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Oleksandr Bilash (Oleksandr Ivanovych Bilash) was born on 6 March, 1931 in Hradyzk, Ukrainian SSR, is a Musical artist. Discover Oleksandr Bilash's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

Popular As Oleksandr Ivanovych Bilash
Occupation Composer
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 6 March 1931
Birthday 6 March
Birthplace Hradyzk, Ukrainian SSR
Date of death 6 May, 2003
Died Place N/A
Nationality Ukraine

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1931

Oleksandr Ivanovych Bilash (also spelt Olexandr Bilash, Alexander Bilash, Олександр Іванович Білаш) (6 March 1931 – 6 May 2003) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer and the author of popular lyric songs, ballads, operas, operettas, oratorios and music for films.

Bilash was born on 6 March 1931 in the town of Hradyzk, Ukraine (now Kremenchuk Raion of Poltava Oblast, Ukraine) to a family of skilled amateur musicians.

His father, Ivan Panasovych Bilash, played balalaika and guitar; his mother, Yevdokiya Andriyivna, was a solo singer at rural gatherings.

After studying for a year in the Kyiv music school for adults, Oleksandr traveled to the city of Zhytomyr where he entered the second year of the Viktor Kosenko Music School.

1935

His wife was famous Ukrainian singer Larysa Ostapenko-Bilash (1935–2010) with whom he had two daughters Lesya and Oksana.

1951

In 1951, Bilash had successfully passed the entrance examinations for entry into the faculty of Composition of the Kyiv Conservatory.

He studied composition with the outstanding Ukrainian composer and teaching professor Mykola Vilinsky.

1956

From 1956–1961 Bilash worked as an Instructor of music theory at the Kyiv Pedagogical Institute (Kyiv Teachers Training Institute, now Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University).

Already Bilash had emerged as a pre-eminent and prolific Ukrainian composer who had contributed immensely to variety of musical genres and styles.

Many of his lyric songs became very popular in Ukraine.

His lyric songs have become a part of the 'golden fund' of Ukrainian national culture and many of them are often perceived as traditional folk songs.

1957

Oleksandr Bilash graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory in 1957.

1960

One of them - "Roman and Francesca" (1960) with the celebrated lyric songs by Bilash was the first Soviet film (musical) where love between a Soviet sailor and a foreign girl was not criminalized.

1965

He composed the opera "Haydamaky" (1965), "The Ballad of War" (1971), "The Grooms" (1985), operetta "The Legend of Kyiv", "The Bells of Russia".

Bilash opposed the soundtrack to numerous movies.

1975

Laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize (1975), People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1977), People's Artist of the USSR (1990), Hero of Ukraine (2001).

Among others, Bilash received the State Taras Shevchenko Award (1975), titles of People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1977) and People's Artist of the USSR (1990).

1976

From 1976 to 1994 Bilash served as the Chairman of the Kyiv branch of the Union of Composers of Ukraine.

Oleksandr Bilash was one of the most highly regarded Ukrainian composers and his creative output was highly praised.

1986

At the time of Chernobyl nuclear accident in April 1986, the popular lyric song "Dva kolyory" (Two colors) composed by Oleksandr Bilash sounded like a revelation.

2001

In March 2001, the honorable title of the Hero of Ukraine (the highest State degree of recognition in Ukraine) was bestowed upon him for his 'outstanding personal contribution to the enrichment of the spiritual treasures of the Ukrainian people and many years of fruitful creative activity' (6 March 2001).

2003

Oleksandr Bilash died on 6 May 2003 in Kyiv.

He was buried at the Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv, the burial place of the Ukrainian elite.