Klyment Vasilyovich Kvitka ( uk, Климент Васильович Квітка; February 4, 1880 – September 19, 1953) was a Ukrainian and Soviet musicologist and ethnographer, and the husband of poet

Lesya Ukrainka Lesya Ukrainka ( uk, Леся Українка ; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, uk, Лариса Петрівна Косач; – ) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active ...

. The Kvitka family played an important role in the initiative of the

preservation of kobzar music The idea of the preservation of kobzar music by means of sound recording originated in 1901–02. Kobzars were itinerant Ukrainian folk musicians who sung ''dumas'' and folk songs to their own accompaniment of kobza, bandura or lira. The 12th Ar ...

by means of sound recording using the recently invented

phonograph A phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910) or since the 1940s called a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogu ...

.Довгалюк Ірина. Причинки до історії проекту фонографування дум // Етномузика: збірка статей та матеріалів / упорядники Ірина Довгалюк, Юрій Рибак. – Львів, 2008. – Ч.5. – С.9-26. – (Наукові збірки Львівської національної музичної академії ім.М.Лисенка. – Вип.22)

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1880 births 1953 deaths 20th-century musicologists 20th-century Ukrainian musicians People from Romensky Uyezd Moscow Conservatory academic personnel Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Ukrainian ethnographers Ukrainian male writers Ukrainian musicologists {{ukraine-bio-stub Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery