Platon Maiboroda

Platon Ilarionovych Maiboroda
Native name	Платон Іларіонович Майборода
Born	December 1, 1918
Origin	Kremenchuk povit, Poltava Governorate, Ukrainian State
Died	July 8, 1989 (aged 70) Kiev, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)	Composer, teacher
Instruments	Piano

Platon Ilarionovych Maiboroda (Ukrainian: Платон Іларіонович Майборода; Pelekhivshchyna khutir, Ukrainian State, 1 December 1918 – Kiev, Soviet Union, 8 July 1989) was a Ukrainian composer.

Maiboroda, whose brother Heorhiy Maiboroda was also a composer, studied at the Gliere Music College. In 1938 Maiboroda enrolled in the Kiev Conservatory in Kiev where he studied under Levko Revutsky, graduating in 1947. Maiboroda taught at the Gliere Music College from 1947 to 1950.

He was buried at the Baikove Cemetery, Kiev.

Works

Films

• Valley of Blue Rocks (1956)
• Far and Near (1957)
• Thunder over fields (1958)
• Shift starts at six (1958)
• Ages of youth (1958), director Oleksiy Mishurin
• Odessa (1959)
• Blood of Man - Not a Water (1960)
• Dmytro Horytsvit (1961)
• Ukrainian Rhapsody (1961)
• People don't know everything (1964)
• Ballad of British (1969)
• Abiturient (1973)
• Adieu, pharaohs! (1975)
• Ordinary concern (1975)
• Involuntary diplomats (1978)
• Revision (1979)
• Visit to Kovalivka (1980)

Selected songs

• Dearest mother of mine^[1] (words of Andriy Malyshko), soundtrack to the film Ages of youth (1958)^[2]
• Kiev Waltz^[3] (words of Andriy Malyshko)^[4]

Awards

• Stalin Prize (III degree, 1950) - for songs "About Olena Khobta", "About Mark Ozerny", "About Maria Lysenko"
• Shevchenko National Prize (1962)
• Distinguished Artist of Ukrainian SSR (1958)
• National Artist of Ukrainian SSR (1968)
• National Artist of Soviet Union (1979)
• Order of Lenin

Notes

1. Performance of the song in English on YouTube (video) April 30, 2012
2. Information about the song www.pisni.org.ua
3. Golden Fund of the Ukrainian music uaestrada.org
4. Information about the song www.pisni.org.ua