Ihor Shamo
Illustration — Memorial to the Ukrainian composer Ihor Shamo in Kostolna St., Kyiv, Ukraine Ihor Naumovich Shamo (also romanized Igor; 21 February 1925 – 17 August 1982) was a Ukrainian composer, Shevchenko National Prize laureate. Shamo was born in Kyiv to a family of Jewish origin. He graduated from the Lysenko Music School in Kyiv, where his main subjects were composition and piano, in 1941, and was evacuated in that year to Ufa, where he studied medicine for two years.
Ihor Shamo
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- Full name
- І́гор Нау́мович Шамо́.
- Born
- 1925. · Kyiv.
- Died
- 1982. · Kyiv.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union.
- Occupation
- composer, songwriter and pianist.
- Fields
- film score, song and piano and orchestra music.
- Education
- Ukrainian National Academy of Music.
- Honours
- Order of Friendship of Peoples, Order of the Badge of Honour, Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, Shevchenko National Prize and Medal For Labour Valour.
- Languages
- Ukrainian.
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Illustration — Memorial to the Ukrainian composer Ihor Shamo in Kostolna St., Kyiv, Ukraine Ihor Naumovich Shamo (also romanized Igor; 21 February 1925 – 17 August 1982) was a Ukrainian composer, Shevchenko National Prize laureate. Shamo was born in Kyiv to a family of Jewish origin. He graduated from the Lysenko Music School in Kyiv, where his main subjects were composition and piano, in 1941, and was evacuated in that year to Ufa, where he studied medicine for two years.
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From 1942 to 1946, he was in the Soviet Army as a medical assistant; when he returned to Kyiv he recommenced his musical studies, graduating from the Kyiv Conservatory in 1951 in the class of Boris Lyatoshinsky. He had joined the Union of Soviet Composers in 1948, and at his graduation played his own Concert-Ballade for piano and orchestra. His popular song Kyieve Mii (My Kyiv) – then regarded as the "unofficial anthem of the Ukrainian capital" – became the city's official anthem in 2014, and is cited on his memorial on the building where he lived (see picture). His other works include three symphonies, and an opera Yatranskiye Igri, which is unusually scored for a cappella choir and soloists.
Ihor Shamo studied at Ukrainian National Academy of Music. The recorded working language is Ukrainian. The field of work recorded is film score, song and piano and orchestra music. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Distinctions recorded are Order of Friendship of Peoples, Order of the Badge of Honour, Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR and People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.
• Maksimka (1953) • Malva (1957) • E.A. — Extraordinary Accident (1958) • Far from the Motherland (1960) • Flower on the Stone (1962)
Монета 100 років від дня народження Ігоря Шамо реверс
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Монета 100 років від дня народження Ігоря Шамо у сувенірному пакованні аверс
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1925
Ihor Shamo born at Kyiv.
1982
Ihor Shamo died at Kyiv.
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Ihor Shamo received Order of Friendship of Peoples, Order of the Badge of Honour, Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, Shevchenko National Prize and Medal "For Labour Valour".
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- 1.Committee for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine.
- 2.Nevichana (n.d.).
- 3.Shurova (n.d.)
- 4."Biography" in Igor Shamo website, accessed 21 May 2014.
- 5.Polishchuk, Tetiana, "Classics to the masses!", (29 May 2013) in website of Den newspaper, accessed 21 May 2014.
- 6.Українська правда - Київ. kiev.pravda.com.
- 7.Shurova (n.d.).
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