Biografia
Nato a Žytomyr, in Ucraina, da padre docente di storia e madre pianista e cantante, cominciò a suonare pianoforte e violino all'età di 14 anni, componendo fin dall'inizio diversi brani, fra i quali un quartetto per pianoforte.
Dopo essersi diplomato nel 1913 al liceo di Žytomyr, Borys frequentò l'Università di Kyiv (dove si laureò nel 1918) e contemporaneamente il Conservatorio di Kyiv, dove apprese la composizione da Reinhold Glière. Nel 1920 tornò al Conservatorio, ma non come alunno, bensì come insegnante di Teoria e successivamente, dal 1922, di Composizione, per poi passare, negli anni '30-'40, al Conservatorio di Mosca.
La sua musica appartiene alla corrente surrealista del primo '900 e spesso le sue opere furono censurate dal regime sovietico, che le definiva "arte degenerata".
Composizioni Orchestrali
5 symphonies Symphony No. 1 A major opus 2 (1918-1919) Symphony No. 2 B minor opus 26 (1935-1936) Revised in 1940. Symphony No. 3 B minor opus 50 "To the 25th Anniversary of the October revolution" (1951) Symphony No. 4 B minor opus 63 (1963) Symphony No. 5 C major "Slavonic" opus 67 (1965-1966) Fantastic March opus 3 (1920) Overture on four Ukrainian Folk themes opus 20 (1927) Suite from the Opera "The Golden Tire" opus 23 (1928) Lyric Poem (1947) Song of the Reunification of Russia opus 49 (1949-1950) Waltz (1951) Suite from the Film music "Taras Shevchenko" opus 51 (1952) Slavonic Concerto for piano and orchestra opus 54 (1953) Suite from the Play "Romeo and Juliet" opus 56 (1955) "On the Banks of Vistula", symphonic poem opus 59 (1958) Orchestration of String Quartet No. 2 A major opus 4 (No. 2 Intermezzo) for orchestra (1960) Polish Suite opus 60 (1961) Slavonic Overture opus 61 (1961) Lyric Poem "To the Memory of Glière" opus 66 (1964) Slavonic Suite opus 68 (1966) Festive Overture opus 70 (1967) "Grazhyna", ballade after A. Mickiewicz opus 58 (1955)
Vocali/Corali Orchestrali Festive Cantata "To the 60th Anniversary of Stalin" after Rilskov for mixed chorus and orchestra (1938) "Inheritance", cantata after Shevtshenko (1939)
Da camera/strumentali 5 string quartets String Quartet No. 1 D minor opus 1 (1915) String Quartet No. 2 A major opus 4 (1922) String Quartet No. 3 opus 21 (1928) String Quartet No. 4 opus 43 (1943) String Quartet No. 5 (1944-1951) Piano Trio No. 1 opus 7 (1922) (revised in 1925) Sonata for violin and piano opus 19 (1926) Three Pieces after Folksong-Themes for violin and piano opus 25 (1932) Piano Trio No. 2 opus 41 (1942) Piano Quintet "Ukrainian Quintet" opus 42 (1942) Suite on Ukrainian Folksong-Themes for string quartet opus 45 (1944) Suite for wind quartet opus 46 (1944) Two Mazurkas on Polonian Themes for cello and piano (1953) Nocturne and Scherzino for viola and piano (1963)
Piano
Elegy-Prelude (1920) Piano Sonata No. 1 opus 13 (1924) Seven Pieces "Reflections" opus 16 (1925) Piano Sonata No. 2 "Sonata Ballade" opus 18 (1925) Ballad opus 22 (1928-1929) Ballad opus 24 (1929) Suite (1941) Three Preludes opus 38 (1942) Two Preludes opus 38b (1942) Shevchenko-Suite (1942) Not finished. Five Preludes opus 44 (1943) Concerto Etude-Rondo (1962-1965) Concert-Etude (1962-1967)
Vocali "Moonshadow", song after Verlaine, I.Severyanin, Balmont and Wilde opus 9 (1923) Two Poems after Shelley opus 10 (1923) Two Songs after Maeterlinck and Balmont opus 12 (1923) Four Poems after Shelley opus 14 (1924) Poems for baritone and piano opus 15 (1924)
Corali The Sun Rises at the Horizon, song after Shevtshenko for chorus Water, Flow into the Blue Lake!, song after Shevtshenko for chorus Seasons after Pushkin for chorus Po negy kradetsya luna after Pushkin for chorus Kto, volny, vas ostanovil after Pushkin for chorus
Colonne Sonore Music to the Play "Optimistic Tragedy" (1932) Music to the Film "Taras Shevtshenko" (1950) Music to the Play "Romeo and Julia" (1954) Music to the Film "The Hooked Pig's Snout" (1956) Music to the Film "Ivan Franko" (1956)
Bandistica March No. 1 for wind orchestra (1931) March No. 2 for wind orchestra (1932) March No. 3 for wind orchestra (1936)
Trascrizioni Orchestration of Lysenko's opera Taras Bulba (Co-operation with L. Revutsky) Orchestration of Glière's Violin Concerto (Co-operation with K. G. Mostras)
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