Biography
Юлій Мейтус
Real name: Юлий Сергеевич Мейтус
Effective period / Period of releases: 1938 - 1975
Yuliy Meitus (1903–1997) was a distinguished soviet composer of Jewish descent, considered the founder of the Ukrainian Soviet opera. His early style was modernistic, later he used more traditional neo-Romantic idioms. He is famous for his 18 operas, a number of orchestral works and about 300 songs on Ukrainian and Russian classical poems.