LIST OF COMPOSITIONS

Operas

  • The Bear (chamber opera after Chekhov; piano score) 1963.
  • The Marriage Proposal (chamber opera after ; piano score) 1964.

Symphonic/orchestral

  • Symphonic Frescoes on a Theme of Boris Prorokov Op. 10, 1961.
  • Four Inventions (transcription of Op. 11a for chamber orchestra), 1965.
  • Small Chamber Music No.1 (chamber strings, 15 players), 1966. Homoeomorphy IV, 1970
  • Small Chamber Music No.2 (oboe, harp, 12 strings), 1971.
  • Meditation and Pathetic Recitative (string orchestra), 1972.
  • Five Character Pieces (transcription of Op. 11b for orchestra), 1975.
  • On St. John's Eve (symphony legend after Gogol), 1976

Chamber/instrumental

  • Sonata Op.8 (unaccompanied violin), 1959.
  • Four Two-Part Inventions Op.11a (piano), 1962.
  • Five Character Pieces Op.11b (piano), 1962
  • Trio for Violin, Contrabass and Piano (1964, rev. 1975)
  • Microstructures (unaccompanied oboe), 1964.
  • Constants (solo violin, 4 pianos, 6 percussion groups), 1964
  • Homoeomorphies I-III (piano; III, 2 pianos), 1968–9.
  • Ornaments (oboe, harp or guitar, viola; variable duration), 1969.
  • Bucolic Strophes (organ), 1976.
  • Concorsuono (unaccompanied French horn), 1977.
  • Concerto misterioso (flute, clarinet, bassoon, antique cymbals, harpsichord, harp, violin, viola, cello), 1977.
  • Fuer Elise (piano), 1988.
  • Hlas I (unaccompanied cello), 1990.
  • And It Will Be (8 musical settings to poems by Mykola Vorobyov, for mezzo-soprano, piano, synthesizer, violin, and clarinet), premiered 1993.
  • Hlas II (obituary for Dmitri Shostakovich, unaccompanied bass-clarinet), 1994.
  • Visions fugitives (wind quintet), 2015.

Vocal/choral

  • Four Ukrainian Songs Op.6 (mixed chorus, orchestra; folk texts) 1959.
  • Five Poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky Op/9 (baritone, piano) 1962
  • Two A Cappela Choruses (Mayakovsky, Asseyev) 1964
  • Pastels (female voice, violin, viola, cello, double bass; Tychyna) 1964, revised 1975.
  • From Japanese Haiku (tenor, piccolo, basson, xylophone) 1964, revised 1975.
  • La Mer/The Sea (speaker, chorus, organ, orchestra; St John Perse) 1966–70.
  • Marginalia on Heissenbuettel (speaker, 2 trumpets, trombone, percussion) 1967, revised 1975.
  • Kogda (soprano, violin, clarinet, piano with additional percussion, strings ad lib.; Khlebnikov) 1987.
  • Temnere mortem for 4-part mixed chamber chorus a cappella (Skovoroda), 1991
  • I Bude Tak/And It Will Be (soprano, violin, clarinet, piano/CASIO-100 Tonebank synthesizer with additional percussion), 1993.

Music for guitar

  • The Night Blues
  • Tango & Foxtrot
  • Homages (7 Pieces)
  • 3 Pieces in an Old Style

By Hrabovsky

  • "On My Teacher", memoir on Boris Liatoshinsky) in Sovetskaya Muzyka, 2, 1969;
  • "Splendor and a Bit of Misery", in Sovietskaya Muzyka, 10, 1988;
  • "Zauber der ukrainischen Musik", in Die Musik, 1, 1989.

 

 

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