brother Dimitry Markevitch became a noted musicologist and cellist. The Ukrainian Markevitch (also spelled in Polish as Markiewicz) family is believed to have originated 300 years ago from a common paternal ancestor and his wife. Their ethnicity is disputed as Polish, Ukrainian, or Serbian, as the patronymic name is widespread among central European peoples. In Budapest on 20 April 1936 Markevitch married Kyra Nijinsky (1913-1998), daughter of the great ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky and his wife Romola de Pulszky. they had a son Vaslav Markevitch (b. 20 January 1937) before they divorced. Secondly, Markevitch married in Lausanne on 22 July 1947 Donna Topazia Caetani (1921-1990), the only child of Don Michelangelo Caetani dei Duchi di Sermoneta and his wife, the former Cora Antinori. Cora Caetani ran the boutique of Jansen, the Paris decorating firm. Their son, Oleg Caetani Markevitch (b. 1956), became chief conductor and artistic director of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Australia. They also had two daughters together: Allegra (b. 1950) and Natalia (Nathalie, b. 1951), and another son, Timour Markevitch (1960-1962). Works Compositions Noces, suite for piano (1925) Sinfonietta in F major (1928-9) Piano Concerto (1929) Cantate for soprano, male chorus & orchestra (1929–30) (text by Jean Cocteau) Concerto Grosso (1930) Partita for piano and small orchestra (1930–31) Serenade for violin, clarinet and bassoon (1931) Rébus, ballet (1931) Cinéma-Ouverture (1931) Galop for 8 or 9 players (1932) L'envol d'Icare, ballet (1932); recomposed as Icare (1943) Hymnes for orchestra (1932–33) (revised version 1980 with ad lib contralto and extra movement orchestrated from No. 3 of Trois poèmes of 1935) Petite suite d’apres Schumann for small orchestra (1933) Psaume for soprano and small orchestra (1933) Le paradis perdu, oratorio (1934–35) (text by Markevitch after John Milton) Trois poèmes for high voice and piano (1935) (texts by Cocteau, Plato, Goethe); No.3 orchestrated 1936 as Hymne à la mort, incorporated 1980 into Hymnes for orchestra Cantique d’amour for orchestra (1936) Le nouvel âge, sinfonia concertante for orchestra with 2 pianos (1937) La Taille de l’homme, 'concert inachevée' for soprano and 12 instruments (1938–39, unfinished, but Part I complete and performable) Stefan le poète, 'impressions d’enfance' pour piano (1939–40) Lorenzo il magnifico, sinfonia concertante for soprano and orchestra (1940) (texts by Lorenzo de Medici) Variations, Fugue et Envoi on a Theme of Handel for piano (1941) Le Bleu Danube, valse de concert on themes by Johann Strauss (1944) 6 Songs of Mussorgsky