Summary Nikolay Vitalievich Lysenko


NIKOLAI VITALEVICH LYSENKO

1842-1912

The founder of the Ukrainian national composer school, Lysenko was the largest connoisseur of folk songs and a musical and public figure, choral conductor and pianist. His musical heritage includes operas, cantatas, romances, piano pieces and other instruments. The outstanding talent of the composer was most fully manifested in the field of opera. Lysenko’s works, combining the traditions of Ukrainian folk theater and Russian classics, served as the foundation for Ukrainian opera art.

Nikolai Vitalievich Lysenko was born on March 10 (22), 1842 in the village of Grinky in the Poltava province. Here he spent his childhood and early youth. Even then, there was an interest in folk art, throughout his life he collected, studied and processed his samples. The composer owns over six hundred folk song treatments.

In 1865, Lysenko graduated from Kiev University, and in 1869 – the Leipzig Conservatory. In 1874-1876 he

studied composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under the leadership of NA Rimsky-Korsakov.

The eighties open a period of prosperity. Lysenko focuses on the extensive vocal cycle “Music for” Kobzar “Shevchenko”, which included 83 works of different genres. By the same time, the creation of the operas Drowned (on the plot of Gogol’s May Night, 1883), and Natalka-Poltavka (1889). The heroic-romantic opera “Taras Bulba” (according to Gogol, 1880-1890) is the peak of Lysenko’s work.

In 1904, Lysenko founded the Music and Drama School in Kiev, which became the main nursery of professional cadres of Ukrainian musical art. On the events of 1905 the composer responded with a wonderful choral composition “The Eternal Revolutionary” (words of I. Ya. Franco). Lysenko’s revolutionary-democratic sympathies were also testified by the satire of the autocracy – the opera “Aeneid” (according to Kotlyarevsky, 1910).

Lysenko died in Kiev on October 24 (November 6) in 1912.


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Summary Nikolay Vitalievich Lysenko