Kyrylo Stetsenko

Kyrylo Stezenko between 1911 and 1922

Kyrylo Hryhorowytsch Stezenko ( Ukrainian Кирило Григорович Стеценко , Russian Кирилл Григорьевич Стеценко ; born May 12, ^jul. / 24. May  1882 ^greg. In the village Kwitki at Korsun ; † 29. April 1922 in Weprik in Fastiv ) was a Ukrainian composer , choral director , Music pedagogue and priest .

Life

Stetsenko grew up in a large family (the eighth of 11 children). His father was a self-taught painter and icon painter , and his mother, the daughter of the local deacon , loved music , so that he came into close contact with drawing and folk songs as a child . In 1892 his maternal uncle took him to Kiev , where the boy now attended M. Murashko's drawing school and the Burse of the St. Sophia Cathedral . From 1899 he sang in Mykola Lyssenkos choir , in which he later became the conductor's assistant . He graduated from the Kiev Spiritual Academy in 1903. He then worked as a music teacher, music critic and composer. To this end he studied at Lysenko's music theater school until 1907 .

In 1907 he was arrested for social activities and exiled to what is now Donetsk Oblast . In 1908 he was able to return and taught singing in Bila Tserkva .

In 1911 the Ukrainian hymn Shche ne wmerla Ukrajina with Stezenko's choral version was published without censorship . The printer A. Chokolov assumed sole responsibility and was sentenced to death, while Stetsenko, whose complicity could not be proven, was banished from Kiev. At the insistence of his uncle, Stetsenko was ordained a priest and was given a parish in Podolia .

After the February Revolution of 1917 , Stetsenko returned to Kiev. In the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic , he headed the music department of the Ministry of Education. He organized the First Kiev Folk Choir and two traveling bands . One chapel, led by Oleksandr Koschyz, toured Western Europe and the United States to promote independent Ukraine, while the other, under Stezenko's leadership, traveled through Ukraine to strengthen national unity. He promoted the national Ukrainian music founded by Lysenko, which was addressed to the common people and centered on the sung word. The focus of his compositional work was on choirs and cantatas, in particular on outstanding figures from Ukrainian past and present ( Taras Shevchenko , Pawlo Hrabowski , Iwan Franko , Lesja Ukrajinka , Oleksandr Oles , Hryhorij Kwitka-Osnowjanenko ). In folk song collections, Stezenko's works stood alongside those by Lysenko, Koschyz and Mykola Leontowytsch .

After the Bolsheviks came to power , Stezenko's chapel was dissolved. In 1921 he became a pastor in Weprik, where only Ukrainian was spoken. He was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church . In Weprik he founded a choir and a theater. He died of typhus .

In 1982, a Stezenko museum was set up in Weprik, the place where he died, as well as in his place of birth, Kwitki. In Kiev and Lviv streets were named after him.

Web links

Commons : Kyrylo Stezenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Русский огонек: Стеценко Кирилл (композитор) (accessed June 20, 2017).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Кирило Григорович Стеценко - композитор, диригент, священик, громадський діяч (accessed June 21, 2017).