Dmytro Lvovych Klebanov (Ukrainian: Дмитро Львович Клебанов; Russian: Дми́трий Льво́вич Клеба́нов; 25 July [O.S.

[1] Early compositions included the ballets Lelechnia (Little Storks) and Svitlana, and a violin concerto.

[1] During World War II, Klebanov was evacuated to Tashkent in the Uzbek SSR, until he returned in 1943, settling first in Kyiv, then in 1945 in Kharkiv again.

When he dedicated his First Symphony "In Memoriam to the Martyrs of Babi Yar" (1947) to the victims of the Babyn Yar massacre he was criticized by Communist party critics, citing naming him a "rootless cosmopolitan", alluding to his Jewish roots.

He had been called a "Ukrainian bourgeois nationalist" when he had dedicated his String Quartet No.