Julius Meytuss

Yuliy Serhiyovych Meitus (Ukrainian: Юлій Сергійович Мейтус; 28 January 1903, Yelysavethrad – 2 April 1997, Kyiv), 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.as born Meitus was born to a Jewish family. In 1919 he graduated from the School of Music in piano from Heinrich Neuhaus, and from the Kharkiv Institute of Music and Drama in the composition class of C.