Platon Maiboroda is one of the most beloved Ukrainian song composers of the 20th century, whose melodies became truly of the people. In a fruitful collaboration with the poet Andriy Malyshko he created a whole series of gems of Ukrainian lyrical song.
The most famous of them is the “Song of the Rushnyk” (“Ridna maty moya, ty nochey ne dospala…”), a hymn to a mother's love that is known and sung in every Ukrainian family, abroad and at home. From his pen also came the “Kyiv Waltz” (“Znovu tsvitut kashtany”), “My pidemo, de travy pokhyli,” and many others. Maiboroda possessed the rare gift of a melodist: his songs are simple, sincere, and at the same time deep; they linger in the heart and are passed from generation to generation as a living treasure of Ukrainian culture.
