Oleksandr Ivanovych Bilash was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer and the author of popular lyric songs, ballads, operas, operettas, oratorios and music for films.
11 Facts About Oleksandr Bilash
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Oleksandr Bilash's father, Ivan Panasovych Bilash, played balalaika and guitar; his mother, Yevdokiya Andriyivna, was a solo singer at rural gatherings.
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In 1951, Oleksandr Bilash had successfully passed the entrance examinations for entry into the faculty of Composition of the Kyiv Conservatory.
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Oleksandr Bilash studied composition with the outstanding Ukrainian composer and teaching professor Mykola Vilinsky.
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Already Oleksandr Bilash had emerged as a pre-eminent and prolific Ukrainian composer who had contributed immensely to variety of musical genres and styles.
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One of them - "Roman and Francesca" with the celebrated lyric songs by Oleksandr Bilash was the first Soviet film where love between a Soviet sailor and a foreign girl was not criminalized.
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At the time of Chernobyl nuclear accident in April 1986, the popular lyric song "Dva kolyory" composed by Oleksandr Bilash sounded like a revelation.
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From 1976 to 1994 Oleksandr Bilash served as the Chairman of the Kyiv branch of the Union of Composers of Ukraine.
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Oleksandr Bilash was one of the most highly regarded Ukrainian composers and his creative output was highly praised.
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Oleksandr Bilash's wife was famous Ukrainian singer Larysa Ostapenko-Bilash with whom he had two daughters Lesya and Oksana.
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Oleksandr Bilash was buried at the Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv, the burial place of the Ukrainian elite.