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Igor Markevitch
Igor Markevitch
Ukrainian conductor and composer
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Andrii Shtoharenko
Andrii Shtoharenko
Soviet composer
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Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev
Ukrainian & Russian Soviet pianist and composer
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer, pianist and conductor
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Edison Denisov
Edison Denisov
Russian Soviet composer
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Reinhold Glière
Reinhold Glière
Soviet Ukrainian composer
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Valentyn Sylvestrov
Valentyn Sylvestrov
Ukrainian pianist and composer
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David Oistrakh
David Oistrakh
Soviet violinist
Ihor Shamo
Ukrainian composer

Ihor Shamo

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Ukrainian composer
Genres
Awards Received
Order of Friendship of Peoples
Order of the Badge of Honour
Honored Art Worker of the USSR
People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR
Shevchenko National Prize
Medal "For Labour Valour"
Music
Memorial to the Ukrainian composer Ihor Shamo in Kostolna St., Kiev, Ukraine

Ihor Naumovich Shamo (Ukrainian Iгор Наумович Шамо; Russian: Игорь Наумович Шамо, also Romanized Igor) (21 February 1925 - 17 August 1982) was a Ukrainian composer.

Shamo was born in Kiev to a family of Jewish origin. He graduated from the Lysenko Music School in Kiev, where his main subjects were composition and piano, in 1941, and was evacuated in that year to Ufa, where he studied medicine for two years. From 1942 to 1946 he was in the Soviet Army as a medical assistant; when he returned to Kiev he recommenced his musical studies, graduating from the Kiev Conservatory in 1951 in the class of Boris Lyatoshinsky. He had joined the Union of Soviet Composers in 1948, and at his graduation played his own Concert-Ballade for piano and orchestra.

His popular song Kyieve Mii (My Kyiv) is regarded as the "unofficial anthem of the Ukrainian capital", and is cited on his memorial on the building where he lived (see picture). His other works include three symphonies, and an opera Yatranskiye Igri, which is unusually scored for a cappella choir and soloists.