Gregory Alchevsky (russian: Григо́рий Алексе́евич Алче́вский; 1866 in

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– 1920 in

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) was a Ukrainian and Russian composer. Gregory was the son of a mining engineer, industrialist and banker Aleksey Alchevsky, and teacher

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. Gregory also had two sіblings named Ivan and Khrystina.

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became a renowned opera singer and Khrystina Alchevskaya was a respected poet. Gregory Alchevsky himself, worked as a teacher of voice and piano, composer and singer. He was a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory of Music. His works include: several textbooks for vocalists, a

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called "

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", arrangements of Russian and Ukrainian

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s, and a series of solo works to the words of

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Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik Tatiana Lvovna Shchepkina-Kupernik (russian: Татья́на Льво́вна Ще́пкина-Купе́рник, in Moscow, Russian Empire – July 27, 1952 in Moscow, USSR) was a Russian and Soviet writer, dramatist, poet and translator. Bio ...

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Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko ( uk, Тарас Григорович Шевченко , pronounced without the middle name; – ), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (a kobzar is a bard in Ukrainian culture), was a Ukraine, Ukrainian p ...

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, ...

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References

*Dytyniak Maria Ukrainian Composers – A Bio-bibliographic Guide – Research report No. 14, 1896, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Canada.

Sources

Hryhorii Alchevsky

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