Yuli Meitus

Yuli Meitus

Known for: Sound
Biography: 1903-01-28
Deathday: 1997-04-02 (94 years old)

Biography

Yuliy Serhiyovych Meitus (Ukrainian: Юлій Сергійович Мейтус; 28 January 1903, Yelysavethrad – 2 April 1997, Kyiv), was a Soviet and Ukrainian 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 Heinrich Neuhaus, and from the Kharkiv Institute of Music and Drama in the composition class of C. Bogatyrenko in 1931. During World War II he was evacuated to the Turkmen SSR. 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 Baikove Cemetery.

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Known For
Sound

Gender
Male

Birthday
1903-01-28

Deathday
1997-04-02 (94 years old)

Birth Place
Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine

Citizenships
Soviet Union, Ukraine

Awards
Honored Art Worker of Ukraine, Shevchenko National Prize, Medal "For Labour Valour", Stalin Prize, Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kiev", Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kyiv", People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, Order of Friendship of Peoples, Order of the Red Banner of Labour

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