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Leonid Oleksandrovych Hrabovsky (also Hrabovsky or Hrabovs'ky, Ukrainian: Леонід Олександрович Грабо́вський; Russian: Леони́д Алекса́ндрович Грабо́вский, Leonid Alexandrovitch Grabovsky) (born 28 January 1935) is a contemporary Ukrainiancomposer,[1] now living in the United States.[2]
Leonid Hrabovsky is one of the group of Ukrainiancomposers whose works indicated the opening of the modernist era in Ukrainian music of the late 20 century.
Hrabovsky studied economics at Kiev University (1951–1956), and from 1954 composition under Boris Lyatoshynsky and Lev Revutsky at Kiev Conservatory which he graduated in 1959. His diploma work "Four Ukrainian Songs" for chorus and orchestra (1959) which won first prize in an all-union competition. Shostakovich wrote about this: 'the Ukrainian Songs by Hrabovsky pleased me immensely—his arrangements attracted me by the freedom of treatment and good choral writing'.
In the early 1960s Hrabovsky taught theory and composition at the Kiev Conservatory. He belonged to group of the so-called Kiev avant-garde (as well as Hodzyatsky, Huba, Silvestrov, Yevhen Stankovych and Zahortsev). Leonid was active as a composer, editor, and translator. He was one of the first Soviet composers to adopt minimalism.[3] His works include Dramatic, Orchestral, Chamber, Vocal Music and music for solo instruments. Hrabovsky's works show Asian influences.
In 1981 he moved to Moscow. In 1987 he worked as an editor for "Sovetskaya muzika" magazine. In 1990 he moved to the US at the invitation of the Ukrainian Music Society. He settled in Brooklyn. Since 1990 to 1994 he was composer-in-residence at the Ukrainian Institute of America.
Operas
The Bear (chamber opera after Chekhov; piano score) 1963.
The Marriage Proposal (chamber opera after Chekhov; piano score) 1964.
Symphonic/orchestral
Symphonic Frescoes on a Theme of Boris Prorokov Op. 10, 1961.
Four Inventions (transcription of Op. 11a for chamber orchestra), 1965.
Small Chamber Music No.1 (chamber strings, 15 players), 1966. Homoeomorphy IV, 1970
Small Chamber Music No.2 (oboe, harp, 12 strings), 1971.
Meditation and Pathetic Recitative (string orchestra), 1972.
Five Character Pieces (transcription of Op. 11b for orchestra), 1975.
On St. John's Eve (symphony legend after Gogol), 1976
“ARRY” for String Orchestra (2018),
“Credo” for Brass, Strings, Percussion, Piccolo Flute & Four-Hands Piano
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Chamber/instrumental
Sonata Op.8 (unaccompanied violin), 1959.
Four Two-Part Inventions Op.11a (piano), 1962.
Five Character Pieces Op.11b (piano), 1962
Trio for Violin, Contrabass and Piano (1964, rev. 1975)[4]
