Bohatyrov, Semen

Bohatyrov, Semen [Богатирьов, Семен; Bohatyr'ov], b 15 February 1890 in Kharkiv, d 31 December 1960 in Moscow. Musicologist, composer, and pedagogue. After graduating from Kharkiv University (1912) and the Petrograd Conservatory (1916) he taught at and was the director (from 1935) of the Kharkiv Conservatory. Among his students were Dmytro Klebanov, Mykola Koliada, Yulii Meitus, Mykola Fomenko, Volodymyr Nakhabin, George Oransky, and Andrii Shtoharenko. In 1943 he became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Bohatyrov edited and finished Peter Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no. 7 (1956), which was premiered by the Philadelphia Philharmonic Orchestra.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]