Roman Simovych
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Roman Simovych | |
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Роман Сімович | |
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| Born | 28 February 1901 Sniatyn, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary (present-day Ukraine) |
| Died | 30 July 1984 (aged 83) Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
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Roman Apollonovych Simovych[a] (28 February 1901 – 30 July 1984) was a Ukrainian composer, educator, and music theorist.
Born in Sniatyn, now in Ukraine, Simovych graduated from the Prague Conservatory in 1934 - on piano (Vilém Kurz), and again in 1936 undergoing post graduate studies in composition (Vítězslav Novák). From 1936 to 1939 he was a teacher of piano and theoretical subjects at the Lviv National Music Academy in Drohobych and from 1939 to 1942 at the music school in Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk). From 1951, he was a lecturer and from 1963, a full professor at the Lviv Conservatory. He received the title Honoured Artist of the USSR (1954).
He died in 1984 and was buried in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.
