Mykola Wilinskyj

Mykola Wilinskyj

Mykola Mykolajowytsch Wilinskyj ( Ukrainian Микола Миколайович Вілінський , Russian Николай Николаевич Вилинский / Nikolai Nikolaevich Wilinski ; * April 20 ^jul. / 2. May  1888 ^greg. In Golta at Pervomaisk in Kherson Gubernia , † 7. September 1956 in Kiev ) was a Russian - Ukrainian composer and university professor .

Life

Wilinskyj came from a noble family and was cousin of the soprano and opera singer Xenia Derschinskaja and the musicologist Alexander Ossowski . Wilinskyj attended high school in Ananjiw and also trained as a musician, to which his mother also contributed as a former pianist . He conducted a church choir and organized a school orchestra with folk musical instruments . However, after graduating from high school in 1906, at the insistence of his father, he began to study at the law faculty of the New Russian University in Odessa , which he successfully completed in 1912. He then studied composition at the Odessa Conservatory (graduated in 1919) with Witold Maliszewski , whose favorite student he became.

In 1920 Wilinskyj began teaching at the Odessa Conservatory (in 1926 appointed professor). He headed the Odessa Oblast Organization of the Union of Composers of Ukraine , in which his deputy and the responsible secretary were his students LS Gurov and SD Orfejew . In the 1930s Emil Gilels and Jelisaweta Gilels , David Oistrach and Jakow Sak studied with him . In 1941, when the German-Soviet War began , Wilinski was evacuated to Tashkent and worked as a professor at the local conservatory. In 1944, after the liberation of Kiev , he became a professor and head of the chair of music theory at the Kiev Conservatory . He composed symphonic suites , cantatas , Ukrainian choral music , romances and chamber music . He also published essays on music theory. He played a major role in the development of Moldova's national musical culture . His students DG Gerschfeld and LS Gurow worked there. Wilinski participated in the publication of the collected works of Mykola Lyssenko .

Further pupils of Wilinskyj were KF Dankewitsch , Oleksandr Bilasch , OB Felzman , AI Mucha , AF Wodowosow and JN Subzow .

Wilinskyj was buried in the Kiev Baikowe cemetery . His daughter Irina Nikolajewna Wilinskaja (1920–1986) became a well-known singing teacher and composer.

Honors

• Order of Lenin
• Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union
• Honored Artist of Ukraine (1951)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Vilinskii (Russian, accessed July 5, 2016).
2. ↑ Walentina Nasarenko: Elegy about Nikolai Wilinski (Russian, accessed July 5, 2016).
3. ↑ On the 125th birthday of Nikolai Wilinski (Russian, accessed July 5, 2016).