Sound · Original Music Composer
Born Jan 28, 1903 · Elizavetgrad, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Active 1932–1997 · Awards: Stalin Prize, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, Order of Friendship of Peoples, Medal "For Labour Valour", Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kyiv"
Yuliy Serhiyovych Meitus, was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer, considered the founder of the Ukrainian Soviet opera. His early style was modernistic, later he used more traditional neo-Romantic idioms.