Mykhailo Verykivsky ( 14 June 1962) was a Ukrainian composer, conductor and teacher. He was an

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of Ukraine in 1944.

Biography

In early years Mykhailo Verykivsky grows in an atmosphere of love and respect for Ukrainian native folk songs, which influenced his musical work. After graduating from elementary school, Verykivsky entered the city school and was admitted to the bishop's choir. He continued his musical education at the Kremenets Commercial School (1912-1914), where he conducted the choir and orchestra of folk instruments, played in the school symphony orchestra, studied cello, piano and made his first attempts at composition - he created piano preludes and romances.Davydova 2014, 67 In 1914 Verykivsky began to study at Kyiv Conservatory as double bass player. In 1915 with the beginning of World War І Verykivsky was determined to enter the military college where he studies until 1918. In 1918 he rejoin Kyiv Conservatory to the composition class of Boleslav Yavorsky and graduated in 1923.Encyclopedia of modern Ukraine From 1922 he works as a teacher at the Mykola Lysenko Institute of Music and Drama and, later, in Kyiv Conservatory (until 1960, with a break in 1941–1944; from 1946 he was its professor). 1920 - leader of the Ukrainian National Chorus; 1921–1928 - co-founder, board member and chairman of the Mykola Leontovych Society; 1928–1930 - Chairman of the Presidium and head of the scientific and creative department of the All-Ukrainian Society of Revolutionary Musicians. 1926–1928 - conductor of the Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theater, 1928–1935 - . 1940 - head of the , 1950-1958 - researcher at the Institute of Art History, Folklore and Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Legacy

His works include the ballet ''Pan Kaniovsky'';Pan Kaniovsky, in reference to a Polish magnate Mikołaj Potocki, is an antihero from the Ukrainian folk ballad 5 operas (including Taras Shevchenko-based operas ''The Sotnyk'' Sotnyk was a Ukrainian cossacks' military rank and ''The Servant Girl''); an oratorio on

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; five

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s; a concerto for piano and orchestra (1950); a number of orchestral works; a large body of piano music; chamber and church music; original choral works and arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs for chorus; about 70 original solo art songs and settings of Ukrainian folk songs for voice and piano; children's songs; and music for radio and films.Encyclopedia of Ukraine Сhoral genre is a most important in Verikivsky's legacy. His works include five types of works - large forms, choral miniatures, folk songs choral arrangements, music for church and music for children.Davydova 2014, 69 These compositions are highly influenced by

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Selected works

;Operas: *''Heaven works'' ("''Діла небесні''", 1931) *''The Sotnyk'' ("''Сотник''", 1939) *''The Servant Girl'' ("''Наймичка»''", 1943) * ''Runaways'' ("''Втікачі''", 1948) *''Glory'' ("''Слава''", 1961) ;Other stage works: *Musical comedy ''Viy'' («''Вій''», 1936, revised in 1945)"Viy": based on Nikolay Gogol's horror story " Viy" *Ballet ''Pan Kaniovsky'' («''Пан Каньовський''», 1930) ;Choral and symphonic works: *Оratorio ''A duma about

the Warrior Girl'' («''Дума про дівку-бранку Марусю Богуславку''», 1923) *Simphonic suite ''Freckles'' («''Веснянки»'', 1924) *Cantata ''The wrath of the Slavs'' («''Гнів слов'ян''», 1941) *Symphonic poem ''Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny'' («Петро Конашевич-Сагайдачний», 1944).About Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny ;Other: *over 60 chamber and vocal works *over 40 (regular) songs and about 100 songs for children *about 100 arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs for various artists

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