 1990. *Symphony № 6, "C major and A. Schoenberg", 1999. *Symphony № 7, "Metamorphoses", 2000 (2nd edition - 2003) *Symphony № 8, Pryluky (for young performers), 2003. *Symphony № 9, "New Feelings", 2004. *Symphony № 10, "According to the sketches of young years", 2005. *Symphony № 11, New Shores, 2007. *Symphony № 12, "Zeitheist" ("Spirit of Time"). ;Concertos for solo instruments and orchestra: *2 concertos for horn and orchestra (1972, 1980), *2 concertos for trumpet and orchestra (1982, 1996), *2 concertos for trombone and orchestra (1986, 1997), *Concerto for 2 violins and orchestra (1988), *2 concertos for violin and orchestra (1992, 2000), *2 concertos for clarinet and orchestra (1995, 2004), *Concerto for bassoon and orchestra (1997), *Concerto for oboe and orchestra (1997), *

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for 2 French horns (Ukrainian, 1982), *Concertina for the tube (Epic, 1986), *Concertina for 4 saxophones (1985), *Concertina for oboe (2001);

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External links

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