Mykola Lysenko

Composer from Ukraine
1842, March 22nd in Hrynky, Ukraine - 1912, November 6th in Kyiv, Ukraine

Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist, regarded as the founder of the Ukrainian national school of composition. Born on 22 March 1842 in Hrynky, near Kremenchuk in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire, he received his first piano lessons from his mother and studied in Kyiv with Alois Panocini before graduating from Kyiv University. From 1867 to 1869 he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory, piano with Carl Reinecke and composition and theory with Ernst Richter, and from 1874 to 1876 he studied orchestration with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in Saint Petersburg. Settling in Kyiv, he devoted his life to Ukrainian music as a composer, choir director, pianist and teacher, and in 1904 founded a music and drama school that later became the Mykola Lysenko Institute of Music and Drama. Between 1868 and 1911 he published seven volumes of Ukrainian folk song arrangements, and his studies of the kobzar Ostap Veresai make him a pioneer of Ukrainian ethnomusicology and organology. His stage works include the operas Natalka Poltavka (1889), Taras Bulba (1891), Eneida (1910), Nocturne (1912) and Utoplena (The Drowned Maiden), as well as the children's operas Koza-dereza and Pan Kotsky. He also wrote more than a hundred art songs, many on texts by Taras Shevchenko, piano works such as the Ukrainian Suite in the Form of Ancient Dances and the rhapsody Dumka-shumka, and the choral Prayer for Ukraine (1885), now Ukraine's spiritual anthem. Among the musicians influenced by him were Kyrylo Stetsenko, Levko Revutsky, Mykola Leontovych and Stanislav Lyudkevych. He died in Kyiv on 6 November 1912. Source: Rondo DB

Usual Name Mykola Lysenko
Alternative Spellings Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko; Nikolai Lysenko; Nikolay Lyssenko; Микола Віталійович Лисенко
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Relationships is the pupil of Carl Reinecke
is the pupil of Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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