Yaroslav Yaroslavenko

Yaroslavenko's house prior to being demolished

Yaroslav Yaroslavenko (March 30, 1880 – June 26, 1958) was a Ukrainian composer who wrote the music for "Za Ukrainu" and a son of Ukrainian writer and poet Demeter Więckowski and Anna de Weryha-Wysoczańska-Pietrusiewicz.

He studied at the Lviv Conservatory from 1898 to 1900, and graduated with a degree in engineering from the Lviv Polytechnic Institute in 1904. He co-founded the Torban music publishing house in 1906 and was its director for over thirty years.

References

• "Yaroslavenko, Yaroslav." Encyclopedia of Ukraine V [St-Z]. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.
• "Yaroslavenko, Yaroslav." in: Bernandt, G. and A. Dolzhanskiĭ. Sovetskie Kompozitory: Kratkiĭ Biograficheskiĭ Spravochnik. Moskva: Sovetskiĭ Kompozitor, 1957.