Yuliy Sergeievitch Meitus (b. in

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– 2 April 1997 in

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), was a distinguished

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composer, considered the founder of the Ukrainian Soviet opera. His early style was modernistic, later he used more traditional neo-Romantic idioms. Meitus was born to a Jewish family. In 1919 he graduated from the School of Music in piano from

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, and from the Kharkiv Institute of Music and Drama in the composition class of C. Bogatyrenko in 1931. During

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he was evacuated to the

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. Meitus made his debut in film in 1932. He is famous for his 18 operas, a number of orchestral works and about 300 songs on Ukrainian and Russian classical poems, among them ''Stolen Happiness,'' the epic ''Yaroslav the Wise,'' ''Daughter of the Wind,'' ''Leila and Majnun'', '' The Young Guard'' and ''Abakan.'' He was buried in the

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