Andrij Bobyr
Andrij Matwijowytsch Bobyr ( Ukrainian Андрій Матвійович Бобир ; born November 30, jul. / 13. December 1915 greg. In Nytschyporiwka , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 18th May 1994 in Kiev , Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian Kobzar ( bandura - and singer ), Conductor and music teacher.
Life
Andrij Bobyr was born during the First World War in the village of Nychyporivka in what is now Jahotyn Raion in the Ukrainian Oblast , as a descendant of a Kobsar, according to village legends. In the 1920s he learned his first skills in playing bandura from bandura players traveling through, but he first studied choral conducting in Kiev. He gave his first concert there at the Galician Bazaar . From 1936 he was a Bandura player at the Ukrainian Radio in Kiev and between 1937 and 1941 he was a student at the Kiev Conservatory in the class of Mykola Hryssenko ( Микола Григорович Грисенко ; 1889-1995).
In the German-Soviet War Bobyr was drafted as a soldier and trained as a fighter pilot in a flight school in Georgia. He then served as the pilot of a Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter aircraft of the Red Army Air Force in the 1st Squadron of the 212th Air Force Regiment ( 212-го гвардійського авіаполку ).
After the war he studied in the class of Hryhorij Werowka and Hryhorij Kompanijez ( Григорій Ісакович Компанієць ; 1881–1959) at the Kiev Conservatory and completed it in 1947. He then attended a postgraduate course at the Conservatory with Alexander Ignatjewitsch (1874–1974) , which he graduated in 1951.
From 1946 to 1965 he was the artistic director of the Bandura Ensemble of the Ukrainian Radio, and in 1965 he became the artistic director and chief conductor of the Academic Orchestra of Folk Instruments of the Ukrainian State Television and Radio. Between 1949 and 1979 he taught at the Kiev Conservatory and from 1992 he worked at the State Museum of Theater, Music and Cinematography of Ukraine on Lavrska Street ( вулиці Лаврській ) in the Pechersk district of Kiev .
Bobyr wrote more than 500 arrangements of folk songs and dances for Bandura.
Honors
Web links
- S. Dymchenko - Knight of the Magic Strings : (On the 90th birthday of Andrij Bobyr) in Folk Art and Ethnography № 5/2005; Pp. 107-111. (Ukrainian)
- БУЛА ЗИМА З ВІДЛИГОЮ ... in Nova Gazeta 2013 (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c With a bandura in the wing of the aircraft on newpathway.ca from December 22, 2015; accessed on July 11, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b c d "Bandurist, grauer Adler ..." On the 100th birthday of Andrij Bobyr - bandurist, pilot, conductor; on radiosvoboda.org January 4, 2016; accessed on July 11, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b c d Entry on Andrij Bobyr in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on July 11, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Entry on Hryhorij Issakowytsch Kompaniyets in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on July 11, 2020 (Ukrainian)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bobyr, Andrij |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bobyr, Andrij Matwijowytsch (full name); Бобир, Андрій Матвійович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian kobzar, conductor and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nychyporivka , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 1994 |
| Place of death | Kiev , Ukraine |