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37-488: The Mykola Lysenko Music Competition , named after Mykola Lysenko , was founded in 1962 by the Ukrainian composers Andriy Shtoharenko , Yevhen Stankovych , Myroslav Skoryk , Levko Kolodub, the singer Yelyzaveta Chavdar, pianists Yevhen Rzhanov and the composer's granddaughter Ariadna Lysenko. In 1992, on the 150th anniversary of Lysenko's birth, it acquired international status. Throughout its existence, it has become one of

74-524: A Polka ( c.  1851 ) and Nocturne (1859–1860) for piano, as well as a piece for string orchestra , Moldavskaya, Russian Pizzicato (1859–1860). In 1860, Lysenko attended the Gymnasium of Kharkiv , and studied natural sciences at the city's university , and later at the Kyiv University . At the latter he continued his music studies with Dmitriyev, Wilczyk and Wolner, and graduated in 1865 with

111-591: A chamber piece for flute, violin and piano, the Fantasy on Ukrainian Themes. Lysenko went to Saint Petersburg from 1874 to 1876 to study orchestration with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov . Besides Rimsky-Korsakov, he met with other members of The Five , particularly Modest Mussorgsky , who was working on an opera set in Ukraine, The Fair at Sorochyntsi . During this short stay in Saint Petersburg Lysenko conducted

148-439: A choir and wrote many piano compositions, writing more than 10 works in a variety of genres. Lysenko led another choir when he returned to Kyiv 1876. Many of the choristers under Lysenko's instruction would become composers, including Levko Revutsky , Porfyrii Demutsky, Kyrylo Stetsenko and his son Ostap Lysenko  [ uk ] . Other acitives included organizing concerts for Veresai and giving music lessons, often at

185-667: A degree in the natural sciences. Lysenko then completed two years of civil service in Tarashcha county as a peace mediator  [ uk ; ru ] for disputes involving former serfs and their land-ownership claims. He pursued further music studies at the Leipzig Conservatory , Germany, from 1867 to 1869, where his primary teachers included Carl Reinecke for piano as well as Ernst Richter for composition and theory. From his youth, Lysenko had developed an intense enthusiasm for Ukrainian music and culture, particularly from

222-530: A melancholy waltz and a heroic duma, an extensive romantic ballad and a tone poem". Lysenko set music to many poets, particularly the Ukrainian modernists , which he found the best way to express his patriotic and political beliefs. These included Ivan Franko , Yevhen Hrebinka , Oleksandr Oles , Stepan Rudanskyi  [ uk ] , Shchegolev, Staryts′ky and Lesya Ukrainka , but also others such as Heinrich Heine , Adam Mickiewicz and Semyon Nadson . He

259-674: A pianist, and his son Ostap also taught music in Kyiv. A composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist, Lysenko was the central figure of Ukrainian music in his time. He was a prolific composer, writing many piano pieces, over a hundred art songs, operas, as well as orchestral, chamber and choral music. Lysenko wrote a number of operatic works, including the classical Ukrainian opera Natalka Poltavka , Utoplena ( The Drowned Maiden , after Gogol 's May Night ) and Taras Bulba , Nocturne , and two operas for children— Koza-dereza and Mr. Kotsky . Of his Ukrainian colleagues, Lysenko

296-564: A spiritual hymn for the country. Lysenko's larger works for piano include the Ukrainian Suite in Form of Ancient Dances , two rhapsodies (the second, Dumka-shumka is one of his most-known works), Heroic scherzo and Sonata in A minor. He also wrote dozens of smaller works such as nocturnes, polonaises, songs without words, and program pieces. Some of his piano works show the influence of Frédéric Chopin 's style. Lysenko's chamber music includes

333-438: A string quartet, a trio for two violins and viola, and a number of works for violin and piano. Lysenko made the first musical-ethnographic studies of the blind kobzar Ostap Veresai which he published in 1873 and 1874; they are still exemplary. Lysenko continued to research and transcribe the repertoire of other kobzars from other regions such as Opanas Slastion from Poltava and Pavlo Bratytsia from Chernihiv . He also made

370-634: A thorough study of other Ukrainian folk instruments such as the torban . His collection of essays about Ukrainian folk instruments makes him the founder of Ukrainian organology and one of the first organologists in the Russian Empire. Source: The influence of his music and nationalistic style was immense for subsequent Ukrainian composers . Composers such as Stanyslav Lyudkevych , Alexander Koshetz , Kyrylo Stetsenko , Yakiv Stepovy , and mostly importantly, Mykola Leontovych , have acknowledged his influence. Despite his high renown in Ukraine, Lysenko

407-1278: Is not just another music tournament with joyful victories and upset losses intermingled, but it is above all a forum of masters of various generations, exchange of experience and masterclass of skillful performance. The Mykola Lysenko Music Competition is a visiting-card of the Ukrainian music culture and is among the well-known leading competitions in Eastern Europe such as The Tchaikovsky Competition in Russia, Chopin Competition in Poland and several others. JURY MEMBERS Piano nomination (): Violin nomination (Kharkiv): Cello nomination (Kyiv): Natalia Khoma (Ukraine), Singing nomination (Odesa): COMPETITION RESULTS: Piano nomination (): A.Kutasevych (Ukraine), Violin nomination (Kharkiv): I prize – Oleksandr Semchuk, (Ukraine); Cello nomination (Kyiv): I prize – A. Nuzha (Ukraine); II prize – І. Kucher (Ukraine); Singing nomination (Odesa): In female group: I prize and Grand Prix – Tetiana Anisimova (Ukraine); Grand Prix – Pryimak Petro (Ukraine), III prize – Pryimak Pavlo (Ukraine); Special Prizes "To

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444-610: Is not particularly well known outside of the country. From 1950 to 1959, Lysenko's complete works were published in Kyiv in 22 volumes. A group of Ukrainian composers and musicians, including Yelizaveta Chavdar  [ uk ; ru ] , Ariadna Lysenko (the composer's granddaughter), Yevhen Rzhanov, Andriy Shtoharenko , Myroslav Skoryk and Yevhen Stankovych founded the Mykola Lysenko International Music Competition in 1962 in honor of Lysenko. Lysenko's home in Kyiv which he stay from 1894 to 1912

481-651: The Kyiv Institute for Daughters of the Nobility  [ ru ; uk ] . By the late 1870s, Lysenko was recognized as a leading figure in Ukrainian music. As a Ukrainian composer living in a Russian-controlled state he endured continued difficulties from the government. His relationship with the RMS gradually deteriorated, until he was completely ignored. Unlike his Russian colleagues, Lysenko received no state support, and sometimes active resistance from Russian officials. He

518-406: The novella of the same name by Nikolai Gogol , in which the grandeur, complexity and Ukrainian-language libretto prevented its staging during Lysenko's lifetime. To promote and cultivate Ukrainian culture, Lysenko set works by many Ukrainian poets to music, especially Taras Shevchenko , to whom he was particularly devoted. His musical setting of a patriotic poem by Oleksandr Konysky , known as

555-819: The " Prayer for Ukraine ", has become Ukraine's spiritual anthem. Lysenko had a profound influence on later Ukrainian composers , including Stanyslav Lyudkevych , Alexander Koshetz , Kyrylo Stetsenko , Yakiv Stepovy , and most importantly, Mykola Leontovych . He is the namesake of the Mykola Lysenko International Music Competition and the Lysenko music school , which is now the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University . Despite his immense renown in Ukraine, Lysenko remains relatively unknown outside of his home country. Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko (transliterated in Russian as Nikolay Vitalyevich Lysenko),

592-520: The 17th-century. Among their descendants were the colonel Ivan Lysenko  [ uk ] ( d.  1699 ) who had commanded the Chernihiv Regiment and fought in both the Chyhyrin Campaigns and Azov campaigns ; Ivan Lysenko's son, Fedir Lysenko  [ uk ] ( d.  1751 ) had served as a yesaul and general judge  [ uk ] . Mykola Lysenko's father

629-524: The Eternal Memory of Kotliarevsky). He also arranged approximately 500 folk songs for voice and piano, choir and piano, or choir a cappella. He wrote two works for anniversaries of Shevchenko's death, a Funeral March (1888) on words by Ukrainka for the 27th, and a Cantata (1911) for the 50th. His 1885 choral setting of a patriotic poem by Oleksandr Konysky , originally intended for a children's choir, became known internationally as " Prayer for Ukraine ",

666-887: The Mykola Lysenko International Music Competition. The competition jury panel is composed of distinguished musicians from various countries, many of whom being Ukrainian. The competition repertoire of each participant must include works of classic music as well as works by Lysenko and other Ukrainian composers. Thanks to the Lysenko Competition a powerful start in career was given to a number of Ukrainian artists, known worldwide: pianists – Liudmyla Martsevych, Etella Tchupryk, Milana Tcherniavska; violinists Oleksandr Semchuk , Olha Rivniak, and Dima Tkachenko ; cellists Hanna Nuzha, Ivan Kucher; singers Lidia Zabiliasta, Andrii Shkurhan, Volodymyr Hryshko, Mykola Shopsha and many others. The Lysenko Competition

703-415: The Ukrainian language in print was one of the obstacles for Lysenko; he had to publish some of his scores abroad, while performances of his music had to be authorized by the imperial censor. For his opera libretti Lysenko insisted on using only Ukrainian. He was so intent on promoting and elevating the Ukrainian culture that he didn't allow his opera Taras Bulba to be translated – he maintained that it

740-3132: The best accompanist" – Galyna Radchenko. JURY MEMBERS Piano nomination: Jury Chairman – Mykhailo Stepanenko (Ukraine), Ariadna Lysenko (Ukraine), Ethella Chupryk (Ukraine), Yuriy Ayrapetian (Russia), Jaroslaw Drzewiecki (Poland), Igor Koch (Austria), Luba Zuk (Canada). Violin nomination: Simon Camartin (Switzerland), Dyusen Kaseinov (Kazakhstan), Michael Striharz (Germany), Igor Frolov (Russia). Cello nomination: Medeia Abramian (Armenia), Wang Xiang (China), Maris Villerush (Latvia), Jerzy Wujtewicz (Poland), Yulia Panteliat (Austria), Serhiy Usanov (Russia). Singing nomination: Lyudmyla Kolos (Belarus), Vasile Martinoiu (Romania), Mati Palm (Estonia) and Branislav Jatych (Yugoslavia). COMPETITION RESULTS: Piano nomination: І prize – Inna Soldatenko (Ukraine); ІІ prize – Alina Chalikova. Violin nomination: І prize – Dmytro Tkachenko (Ukraine); ІІ prize – Ostap Shutko (Ukraine). Cello nomination: І prize – not given; ІІ prize (ex-aequo) – Diana Havata / Kateryna Danylenko. Singing nomination: In female group: Grand Prix – Liudmyla Monastyrska ; І prize – Liudmyla Povstenko; ІІ prize – Zhanna Nimenska. In male group: І prize – Stanislav Tryfonov; ІІ prize – Mykhailo Kirishev. JURY MEMBERS Piano nomination: Violin nomination: Cello nomination: J.Laniuk (Ukraina), Singing nomination: COMPETITION RESULTS: Piano nomination: I prize – U Tsun (China); Violin nomination: I prize – Anastasia Pylatiuk (Ukraine); II prize – Kyrylo Sharapov (Ukraine); III prize – Lidiya Futorska (Ukraine). Cello nomination: I prize – Hanna Pyrozhkova (Ukraine); Singing nomination: In female group: I prize – (Oksana Dyka); In male group: III prize – Kovnir Sergiy (Ukraine) JURY MEMBERS Piano nomination: Jury Chairman – Myroslav Skoryk (Ukraine); Yuri Hildiuk (Belarus); Bronislava Kavallia (Poland); Maryna Kryh (Ukraine); Rada Lysenko (Ukraine); Olena Rikhter (Russia); Vitaly Samoshko (Belgium); Volodymyr Vynnytsky (USA); Liuba Zhuk (Canada). Violin nomination: Jury Chairman – Bogodar Kotorovych (Ukraine); Anatoliy Bazhenov (Ukraine); Rodney Friend (UK); Dyusen Kaseinov (Kazakhstan); Bohdan Kaskiv (Ukraine); David Takeno (Japan); Dima Tkachenko (Ukraine/UK); Valery Vorona (Russia); Krzysztof Wegrzyn (Germany/Poland). Cello nomination: Jury Chairman – Yuri Laniuk (Ukraine); Andrzej Bauer (Poland); Marcel Bergman (Israel); Gert von Bulow (Germany); Simon Camartin (Switzerland); Harytyna Kolesa (Ukraine); Natalia Khoma (USA); Ivan Kucher (Ukraine); Florian Leonhard (UK). Singing nomination: Jury Chairwoman – Yevdokia Kolesnyk (Ukraine); Charlotte Lehmann (Germany); Sergej Martinov (Latvia); Mihail Munteanu (Moldova); Petro Onchul (Ukraine); Galyna Polyvanova (Ukraine); Natalia Rudneva (Belarus); Petro Skusnichenko (Russia); Enrico Stinchelli (Italy). COMPETITION RESULTS: Piano nomination: І prize – Dmytro Onyschenko (Ukraine); ІІ prize – Katerynа Kulykova (Ukraine); ІІІ prize – Alexei Chernov (Russia); IV prize – Andriy Dragan (Ukraine); V prize – Tetiana Shafran (Ukraine); Special Prize "For

777-694: The best performance of a piece by Mykola Lysenko" – Alexei Shestiperov (Russia); Special Prizes "To the best accompanist" – Olga Cherniak and Jozsef Erminy. Singing nomination: In female group: І prize – Anna Viktorova (Russia); ІІ prize – Valentyna Andreeva (Ukraine) and Katerina Vasilenko (Russia); ІІІ prize – Melanie Horner (Germany), Yulia Lytvynova (Ukraine) and Natalia Pavlenko (Ukraine); IV prize – Zoya Ivaniuk (Ukraine) and Hu Jing (China); V prize – Elena Demirjian (Moldova). In male group: І prize – Yuri Horyn (Ukraine); ІІ prize – Yevhen Orlov (Ukraine); ІІІ prize – Dmytro Kuzmin (Ukraine); IV prize – Igor Turkan (Moldova); V prize – Zhu Lu (China); Special Prize "For

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814-652: The best performance of a piece by Mykola Lysenko" – Katerynа Kulykova (Ukraine). Violin nomination: І prize – Solenne Paidassi (France); ІІ prize – Nazariy Pylatiuk (Ukraine); ІІІ prize – Maksym Hrinchenko (Ukraine) and Taras Yaropud (Ukraine); Special Prize "For the best performance of a piece by Mykola Lysenko" – Solenne Paidassi (France); Special Prizes "To the best accompanist" – Kateryna Lebedeva and Svitlana Smykovska. Cello nomination: І prize – Ruodi Li (China); ІІ prize – Bartosz Koziak (Poland); ІІІ prize – Artem Shmahaylo (Ukraine); IV prize -Maksym Dedikov (Ukraine); V prize – Alexei Shestiperov (Russia); Special Prize "For

851-402: The best performance of a piece by Mykola Lysenko" – Oleksandr Kireev (Ukraine) and Olga Fomichova (Ukraine); Special Prizes "To the best accompanist" – Marina Belousova (Russia), Viktoria Mramornova (Ukraine), Margaryta Serhienko (Ukraine) and Olga Filatova (Ukraine) Mykola Lysenko Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko ( Ukrainian : Микола Віталійович Лисенко ; 22 March 1842 – 6 November 1912)

888-581: The choral work Zapovit ('The Testament'). Two other factors were important to his nationalistic fervor: close relationships with his cousin, Mykhailo Starytsky , the historian Volodymyr Antonovych and the scholar Tadei Rylsky; and also his association with the hromada in Kyiv, the 'Old Society'  [ uk ] . Lysenko concluded that music was the best way he could express his patriotism, and aimed to create an independent school of Ukrainian music, rather than duplicate existing styles of Western classical music . In 1869 Lysenko returned to Kyiv, and in

925-544: The former are the frequent use of ornamentation , unusual meters , and folk melody-like affects, while from classical music there is a Romantic use of intense chromaticism and rapid shifts between tonal centers , typical of 20th-century classical music . His songs cover a wide variety of topics, described by the musicologist Dagmara Turchyn as an "astoundingly wide [range]—passionate dramatic monologues and meditative elegies, profound philosophical statements and colourful folk scenes, lyrical serenades and ecstatic love songs,

962-574: The influence of his grandparents, and his enjoyment of peasant songs. In the early 1860s he began to collect and publish Ukrainian folk songs , often with the minstrel Ostap Veresai 's help. He would later publish seven volumes of arrangements and transcriptions of these between 1868 and 1911. The philosophers Vissarion Belinsky , Nikolay Chernyshevsky and Alexander Herzen influenced him. His early works included musical settings of Ukrainian poets, particularly Taras Shevchenko , an important figure of early Ukrainian literature, whose text he set in

999-521: The most prestigious music competitions in Ukraine. Until 1992, it was called the Ukrainian Young Artists Competition. It has been held in Ukrainian various cities, such as Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Odesa, and Zaporizhzhia. Winners’ Concert was held at Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine . One of the notable musicians who participated in it was pianist Sophia Agranovich , who won in 1966 and 1970. Since 1992 it has been called

1036-552: The vein of contemporaries such as Grieg in Norway, The Five in Russia as well as Smetana and Dvořák in what is now the Czech Republic. By studying and drawing from Ukrainian folk music , promoting the use of the Ukrainian language , and separating himself from Russian culture, his compositions form what many consider the quintessential essence of Ukrainian music. This is demonstrated best in his epic opera Taras Bulba from

1073-637: The words of music historian Richard Taruskin , "he returned home a committed musical nationalist". On his return to Kyiv he continued to arrange and study Ukrainian folk melodies. He split his time between numerous activities: giving piano lessons, working at the Russian Musical Society (RMS) chapter in Kyiv, and composing. During this period Lysenko wrote his first opera Chernomortsy (the 'Black Sea Sailors') between 1872 and 1873. Also during these years he wrote an orchestral fantasia , entitled Ukraïns′kyy kazak-shumka (Ukrainian Cossack Song) and

1110-606: Was Vitaliy Romanovych Lysenko  [ uk ] , the great grandson of Fedir and a colonel himself. The composer had two younger siblings, a sister, Sofiya Vitaliivna Staryts'ka  [ uk ] and a brother, Andriy Vitaliyovych Lysenko  [ uk ] . Lysenko studied music at an early age, first receiving piano instruction from his mother. At the age of nine, he was brought to Kyiv to continue musical study in boarding schools . He studied piano under Alois Panocini  [ uk ] and music theory . His early compositions from this time survive, including

1147-408: Was a Ukrainian composer , pianist , conductor and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic period . In his time he was the central figure of Ukrainian music , with an oeuvre that includes operas, art songs , choral works, orchestral and chamber pieces, and a wide variety of solo piano music. He is often credited with founding a national music tradition during the Ukrainian national revival , in

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1184-687: Was born in Hrynky , near Kremenchugsky Uyezd of the Poltava Governorate (now Kremenchuk , Poltava Oblast , Ukraine) on 22 March 1842. His hometown was a small village near the Dnieper river, and between the major cities of Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk . At the time, Ukraine was split between the Russian Empire and Austro-Hungarian Empire . The Lysenko family was wealthy and educated; they were an old aristocratic family stemming back to Cossacks of

1221-699: Was converted into the Mykola Lysenko House-Museum in 1987, one the city's many museums for important cultural figures. Rada Lysenko She graduated from the Kiev Conservatory after the war where Abram Lufer was her teacher. During the Second World War she was relocated to Germany from where she immigrated to Lviv . Later on, she was granted a residence in Moscow where she performed her popular concert called Vitry buini . She served on

1258-529: Was particularly devoted to Taras Shevchenko, and set 82 texts from the poet's Kobzar collection. In Ukraine, comparisons are often drawn between Lysenko and Shevchenko, both of whom form what many Ukrainians consider the essence of their culture and identity. Aside from art songs, Lysenko's vocal work includes three cantatas for choir and orchestra, all to Taras Shevchenko 's texts: Raduisia nyvo nepolytaia (Rejoice, Unwatered Field), Biut’ porohy (The Rapids Roar), Na vichnu pamiat’ Kotliarevs’komu (To

1295-505: Was repeatedly monitored by the government and often attacked in the local press, because his activities in support of Ukrainian culture made him suspicious to the political officials – in particular his frequent meetings with other Ukrainian patriots, and later, his support of the 1905 revolution and heading of the Ukrainian Club . He was jailed for his stance on the revolution in 1907. The Ems Ukaz decree of 1876 that banned use of

1332-416: Was the composer most committed to art songs ( Ukrainian : lirychni pisni ). His works in this genre number 133, and "relate a wonderfully descriptive and passionate story of 19th- and early 20th-century European life". These songs are usually through-composed and attentive to the details of the text. His approach blends characteristics from traditional Ukrainian music and Western classical music. From

1369-497: Was too ambitious to be staged in Ukrainian opera houses. Tchaikovsky was impressed by the opera and wanted to stage the work in Moscow . Lysenko's insistence on it being performed in Ukrainian, not Russian, prevented the performance from taking place in Moscow. In his later years, Lysenko raised funds to open a Ukrainian School of Music, known as the Lysenko music school . Lysenko's daughter Mariana followed in her father's footsteps as

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