Yakiv Lapynskyi
personal-info
known-for
Sound
gender
Male
birthday
1928-01-07
place-of-birth
Uman, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine]
also-known-as
Yakov Lapinskiy
Jacob Lapinsky
Jakow Lapinski
Я. Лапинский
biography
A Soviet Ukrainian-born composer educated at the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, Yakiv Lapynskyi is most known for his work in Yevgeni Sherstobitov's The Andromeda Nebula. Lapynskyi received the Honored Art Worker of Ukraine medal in 1991. He died on January 30th, 2020, in Darmstadt, Germany.