Leonid Hrabovsky

Internet Edition compiled by Onno van Rijen

Updated 20 February 1999


Born

28 January 1935 in Kiev.

Education

He began to study the piano at the age of sixteen. Three years later he entered Lev Revutsky's composition class at the Kiev conservatory, continuing meanwhile to study economics at the Universiy (1951-1956).
From 1956 to 1962 he was a member of Boris Lyatoshinsky's composition class at the conservatory, where he was appointed to teach theory and composition in 1966.

Style

In the mid-1960s, together with Valentin Silvestrov and Vitaly Hodziatsky, Hrabovsky helped initiate a movement for musical experiment. These three composers (the Kiev group) were among the first in the former USSR to explore graphic notation, new instrumental techniques, musique concrète and serial procedures. Providing one of the most serious challenges to the aesthetic norms of socialist realism, they had a part in provoking heated disputes within the Soviet Composers' Union.

Works


Thanks to Robert Avak, O. Kuzyszyn and the composer for additional information


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