About Ihor Sonevytsky
Lived 1926 – 2006 (aged 79–80). Ihor Sonevytsky was a Ukrainian conductor, composer, musicologist, pianist and music educator.
Ihor Sonevytsky (Ukrainian: Ігор Михайлович Соневицький) (1926–2006) was a Ukrainian-born composer, conductor, pianist and musicologist.
Life Born on 2 January 1926 in Hadynkivtsi, Galicia (now in Western Ukraine), Ihor Sonevytsky was the son of Dr. Michael Sonevytsky (Ukrainian: Михайло Соневицький), a noted Ukrainian classical philologist, and Olha Sonevytsky, a journalist. He studied at the Vienna Musical Academy and completed his musical studies with a diploma in composition, conducting and piano performance from the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik, Munich (1950) and the Ukrainian Free University, Munich (1961).
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Who was Ihor Sonevytsky?
Ukrainian composer
When was Ihor Sonevytsky born?
Ihor Sonevytsky was born on 2 January 1926 in Hadynkivtsi.
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Ihor Sonevytsky died in 2006 in New York.
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Ihor Sonevytsky was a conductor, composer, musicologist, pianist and music educator.
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Ihor Sonevytsky was Ukrainian.
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