Heorhiy Tkachenko

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Heorhiy Kyrylowytsch Tkachenko ( Ukrainian Георгій Кирилович Ткаченко , Russian Георгий Кириллович Ткаченко Georgi Kirillovich Tkachenko * April 23 jul. / 5. May  1898 greg. In Gluschkowo , Kursk , Russian Empire ; † 11. December 1993 in Kiev , Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian kobzar , architect and painter.

Life

Heorhij Tkachenko was born into a poor family of craftsmen in Eastern Sloboda ( Східна Слобожанщина ). After attending the village school, he went to the Kursk secondary school and from 1917 studied at the Kharkiv Art Academy. After graduation, he attended the Moscow Art Institute from 1922, which he graduated in 1929 and received the title of architect.

He then moved to Kharkiv , where he learned to play the instrument Bandura masterfully from the well-known Kobsari Petro Drewtschenko ( Петро Семенович Древченко ; 1863-1934) . After the Second World War he moved to Kiev where he worked as an artist. In addition, always accompanied by his bandura, he undertook extensive trips through the Ukraine, wrote folk songs, painted watercolors, mainly of landscapes and traditional architecture, such as some of the wooden churches that no longer exist today . His work has been presented in exhibitions in Kiev.

As Kobsar, Tkachenko gave concerts at the Kiev Opera House , toured the Ukraine and performed in Moscow in 1970 and Leningrad in 1971. He was the mentor and teacher of many young bandura players. Tkachenko died in Kiev at the age of 95.

The 1988 film by the director and Taras Shevchenko Prize winner Oleh Bijma ( Олег Іванович Бійма ; * 1949) Dorohy kobsarski was about him.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ukrainian kobsars of eastern Slobozhanshchyna on haidamaka.org.ua ; accessed on 2018 (ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c Entry on Heorhij Tkatschenko in UKRMUSIC.ORG ; accessed on 2018 (ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b Heorhij Tkachenko on bandurka.etnoua.info ; accessed on 2018 (ukrainian)
  4. ↑ a b c Entry on Heorhij Tkachenko on kobzari.org.ua ; accessed on 2018 (ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Tkachenko, Heorhiy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tkachenko, Heorhij Kyrylowytsch (full name); Ткаченко, Георгій Кирилович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian kobsar
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Glushkovo , Kursk Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1993
Place of death Kiev , Ukraine