Composer Ihar Luchanok Died

The People's Artist of Belarus was 80 years old.

Belarusian composer, People’s Artist of Belarus and the USSR Ihar Luchanok died. This was announced on Facebook by composer Heorhiy Surauniou. Ihar Luchanok was 80 years old.

Anatol Yarmolenka, people's artist and head of the Siabry ensemble, also reported about the composer’s death, tut.by reports.

The day before, Ihar Luchanok was hospitalized with a stroke in the City Clinical Emergency Hospital. For several days, he was in serious condition.

Ihar Luchanok was born on August 6, 1938. Luchanok’s mother was a teacher of chemistry and biology, and then the director of an evening school. The composer’s father worked as a doctor, but he was directly related to art, Ihar Luchanok said in an interview to Nastaunitskaya Hazeta.

– Uladzislau Halubok learned about self-taught violinist Luchanok and invited him to join his theater.

Ihar Luchanok studied to play two instruments, cymbals and the piano, at the music school under the Conservatory. In 1961, he graduated from the Belarusian State Conservatory named after Lunacharsky, after which he taught a lot in music schools and colleges, as well as at the Pedagogical Institute. In 1982, Luchanok became the rector of the conservatory – the current Academy of Music.

Ihar Luchanok wrote music in different genres – free-symphonic, chamber-instrumental, chamber-vocal, and he wrote songs very productively.

Songs to music by Ihar Luchanok were performed by Pesniary, Siabry, Verasy, Iosif Kobzon, Sofia Rotaru, Valentina Tolkunova, Lev Leshchenko, Eduard Khil and many others.

He wrote music to the poems of Yakub Kolas, Yanka Kupala, Maksim Bahdanovich, Ryhor Baradulin, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Robert Rodzhestvensky, Arkadz Kuliashou, Pimen Panchanka, Hennadz Buraukin.

Ihar Luchanok is the author of such hits of his time as “Alesia”, “Polka Belarusskaya”, “Maiski Vals”, “Cranes are Flying to Palesse”, “Moi Rodny Kut”, “If Stones Could Speak”, “A Letter From 1945”,“ Song of Minsk. ” The motif from the latter, by the way, is beaten every hour by the chimes of the Minsk Town Hall.

In 1987, Ihar Luchanok was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR. Since 1980, he was the permanent chairman of the Belarusian Union of Composers.

The date and place of wake have not been reported yet.