Mykola Leontovych
Mykola Leontovych specialised in a cappella choral music. He is remembered today mostly through the musical works he left behind, which include over 150 choral compositions. These range from artistic arrangements of folk songs, religious works (including his liturgy), cantatas, and choral compositions set to the words of various Ukrainian poets. His two most famous works are the choral miniatures "Schedryk" and "Dudaryk".
Leonid Desyatnikov
Leonid Desyatnikov was born in 1955 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He is a graduate of the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied composition and instrumentation. Desyatnikov has penned four opera, several cantatas and numerous vocal and instrumental compositions. His principal compositions include: "The Children of Rosenthal" (an opera in two acts; libretto, Vladimir Sorokin), commissioned by the Bolshoi Theatre; "Poor Liza" (a chamber opera in one act; libretto, Leonid Desyatnikov, after the novel by Nikolai Karamzin); "Gift" (a cantata based on the verses of Gavrila Derzhavin); "The Leaden Echo" (a work for voice(s) and instruments based on the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins); and "The Rite of Winter 1949" (a symphony for chorus, soloists and orchestra).