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Mykola Lysenko

Mykola Lysenko was born in Poltava in 1842 and died in Kyiv in 1912.

He was an outstanding Ukrainian composer, a pianist, an ethnologist and a teacher.

He got his abilities of piano playing from his mother.

Lysenko was a student of Biology at Kharkiv University, studying music privately. He graduated in 1865 with a degree in natural sciences.

As a member of “Gromada” in Kyiv, he made a great contribution to the development of Ukrainian music.

On a scholarship, which he won from the Russian Music Society, he took further professional music studies at the Leipzig Conservatory and continued his studies of music in Leipzig.

Young Lysenko traveled to St. Petersburg where he took orchestration lessons from Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov in the mid- 1870s, but his Ukrainian national position and hate for Russian autocracy stopped his career.

After returning to Kyiv he opened his own school of music and drama and worked as a conductor and a teacher of music. He continued to create Ukrainian compositions. He also didn’t allow any translations of his works into Russian.

After 1905 Lysenko was the head of the Ukrainian Club, an association of Ukrainian national public figures in Kyiv. Lysenko insisted on using only the Ukrainian language for his opera.

His works include “Natalka- Poltavka”, “Taras Bulba” and operas for children. He was interested in Ukrainian musical folklore. His musical compositions were numerous and varied.

Lysenko was the founder of the national movement in music. He developed the Ukrainian musical culture.

In his later years, Lysenko raised funds to open a Ukrainian School of Music. Lysenko's daughter Mariana followed in her father's footsteps as a pianist, and his son Ostap also taught music in Kyiv.

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