Russia on the Eve of Modernity by Leonid Heretz

In 1990 he moved to the US at the invitation of the Ukrainian Music Society. In 1987 he worked as an editor for ' Sovetskaya muzika' magazine. His works include Dramatic, Orchestral, Chamber, Vocal Music and music for solo instruments. He was one of the first Soviet composers to adopt minimalism. Leonid was active as a composer, editor, and translator. He belonged to group of the so-called Kiev avant-garde (as well as Hodzyatsky, Huba, Silvestrov, Yevhen Stankovych and Zahortsev). In the early 1960s Hrabovsky taught theory and composition at the Kiev Conservatory. Shostakovich wrote about this: 'the Ukrainian Songs by Hrabovsky pleased me immensely-his arrangements attracted me by the freedom of treatment and good choral writing'. His diploma work 'Four Ukrainian Songs' for chorus and orchestra (1959) which won first prize in an all-union competition.

Hrabovsky studied economics at Kiev University (1951–1956), and from 1954 composition under Boris Lyatoshynsky and Lev Revutsky at Kiev Conservatory which he graduated in 1959. Leonid Hrabovsky is one of the group of Ukrainian composers whose works indicated the opening of the modernist era in Ukrainian music of the late 20 century. Leonid Oleksandrovych Hrabovsky (also Hrabovsky or Hrabovs'ky, Ukrainian: Леонід Олександрович Грабо́вський Russian: Леони́д Алекса́ндрович Грабо́вский, Leonid Alexandrovitch Grabovsky) (born 28 January 1935) is a contemporary Ukrainian composer, now living in the United States.

Russia on the Eve of Modernity by Leonid Heretz