Leonid Hrabovsky is one of the key figures of the Ukrainian musical avant-garde. Together with Silvestrov, Huba, and Zahortsev, he led the movement to renew Ukrainian music in the 1960s, when Socialist Realism still dominated the USSR.
Works: Symphonic Frescoes; Homeomorphy (a cycle of aleatoric pieces); Temnere mortem (for mixed chamber chorus a cappella on texts by Hryhoriy Skovoroda); La Mer for speaker, chorus, organ, and orchestra; Concerto Misterioso. Hrabovsky experiments with dodecaphony, sonorism, aleatoric technique, and numerical systems (using the Fibonacci sequence and golden ratio in the structure of works). Since 1990 he has lived in New York, yet maintains close ties with Ukrainian culture; after 2022 he actively supports Ukrainian refugees and writes works in support of the struggle.
