Guba, Vladimir Petrovich

Guba [Gubá] (Huba), Vladimir Petrovich (12–22–1938, Kiev). Ukrainian comp. Guba is chiefly known in the West for his stunning sound-fresco Molva (formerly Panneau), a movement from a still unfinished seven-movement work for piano entitled Kiev Suite, and for Autumn Music, a “sinfonietta for chamber orchestra.” His father, a musician with one of the numerous brass bands in the Ukraine, gave him his first music lessons. Later, he studied composition with Lyatoshinsky and Shtogarenko at the Kiev…