Dmitry Lybin was born in 1963 in Minsk. He graduated with honours from the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music with a major in musicology (under the guidance of professor I. Ryzhkin class) and the Belarusian State Academy of Music majoring in composition (under the guidance of professor D. Smolsky). He completed an internship at the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory and the Chopin Warsaw Academy of Music.
In his work, Dmitry Lybin combines traditional and avant-garde methods of composition. He is the author of the music for symphony, chamber, wind and folk orchestras. The composer's repertoire includes pieces for various instrumental combinations, solo instruments, vocal and choral cycles.
You can check out Dmitry Lybin’s manuscripts online in the electronic resource “Manuscripts of the Modern Belarusians Authors from the Collections of the National Library of Belarus". Here you will find the author’s orchestral pieces: “Ascent to Mozart”, “Postscriptum”, “From Krakow to Vienna”; pieces for various instruments: “Faces of the Constellations” (a suite for violin, viola, cello and piano), “Seven Little Fantasies on a theme by Glinka” (for flute, guitar and string quartet), “Ancient Suite” (for flute and harpsichord). The online collection also contains music sheets of the composer's works inspired by literature and images of nature: a vocal cycle with lyrics by Robert Burns, William Shakespeare and George Gordon Byron in translation by Samuel Marshak “From English and Scottish Poetry”, as well as “Six Poems by A. Pushkin”, “ Reflections of the Sun in the Water” and others. The author has granted the National Library of Belarus the right to use them.
The electronic resource “Manuscripts of the Modern Belarusians Authors from the Collections of the National Library of Belarus” is aimed at popularizing the Belarusian musical culture domestically and abroad. The collection has been regularly updated. It is expected that by the end of 2020 it will gather more than 600 works by 98 Belarusian authors who have concluded copyright agreements with the National Library of Belarus. The resource will be useful to historians, musicologists, teachers and students of musical institutions, students of music schools and everyone who is interested in the current Belarusian music.
Author: Mr V. Pshibytko, Digitization and Preservation of the Library Documents Centre
