Leonid Hrabovsky

Leonid Oleksandrovych Hrabovsky (also Hrabovsky or Hrabovs'ky, Ukrainian: Леонід Олександрович Грабо́вський; Russian: Леони́д Алекса́ндрович Грабо́вский, Leonid Alexandrovitch Grabovsky) (born 28 January 1935) is a contemporary Ukrainian composer,[1] now living in the United States.

His diploma work "Four Ukrainian Songs" for chorus and orchestra (1959) which won first prize in an all-union competition.

Shostakovich wrote about this: 'the Ukrainian Songs by Hrabovsky pleased me immensely—his arrangements attracted me by the freedom of treatment and good choral writing'.

In the early 1960s Hrabovsky taught theory and composition at the Kiev Conservatory.

He belonged to group of the so-called Kiev avant-garde (as well as Hodzyatsky, Huba, Silvestrov, Yevhen Stankovych and Zahortsev).