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Ihor Boleslavovych Piaskovsky (Ukrainian: Ігор Болеславович Пясковський, December 15, 1946, Vienna — July, 2nd 2012) was a Ukrainian musicologist, Doctor of Arts, Professor, Head of the Department of Music Theory at the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music in 2007–2012.^[1]

In 1970, he graduated from the historical and theoretical faculty of the Kyiv Conservatory in the class of F. I. Aerova. He also studied composition with Yurii Ishchenko, completed his postgraduate studies (1970-1974), and since 1973 has been a senior lecturer at the Department of History of Ukrainian and Russian Music, later an associate professor and then a professor at the Department of Music Theory at the Kyiv Conservatory.^[1] In 1990, he defended his doctoral dissertation ("Logical and Constructive Principles of Musical Thinking"), and since 2007 he has been the Head of the Department of Music Theory.^[2][3]

He is the author of the monograph "Logic of Musical Thinking" (Kyiv, 1987), a manual on polyphony for higher musical institutions (Kyiv, 2003), a textbook "Polyphony in Ukrainian Music" (2012), articles on the phenomenon and evolution of musical thinking, problems of musical semiotics, computer analysis and synthesis of musical texts. He is the author of Sonata for Flute and Piano (published in 1973), String Quartet, chamber opera The Adventures of John the Bold (based on works by S. Lem), piano works - the piano cycle “Fugues and Postludes”, Piano pieces "Three Fractals (Sea. Clouds. Birth of Rocks)," experimental pieces "Dominoes," "Sounding Schedule," and "Two in Five”.^[1]