Borys Yanovsky

Boris Karlovich Yanovsky (Ukrainian: Яновський Борис Карлович) (31 December 1875, Moscow – 19 January 1933, Kharkiv) was a Russian/Ukrainian composer, music critic, conductor and teacher of German origin.

He worked in Kyiv as an employee of periodicals and magazines, at the same time he taught, had conducting practice and wrote critical articles.

[1] Yanovsky adapted a work by Oscar Wilde into an operaThe Florentine Tragedy (1913, Odesa; 1916, Moscow; 1925, Kharkiv).

[3] Yanovsky composed two ballets,[1] Arabian Night (1916) and Ferenji (1930), and a music comedy The Undertaker, based on a work by Alexander Pushkin (1923), Oriental Suite (1896), and the symphonic poems Vii (1899, after Gogol), and Faun and the Shepherdess (1902).

He created examples using the poetry of Ukrainian, Russian and European poets such as Maeterlinck, Alexander Blok, Konstantin Balmont, Mikhail Kuzmin, Anna Akhmatova, Sergei Yesenin, and Charles Baudelaire.