A brilliant composer, brilliant since childhood, and childhood was bright and short, short because at the age of 13 he had already entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory for three faculties at once. He became an adult early, he did not "finish playing" like a child, so he remembered his childhood dreams all his life and wrote fairy tale operas for children.As a child, he lived in the expanse of the Kherson land, called himself a "steppe boy", lived in the sounds and harmonies of folk songs, the rustle of herbs, the voices of birds, piano pieces of world classics played by his mother on the piano....
