Sick Of It All - No Apologies

FILIPPENKO Arkady Dmitrievich [p. 26 XII 1911 (8 I 1912), Kiev] - Soviet composer and societies. figure. Nar art.USSR (1969). Ch. The CPSU from 1947. Until 1932 he worked as a turner for metal at the Kiev Shipyard, studied at the evening work faculty at the Musical Drama. Institute. H V. Lysenko. In 1939 he graduated from the Kiev Conservatory with a composition class with L.N. Revutsky. Ch. Presidium (since 1968) and deputy. Chairman (since 1973) of the CC of Ukraine, Secretary of the Board of the CC of the USSR (since 1968). For the F. composer, a frequent appeal to the social citizen is characteristic. topics of our time. His music is melodic, marked nat. coloring. Most clearly F. proved himself in the genres of mass songs (solo and choral) and songs for children. That means. contribution to the development of owls. chamber music became his quartets.