Pylyp Kozytskiy

Pylyp Kozytskiy
Ukrainian composer Pylyp Kozytskiy
Born	Pylyp Omelyanovych Kozytskiy 23 November 1893 Letychivka
Died	27 April 1960 (aged 66) Kiev
Resting place	Baikove Cemetery, Kiev
Nationality	Ukrainian
Occupation	Composer, Musicologist, Educator
Known for	Founder of the Leontovych Musical Society.

Pylyp Omelyanovych Kozytskiy (Ukrainian: Пилип Омелянович Козицький; 23 November [O.S. 11 November] 1893), Letychivka — 27 April 1960, Kiev) was a Ukrainian composer, musicologist, professor, head of the department of history of music at the Kiev Conservatory,^[1] and Honored Artist of Ukraine SSR (1943).^[1]

Greatly influenced by expressionism, Kozytsky's musical works are a mixture of elements of Ukrainian folk music with social and patriotic characteristics, strongly rooted to the national school of classical music of Ukraine established by Mykola Lysenko.

Life

Kozytskiy studied at the Kiev Theological Academy from 1917 and at the Kiev Conservatory from 1920, under Boleslav Yavorsky and Reinhold Glière.^[2] Between 1918-1924, he taught at the Lysenko Music and Drama Institute in Kiev, the Kharkiv Music and Drama Institute from 1925 to 1935, and the Kiev Conservatory.^[2] From 1938 to 1941 he worked as artistic director for the Ukrainian State Philharmonic (during the German-Soviet war).

A founding member of the Leontovych Music Society,^[2] he was also head of the Union of Soviet Composers of Ukraine from 1952 to 1956,^[3] and president of the Choral Society of the Ukrainian SSR from 1959 up to his death in 1960.^[4] Kozytskiy died in Kiev on 27 April 1960, and is buried in the Baikove Cemetery.

Musical works

Operas Unknown Soldier (1934) Jean Giradin (1937) For the Fatherland (1943) - For symphony orchestra Cantatas In memory of the Bolsheviks (1951) - For choir a cappella Hello, Spring (1952) - For children's choir Symphony orchestra Kozak Holota (1925) - Suite Partisan's Daughter (1938) - Poem Variations on a theme of the folk song Kupala (1925) - For String Quartet Variations on a theme of the Bashkirs (1943) Piano Pages of Childhood (1913) 7 Preludes - For voice and piano, with words by P. Tychyna, and R. Tagore

Choir Spring Oratorio (1921) Eight Preludes Songs (1924) Brave Navy (1925) - Diptych, with words by Pavlo Tychyna Eight Ukrainian folk stories (1936) We are the country of Soviet children (1952) Green kudryavchik (1954) Romances Song of Yakir - With words by Volodymyr Sosiura Music for plays The King is amused by Victor Hugo (1927) - For the Berezil Theater Sava Chalyi by Nikolai Gogol (1927) [n 1] Bridgehead by Miroslav Irchan (1932) Music for movies Stozhary (1939) Kuban (1939)

Literary works

• History of Ukrainian Music (Kiev, 1922)
• The mass singing. Allowance for amateur choir (Kharkiv, 1927)
• Bedrich Smetana (Kiev, 1949)
• Scientific studies and articles on the works of Mykola Leontovych, Kyrylo Stetsenko, Boris Lyatoshinsky, Bedřich Smetana and others. (Kiev, 1952)
• Taras Shevchenko and musical culture (Kiev, 1959)
• Singing and Music Academy in Kiev in 300 years of its existence (Kiev, 1971)
• The stepfather of the heroine of the Great Patriotic War Guli Queen

Awards

• Order of Lenin
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor

Notes

1. The legend of Cossack Captain Sava Chaly (executed in 1741 after serving as captain in the private army of the Polish noble family Czetwertyński), tells that his killing was ordered by his own father for betraying the Ukrainian cause.

References

1. Sergey Prokofiev, Oleg Prokofiev, Christopher Palmer (1992). Soviet diary 1927, and other writings. Northeastern University Press. p. 179. ISBN 1555531202. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
2. "Kozitskii Philip Emelyanovich". Slovarist.ru. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
3. The Ukrainian Quarterly, Volume 11. New York: Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. 1955. p. 173. Retrieved 16 May 2015. OCLC 1767936
4. "Kozytsky, Pylyp". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 16 May 2015.

Attribution

• This article is based on the translation of the corresponding article of the Ukrainian Wikipedia. A list of contributors can be found there in the History section.