of the Union of Composers of the USSR, he travelled to Bulgaria during the centennial celebrations for the death of Mikhail Glinka. During the last years of his life, Lyatoshynsky completed the Solemn Overture Op. 70 (1967) for orchestra. He died on 15 April 1968, and was buried in the Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv; a bust has since been added to the grave. Honours, awards, and commemorations Stalin Prizes (second class) (1946)for the Ukrainian Quintet; first class (1952)for the music for the 1951 film Taras Shevchenko Shevchenko National Prize (1971) (posthumous) for the opera The Golden Ring People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1968) (1945) Order of Lenin The Polish state prize‘for the strengthening of Russo-Polish friendship’ (1963) The Shevchenko National Prize (awarded posthumously in 1971) A monument to Lyatoshynsky was erected in Zhytomyr in honour of the composer. A commemorative plaque was erected in Kyiv at the house where he lived from 1944 to 1968 (now 68 B. Khmelnytskoho Street), and in 1977 a street in Kyiv was renamed in his honour. A room is dedicated to Lyatoshynsky in the . In 1992 the Kyiv Chamber Choir joined with a newly-formed chamber orchestra, and became the B. Lyatoshynsky Classical Music Ensemble. The is also named after Lyatoshynsky. In 2020 the Kharkiv Music Festival launched the Borys Lyatoshynsky Young Composers Competition. Works Lyatoshynsky wrote a variety of works, including five symphonies, symphonic poems, and several shorter orchestral and vocal works, two operas, chamber music, and a number of works for solo piano. He wrote nearly 50 songs. He produced four string quartets, in 1915, 1922, 1928, and 1943. His earliest compositions (such as his First Symphony) were greatly influenced by the expressionism of Scriabin and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Lyatoshynsky wrote music with a modern European style and technique, skillfully combining it with Ukrainian themes. In 1940, Dmitri Shostakovich visited a plenum of the Union of Soviet Composers in Kiev. There he singled out the music of both Lyatoshinsky and Levko Revutsky for their "high level of craftsmanship" which "pleasantly amazed" him. After the war, Lyatoshynsky was accused of formalism and creation of degenerative art. Liatoshynsky's main works are his operas The Golden Ring and Shchors, the five symphonies, the Overture on Four Ukrainian Folk Themes (1926), the suites Taras Shevchenko (1952) and Romeo and Juliet (1955), the symphonic poem Grazhyna (1955), his "Slavic" concerto for piano and orchestra (1953), and the