ROZHAVSKA, Judith Hryhorivna

Judith (Yudif) Hryhorivna Rozhavska was a Ukrainian composer. She was born in Kyiv. As a child, she was a musical prodigy, playing the piano from the age of five. During the war, she participated in the frontline concert brigades of the Stalingrad Front. In 1946, she graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory with a degree in piano from E. Slyvak, and in 1947 from the composition class of M. Hozenpud; in 1951, she completed postgraduate studies in piano (headed by E. Slyvak). In the postwar years, she was admitted to the Union of Composers. She had an exceptional ear and a phenomenal musical memory - she could immediately write down the notes of a song while listening to it on the radio.

She was the wife of the Kyiv poet Rurik Nemyrovskyi (1923-1991). Her family and colleagues called her "Didi". She wrote many musical compositions for children. However, as a person she was not frivolous, she took new trends in music and life seriously. She composed a number of works in the latest musical techniques (serial, dodecaphony).