Stefanija Turkevich
Stefanija Iwaniwna Turkewytsch-Lukijanowytsch ( Ukrainian Стефанія Іванівна Туркевич-Лукіянович ; born April 25, 1898 in Lemberg , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; † April 8, 1977 in Cambridge , Great Britain ) was a Ukrainian composer and musicologist, Ukrainian composer.
Life
She received her first music lessons from her mother. After the First World War , she studied classical composition with Wassyl Barwinskyj ( Василь Олександрович Барвінський ; 1888–1963) and piano with Vilém Kurz und Je. Lyalevich ( Є. Лялевич ) at the Higher Music Institute in Lviv named after Mykola Lyssenko . She then moved to Austria and studied with Guido Adler at the University of Vienna and Joseph Marx at the Music Academy. In 1925 she traveled to Berlin with her first husband Robert Lisovsky , where she studied with Franz Schreker and Arnold Schönberg . From Berlin she went to Prague, where she studied with Zdenek Nejedly at the Charles University , with Otakar Sin at the Prague Conservatory and with Vítězslav Novák at the Music Academy. In 1934 she received her doctorate in musicology from the Ukrainian Free University in Prague.
Between 1935 and 1939 she taught harmony and piano at the Higher Music Institute in Lviv, named after Mykola Lyssenko, and from 1940 to 1944 she taught there at the Conservatory, was piano accompanist at the Lviv Opera and pianist for the radio.
While fleeing the Red Army , she emigrated to Great Britain in 1946 with her second husband Narcyz Lukijanowytsch ( Нарциз Денисович Лукіянович ; 1907–1985) to Great Britain and worked there on her compositions. She created ballet music and an opera, composed four symphonies, liturgical music, chamber music as well as pieces for piano and art songs.
Stefanija was the mother of the painter Soja Lissowska-Nyschankiwska ( Зоя Робертівна Лісовська-Нижанківська ; * 1927)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Entry on Turkevych-Lukiianovych, Stefaniia in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on October 20, 2018 (English)
- ↑ a b c biography Stefanija Turkewytsch on ukrainianartsong ; accessed on October 20, 2018 (English)
- ↑ a b c Entry on Stefanija Turkewytsch-Lukijanowytsch in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on October 20, 2018 (Ukrainian)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Turkevych, Stefanija |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Turkevich-Lukijanowytsch, Stefanija Iwaniwna (full name); Туркевич-Лукіянович, Стефанія Іванівна (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian composer, pianist and musicologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lviv , Galicia , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 1977 |
| Place of death | Cambridge , UK |