Mykhailo Haivoronsky
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 Mykhailo Haivoronsky Portrait
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| Birth name | Mykhailo Orest Haivoronsky |
| Born | September 15, 1892 Zalischyky, (now Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire) |
| Died | September 11, 1949 New York City, USA |
| Occupation(s) | Composer Violinist Conductor Teacher |
| Instrument(s) | violin, voice |
Mykhailo Orest Haivoronsky (Ukrainian: Михайло Гайворонський) (September 15, 1892 – September 11, 1949) was a Ukrainian composer, musician, conductor, teacher, violinist, and critic.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Ukraine
Mykhailo Haivoronsky was born on September 15 (O.S. September 1), 1892 in Zalischyky, in the Podilia region. After graduating from the Zalischyky seminary in 1912, he went to study in the Mykola Lysenko music institute in Lviv. At the beginning of World War I there was a nationalistic independence movement of Halych, which Haivoronsky took part. He was the organizer, conductor, and inspector of many orchestras. In the early 1920s Mykhailo took an active part in musical life. He taught at the Mykola Lysenko music institute in Lviv, was a teacher of music at a girl's gymnasium, and conducted the combined choirs: Boyan and Bandurist.
[edit] United States
In 1923, Mykhailo Haivoronsky moved to the United States, to New York. There he founded a Music Conservatory in 1924 and lectured at the Columbian University. Later, he organized a Ukrainian Instrumental Orchestra, which he directed until 1936. Mykhailo also organized and conducted a combined choir with singers from seven church choirs, with whom he had big concerts of his own works from 1932 to 1936. From the second half of the 1930s and on, the composer focused more on composing music, and supporting Ukrainian youth in America. Mykhailo Haivoronsky died on September 11, 1949 in New York and is buried there.
[edit] Works
Mykhailo Haivoronsky's most famous songs include over 30 striletski songs (some based on his own poems), the Dovbush Rhapsody, overtures, and dances and marches for wind orchestra.
[edit] America
In America, significant works composed by Haivoronsky include:
- the Symphonic Allegro
- the waltz Chervona Kalyna
- quartets for violin trio:
- Morozenko
- Christmas Suite
- Kolomyyka
- violin pieces:
- Eulogy
- Kolyskova
- Song without words
- Serenade
- Sonatina
[edit] Choir
The Haivoronsky also made the choir collections:
[edit] Theatre
His most famous theatre works:
- Viy
- Dovbush
- Hetman Doroshenko
[edit] External links
- Info on Pisni.org (Ukrainian)
- Library for Youth Article on Haivoronsky (Ukrainian)
- Example of Striletsky song Words and music by Haivoronsky (Ukrainian)
