Pylyp Kosyzkyj

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Pylyp Kosyzkyj in the 1930s

Pylyp Omeljanowytsch Kosyzkyj ( Ukrainian Пилип Омелянович Козицький , Russian Филипп Емельянович Козицкий Filipp Yemelyanovich Kosizki ; born October 11 . Jul / 23. October  1893 greg. In Letytschiwka , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 27. April 1960 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian composer and musicologist.

Life

Pylyp Kosyzkyj was born into a priestly family in Letychivka in what is now Cherkassy Oblast in the Ukraine. He graduated from the Kiev Theological Academy in 1917 ( Київська духовна академія ) and in 1920 the Kiev Conservatory , where he studied with Boleslaw Jaworskyj and Reinhold Glière and was the conductor of the choir during his studies in 1914 and 1915. After his studies he taught from 1918 to 1924 at the Lyssenko Music and Theater Institute ( Державний музично-драматичний інститут імені М. В. Лисенка ) in Kiev, from 1925 to 1935 at the Kharkov Institute for Drama and from 1925 to 1935 at the Kharkov Institute 1945 taught as a professor. From 1925 to 1935 he was also chairman of the High Music Committee of the People's Commissariat for Education of the USSR in Kharkov. Since 1940 he was a member of the CPSU . From 1939 to 1941 he was artistic director of the Ukrainian State Philharmonic , and from 1952 to 1956 he was the chairman of the Union of Composers of Ukraine . As the organizer of Ukrainian musical life, Kosyzkyj played a crucial role in improving music education and building a network of music schools in Ukraine. He died in Kiev at the age of 66 and was buried there in the Baikowe cemetery .

Kosyzkyj's grave in the Baikowe cemetery

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His compositions were influenced by expressionism and were often based on Ukrainian folk songs. Kosyzkyj's themes were mostly of a social and patriotic nature, his work tied to the national school of Ukrainian classical music founded by Mykola Lysenko . He wrote the operas Невідомі солдати Newidomi soldaty ( Unknown Soldier ; 1934) and За Батьківщину Sa Batkiwschtschynu ( For the Fatherland ; 1943) as well as string quartets, preludes for piano, choral works, church music and arrangements of folk songs. In addition to composing, he wrote a large number of articles and published studies on the works of composers such as Mykola Leontowytsch , Kyrylo Stezenko , Borys Lyatoschynskyj and Bedřich Smetana as well as other musicological works such as Ukrainian folk song (1936) and Taras Shevchenko and musical culture (1942) as well as singing and Music at the Kiev Academy for 300 years (1971).

Honors

Web links

Commons : Pylyp Kosyzkyj  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Entry on Pylyp Kosyzkyj in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on March 22, 2020 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c Entry on Kozytsky, Pylyp in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on March 22, 2020 (English)
  3. ↑ a b c d Entry on Pylyp Kosyzkyj in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on March 22, 2020 (Ukrainian)
  4. ^ Entry on Baikowe Cemetery in the Kiev Encyclopedia ; accessed on March 22, 2020 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Kosyzkyj, Pylyp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kosyzkyj, Pylyp Omeljanowytsch (full name); Козицький, Пилип Омелянович (Ukrainian); Козицкий, Филипп Емельянович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian composer and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Letychivka , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1960
Place of death Kiev , Ukrainian SSR