Anatoly Kos-Anatolsky
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Anatoliy Yosypovych Kos-Anatolsky (; 1 December 1909 – 30 November 1983) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer.
People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR People's Artist of Ukraine is an honorary and the highest title awarding to outstanding performing artists whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development of the performing arts (theatre, music, dance, circus, cinema, etc.). Estab ...
(1969) and winner of
Shevchenko National Prize Shevchenko National Prize ( uk, Націона́льна пре́мія Украї́ни і́мені Тараса́ Шевче́нка; also ''Shevchenko Award'') is the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and arts awarded since ...
(1980). Deputy of
Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union The Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( rus, Верховный Совет Союза Советских Социалистических Республик, r=Verkhovnyy Sovet Soyuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respubl ...
in 1970–1978 years.Tereshchenko, p.558


Biography

He was born on 1 December 1909 in
Kolomyia Kolomyia, formerly known as Kolomea ( ua, Коломия, Kolomyja, ; pl, Kołomyja; german: Kolomea; ro, Colomeea; yi, ), is a city located on the Prut River in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province), in western Ukraine. It serves as the admi ...
(now Ivano-Frankivsk region) in the family of the famous Galician doctor Yosyf Kos. While studying at Stanislav Gymnasium, he created a choir and began recording songs. In 1931 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of
Lviv University The University of Lviv ( uk, Львівський університет, Lvivskyi universytet; pl, Uniwersytet Lwowski; german: Universität Lemberg, briefly known as the ''Theresianum'' in the early 19th century), presently the Ivan Franko Na ...
, and in 1934 from the
Lviv Conservatory Lviv National Musical Academy named after Mykola Lysenko ( uk, Львівська національна музична академія імені Миколи Лисенка) or informally Lviv Conservatory is a state conservatory located in Lv ...
. In the 1930s, together with
Bohdan Vesolovsky Bohdan Vesolovsky ( 30 May 1915 – 17 December 1971) was a Ukrainian composer and songwriter.Ukrainian music encyclopedia Biography He was born in Vienna. After the First World War his family moved to Stryi, then occupied by Poland. He studie ...
, he was a member of "Jablonsky Jazz Chapel" ("Yabtso-Jazz"), later popular in the Lviv region. In 1934 – 1937 he taught at the Stryi branch of the Mykola Lysenko Higher Music Institute. From 1938 to 1939 he worked as a lawyer in the town of
Zaliztsi Zaliztsi ( uk, Залізці; pl, Załoźce; yi, זאַלעשיץ, Zaleshitz), previously known as Zalozhtsi ( uk, Заложці) until 1993, is an urban-type settlement in Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine. It hosts the admini ...
. The first independent creative work was the music for performances of the Lviv Music and Drama Theater (1941). During the
war War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular o ...
he was in Western Ukraine. From 1939 he worked as an accompanist of the Lviv House of Pioneers, a teacher at a music school. After the Second World War he became a member and since 1951 chairman of the Lviv regional branch of the Union of Soviet Composers of Ukraine, worked as concertmaster of the Lviv Drama Theater, and from 1952 – a teacher at the Lviv Conservatory (since 1973 – professor). Died on 30 November 1983 in Lviv. His grave could be found in
Lychakiv Cemetery Lychakiv Cemetery ( uk, Личаківський цвинтар, translit=Lychakivs’kyi tsvyntar; pl, Cmentarz Łyczakowski we Lwowie), officially State History and Culture Museum-Preserve "Lychakiv Cemetery" ( uk, Державний істор ...
(field No. 3) in Lviv. The tombstone was created by sculptor Emmanouil Galatsis.''Прийма Л.'' За деякими пам'ятними львівськими адресами // Наукові записки / Львівський історичний музей. — Вип. X. — Львів: Новий час, 2001. — С. 116. — .


Legacy

Anatoliy Kos-Anatolsky is the composer of an opera, three ballets, symphonic works, a number of concertos and popular choral works, solo songs, romances. A lot of his works are influenced by
Lemkos Lemkos ( rue, Лeмкы, translit= Lemkŷ; pl, Łemkowie; uk, Лемки, translit=Lemky) are an ethnic group inhabiting the Lemko Region ( rue, Лемковина, translit=Lemkovyna; uk, Лемківщина, translit=Lemkivshchyna) of Car ...
folklore.


Selected works

;opera * ''To Meet the Sun'' (''«Назустріч сонцю»'', 1957, 2nd edition – 1959) ;ballets * ''The Shawl of Dovbush'' (''«Хустка Довбуша»'', 1950), * ''The Jay's Wing'' «(''Сойчине крило»'', 1956), * ''Orysia'' (''«Орися»'', 1964, 2-а ред. 1967); ;operetta * ''Spring Storms'' (''«Весняні грози»'', 1960); ;cantatas * ''It Passed a Long Time Ago'' (1961) * ''The Immortal Testament'' (1963); ;oratorio * ''From the Niagara to the Dnieper'' (''«Від Ніагари до Дніпра»'', 1969); ;instrumental *two piano concertos *two violin concertos *harp concerto in F minor (1954) ;selected choirs *''Nova Verkhovyna'', *''On the Carpathian Mountains'' ;selected songs *''Oh you, girl, from the grain nut'' (''«Ой ти, дівчино, з горіха зерня»'', after
Ivan Franko Ivan Yakovych Franko (Ukrainian: Іван Якович Франко, pronounced ˈwɑn ˈjɑkowɪtʃ frɐnˈkɔ 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, interpreter, economist, ...
, 1956), * ''Oh, I'll go to the mountain'' (''«Ой піду я межи гори»'', own words, 1958), * ''Two streams from Black Mountains'' (''«Два потоки з Чорногори»'', after Petrenko) * ''White roses'' (''«Білі троянди»'') * ''Starry night'' (''«Зоряна ніч»'')


References


Further reading

*Volyns’kyi, I. (1965). Анатолій Йосипович Кос-Анатольський 'Anatolii Iosypovych Kos-Anatolskii'' Kyiv *Kolodii, Ia.; Poliek, V. (1974) Композитор Кос-Анатольський. 'Composer Anatolii Kos-Anatolskii'' Lviv *Tereshchenko А. (1986) Анатолій Кос-Анатольський 'Anatolii Kos-Anatolskii'' Кyiv.


External links


Kos-Anatolsky
Encyclopedia of Ukraine *Tereshchenko А. Анатолій Йосипович Кос-Анатольський 'Anatolii Iosypovych Kos-Anatolskii''I
Ukrainian music encyclopedia
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