Yorish, Vladimir Yakovlevich
(1899–1945)
Yorish [Yóreesh] (Iorish), Vladimir Yakovlevich (11–13/25–1899, Yekaterinoslav [now Dnepropetrovsk]; 6–21–1945, Kiev). Cond. and comp. Grad. 1917 as a pianist and 1924 as a comp. and cond. from the Yekaterinoslav Mus. Sch., where his teachers incl. Korchmaryov. Taught at this institution until 1928, then held cond. positions, incl. at the Ukrainian Theater of Opera and Ballet (1934–45). Orchestrated Gulak-Artemovsky's A Cossack Beyond the Danube and Lysenko's Natalka Poltavka, to which he also…