Platon Maiboroda

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Ilarionovych and the family name is Maiboroda.

Platon Maiboroda Платон Майборода
Background information
Born	(1918-12-01)December 1, 1918 Pelekhivshchyna [uk], Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine)
Died	July 8, 1989(1989-07-08) (aged 70) Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Genres	Classical
Occupations	Composer Music teacher Folklorist
Instrument	Piano

Platon Ilarionovych Maiboroda (Ukrainian: Платон Іларіонович Майборода; 1 December 1918 – 8 July 1989) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer and educator.

Maiboroda, whose brother Heorhiy Maiboroda was also a composer, studied at the Gliere Music College. In 1938 Maiboroda enrolled in the Kyiv Conservatory in Kyiv where he studied under Levko Revutsky, graduating in 1947.[1] Maiboroda taught at the Gliere Music College from 1947 to 1950.

He was buried at the Baikove Cemetery, Kyiv.

Works

Films

• Valley of Blue Rocks (1956)
• Far and Near (1957)
• Thunder Over Fields [uk] (1958)
• Shift Starts at Six [ru] (1958)
• Ages of Youth [uk] (1958)
• Blood of Man - Not a Water [uk] (1960)
• Dmytro Horytsvit [uk] (1961)
• Ukrainian Rhapsody (1961)
• People Don't Know Everything [uk] (1964)
• Ballad of British [ru] (1969)
• The Applicant [ru] (1973)
• Adieu, Pharaohs! [ru] (1975)
• Ordinary Concerns [uk] (1975)
• Involuntary Diplomats [uk] (1978)
• Smotriny [ru] (1979)
• Visit to Kovalivka [ru] (1980)

Selected songs

• Song about the Towel[2] (words of Andriy Malyshko), soundtrack to the film Ages of Youth (1958)[3]
• Kyiv Waltz[4] (words of Andriy Malyshko)[5]

Awards

• Stalin Prize, 3rd class (1950) - for songs "About Olena Khobta", "About Mark Ozerny", "About Maria Lysenko"
• Shevchenko National Prize (1962)
• Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR [uk] (1958)
• People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1968)
• People's Artist of the USSR (1979)
• Order of Lenin (1960)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1982)
• Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kyiv"

Notes

References

1. Maiboroda, Platon. Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved Jan 22, 2023.
2. Performance of the song in English on YouTube (video) April 30, 2012
3. "Слова, текст, акорди "Пісня про рушник" - Дмитро Гнатюк - Українські пісні". www.pisni.org.ua. Retrieved Jan 22, 2023.
4. "Київський вальс | Золотий Фонд української естради". www.uaestrada.org. Retrieved Jan 22, 2023.
5. "Слова, текст, акорди "Київський вальс" - Юрій Гуляєв - Українські пісні". www.pisni.org.ua. Retrieved Jan 22, 2023.