Shchurovsky, Yuri

Shchurovsky Yuri Serhiyovych (April 28, 1927– October 13, 1996)

Shchurovsky Yuri Serhiyovych (April 28, 1927– October 13, 1996)

 Shchurovsky Yuri Serhiyovych (born April 28, 1927, Kyiv, Ukraine – died October 13, 1996) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer, music editor and teacher. His creative legacy includes ballet Friendship Song (Pesnya o druzhbe), two symphonies, symphonic poems and overtures, compositions for orchestra of folk instruments, chamber instrumental ensembles, choirs, romances, songs, works for children, music for films.


BIOGRAPHY

Background

Shchurovsky Yuri Serhiyovych was born in Kyiv into the family of a doctor.

Education

As a teenager, the future composer went through the war and the horrors of the occupation. After the liberation of his hometown, he began his creative path.

In 1951, he graduated from the Composition Department of the Kyiv Conservatory (class of Boris Mykolayovych Lyatoshinsky). In 1954, Shchurovsky completed his post-graduate studies.

Career

In 1951, Shchurovsky worked in Kyiv as editor of the Publishing House Mystestvo, in 1951-1952, he was a head of the musical department of the Kyiv Choreographic School, and in 1952-1955, Shchurovsky worked as a teacher of theoretical subjects at the Kyiv Conservatory. 

Yuri Shchurovsky with students of the R. Glier Kyiv Musical College

Yuri Shchurovsky with students of the R. Glier Kyiv Musical College

Shchurovsky Yuri Serhiyovych – Soviet and Ukrainian composer, music editor and teacher

Shchurovsky Yuri Serhiyovych – Soviet and Ukrainian composer, music editor and teacher

In 1958-1962, he taught theoretical subjects at the Kursk Music School. In Kursk Shchurovsky gave concerts. Since 1973 he had worked as a senior editor of the department of musical and pedagogical literature of the Publishing House Muzychna Ukraina.

Creativity

Shchurovsky composed a score for ballet Friendship Song (Pesnya o druzhbe), staged in 1961 in Kharkiv. His creative legacy comprises vocal and symphonic works, including odes-overtures Live, Blossom, Soviet Power (Zhivi, tsveti, Sovetskaya derzhava, 1982), two symphonies, symphonic poems and overtures, compositions for orchestra of folk instruments, chamber instrumental ensembles, choirs, romances, songs, works for children, music for films. He completed the sketches and orchestrated Rimsky-Korsakov’s Little Russian Fantasy (Malorossiyskaia fantazia).

SHEET MUSIC

You can find and download free scores of the composer:

VARIATIONS FOR PIANO. Edited by A. F. Zaderatska:

SELECTED PIANO WORKS. Kyiv “Muzychna Ukrayina” 1987:

PIECES

SONATINES