Ihor Schamo
Ihor Naumowytsch Schamo ( Ukrainian Ігор Наумович Шамо , Russian Игорь Наумович Шамо Igor Naumowitsch Schamo ; born February 21, 1925 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ; † August 17, 1982 ibid) was a Ukrainian composer.
Life
Ihor Schamo was born in Kiev and studied at a music school there before he and his mother were evacuated to Ufa at the beginning of the Second World War and studied there for a year at a medical institute. Then he volunteered for the Red Army and served as a soldier in a sanitary battalion between the Volga and Berlin. In the spring of 1946 he began studying composition at the Kiev Conservatory with Borys Lyatoschynskyj , which he graduated in 1951. In 1948 he became a member of the Union of Soviet Composers of Ukraine ( Спілку радянських композиторів України ). He died at the age of 57 in Kiev and was buried there in the Baikowe cemetery .
plant
Schamo wrote 3 symphonies and over 300 songs, which manifested themselves in the organic saturation of melodies through folk intonations , including poems by Dmytro Lutsenko . His songs Ukraine, Meine Liebe and Mein Kiew ( Як тебе не любити, Києве мій!, Text: Dmytro Lutsenko), which officially became the hymn of the Ukrainian capital in 2011, were particularly successful . Schamo composed songs for almost 20 artists, 16 plays as well as the score for the film Die Steinblume (1962) and over 20 other films, especially for the 6-part television film How Steel Was Hardened (1973-75).
Honors
- Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR
- 1975 People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR
- Order mark of honor
- 1976 Taras Shevchenko Prize
- 2015 honorary citizen of Kiev
- In 2016, a boulevard in the Dnipro district of Kiev was named after him
Web links
- Ihor Shamo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b biography of Ihor Schamo on the website igorshamo.de ; accessed on January 16, 2019
- ^ Entry on Ihor Schamo in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on January 16, 2019 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Entry on Ihor Schamo in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on January 16, 2019 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b c d e f Profile of Ihor Schamo on the official website of the Kiev City Council; accessed on January 16, 2019 (Ukrainian)
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| SURNAME | Schamo, Ihor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schamo, Ihor Naumowytsch (full name); Шамо, Ігор Наумович (Ukrainian); Шамо, Игорь Наумович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiev , Ukrainian SSR |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 1982 |
| Place of death | Kiev , Ukrainian SSR |