Vitaliy Kyreiko (23 December 1926 - 19 October 2016) was a
Ukrainian
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composer
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Etymology and Defi ...
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He graduated from the
Kyiv Conservatory with a degree in composition from
L. Revutsky (1944-1949), where he also completed his postgraduate studies (1952). His other accomplishments include: 1949-88 -
Lecturer
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, Associate Professor (1961), Professor (1978) of the
Kyiv Conservatory, and Candidate of Art History (1953).
[Kyreiko, Vitaliy. Ukrainian music encyclopedia. Т. 2: – К Kyiv 2008. P. 398-399.]
Selected works
Operas:
*''
The Forest Song
The Forest Song is a poetic play in three acts by Lesya Ukrainka. The play was written in 1911 in the city of Kutaisi, and was first staged on November 22, 1918 at the Kyiv Drama Theater. The work is one of the first prototypes of fantasy in Uk ...
'', an adaptation of the play by
Lesia 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 ...
(1957),
*''On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs'', an adaptation of the novelette by
Olha Kobylianska
Olha Yulianivna Kobylianska ( uk, Ольга Юліанівна Кобилянська; 27 November 1863 Gura Humorului, Bukovina, Austro-Hungary - 21 March 1942 Cernăuți, Cernăuți County, Romania) was a Ukrainian modernist writer and fe ...
(1966),
*''Marko in Hell'' (1966)
*''The Boyar Woman'' (2003)
Ballets:
*''Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors'', an adaptation of the novella by
Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1960),
*''The Witch'' (1967),
*''The Orgy'' (1977), based on the play by Lesia Ukrainka
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References
External links
Kyreiko, Vitaliy Internet encyclopedia of Ukraine
Kyreiko, Vitaliy encyclopedia of Ukrainian history
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History
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Ukrainian composers
1926 births
2016 deaths
People from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Kyiv Conservatory alumni
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