Igor Boelza, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Igor Boelza

Soviet composer

Date of Birth: 08-Feb-1904

Place of Birth: Kielce, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 05-Jan-1994

Profession: composer, literary historian, musicologist, music pedagogue, music historian

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Igor Fyodorovich Boelza (????? ????????? ?????; 8 February 1904 – 5 January 1994) was a Soviet music historian and composer who wrote 4 symphonies, 5 piano sonatas, 2 cello sonatas, a string quartet, and several film scores for Alexander Dovzhenko.
He was the father of Svyatoslav Belza, a showman and a TV personality. Boelza was born in Kielce into a noble Polish family which moved to Kiev after the outbreak of the First World War.
He studied at the Kiev Conservatory with Boris Lyatoshinsky.
Belza delivered lectures in the Kiev State University until the German invasion of Ukraine forced him to move to Moscow and join the staff of the Moscow Conservatory. Boelza authored a slate of books about Mozart (1941), Alexander Borodin (1944), Antonín Dvorák (1949), Reinhold Glière (1955), Maria Szymanowska (1956), Vítezslav Novák (1957), Frédéric Chopin (1960), Michal Kleofas Oginski (1965), and some lesser known Polish musicians.
He received a Doctorate, honoris causa, from the Charles University of Prague, in 1967.