Real name: Лев Исаакович Чернецкий

Lev Chernetsky (August 21, 1875, Ananiev, Kherson province - 1945) - military bandmaster of the 8th Don Cossack Regiment (1906) and the 15th Rifle Regiment of His Majesty King Nicholas I of Montenegro (1910), conductor of the Orchestra of Russian military invalids, composer .
On gramophone records and in musical publications, it was usually indicated as “L. Chernetsky (son) / «Л. Чернецкий (сын)».
His father, Isaak Isaevich Chernetsky (April 12, 1852, Ananiev, Kherson province - December 15, 1908, Chisinau, Bessarabia province), was the author of the Blue Distance and Ancient March marches. Cousin - composer S. A. Chernetsky, under whose direction the Brass Band of the Military Ministry of the USSR recorded some of the works of L. I. Chernetsky, including the waltz "Happiness in Love" (Only happiness in love) and the dance "Hungarian", as well as waltz "Blue Distance" by Isaak Chernetsky (1944).
The last place of service as a bandmaster in 1918 was the 14th Rifle Regiment named after Field Marshal Gurko. He emigrated with his family to France.
A number of recordings were made in the 1930s by the Orchestra of Russian military invalids under the direction of L. I. Chernetsky (Orchestre Militaire des Invalides Russes Mutilés de Guerre), organized by him in 1930 in Paris.
Since 1926, he led the class of the ensemble of wind instruments at the Russian Conservatory in Paris.