Grigory Hansburg

Grigoriy Hansburg (born 25 September 1954) is a Ukrainian musicologist, educator, and music critic. Ph.D. He also performs as a pianist.

Biography Hansburg graduated from the Kharkiv National University of Arts named after Ivan Kotlyarevsky (historical-theoretical faculty) in 1978 under the class of L. M. Bulgakov. He also studied under G. O. Tyumeneva (music history, folklore), M. D. Tits (polyphony, history of music-theoretical systems, teaching methodology), O. V. Gusarova (analysis of musical works), Z. B. Yuferova (history of foreign music, musical bibliography), M. R. Cherkashina (contemporary music, pedagogical practice), and V. S. Bibik (instrumentation, score reading). He received his initial education as a pianist under L. G. Feigina, S. E. Grossman, and B. Yu. Yukht; he graduated from the Kharkiv Secondary Special Music School in 1973 under the class of I. M. Dubinin (music theory) and N. S. Tishko (music history). His dissertation was "The Song Theater of Robert Schumann" (scientific supervisor M. R. Cherkashina-Gubarenko), completed at the Department of History of Foreign Music at the National Music Academy of Ukraine (Kyiv). From 1992 to 2002, he was the scientific director of the International Music Festival "Kharkiv Assemblies". From 1993, he has been the director of the Institute of Musicology. From 2013, he is a member of the Specialized Academic Council (K 64.871.01) at Kharkiv National University of Arts named after I. P. Kotlyarevsky.

Achievements In 1976, he introduced the direction of musicology known as librettology (the science of the verbal component of musical works). In 1996, he developed and introduced the course "Musical Local Studies". He is the compiler of the curriculum on music criticism. In 1997, he presented a report at the anniversary Schubert conference in Vienna (the only representative from Ukraine). He is the author of the cultural concept "Resistance to Evil through Art", which became the motto of the International Music Festival "Kharkiv Assemblies" from 2004. He has more than 200 publications in scientific collections and periodicals. He is the author of books on the music of F. Schubert, R. Schumann, S. Rachmaninoff, and A. Dargomyzhsky. He is the editor-compiler of the yearbook "Kharkiv Assemblies" (1992–1995) and 28 scientific collections. He has also published archival documents about many composers and writers. He is the editor of original editions of scores by composers such as Handel, Schubert, Schumann, Dvořák (with equirhythmic translations of vocal texts), and new works by Borisov, M. Karminsky, V. Ivanov, and others. He is the author of musical works, mainly vocal and choral, including "Psalm No. 136" on poems by T. Shevchenko for mixed choir, and solo songs on poems by M. Tsvetaeva, O. Mandelstam, B. Pasternak, S. Cherkasenko, and L. Pervomaisky. He is the author and host of TV and radio programs. He was the chairman of the editorial board of the journal "Istoki" (1997–2002). He is a member of the editorial board of the scientific journal "Bulletin of the Saratov Conservatory. Issues of Art Studies" and the editorial board of the International Department of the scientific journal "IKONI/ICONI: Art. Culture. Education. Scientific Research". He is the author of articles in the Ukrainian Musical Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine.

Awards Laureate of the Municipal Prize named after I. I. Slatin (1997) ; laureate of the Grand Prize of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration and Kharkiv Regional Council in the field of culture and art (2014); winner of the journalistic competition "Chasopys" in the nomination "Cultural Space" (2020).

Family Father — trombonist I. G. Hansburg (1923–1995)

Articles More than 50 articles, including: "New Textbook on Harmony" (1981), "On the Question of Theatrical Choir" (1987), "On Librettology" (1990), "Three Approaches to Musical Heritage" (1997), "The Song Theater of Robert Schumann" (2005), "Rachmaninoff's Stylistic Crisis" (2005), "Fatum-Chord in Tchaikovsky's Music" (2007), "Theatricalization of Chamber Genres in R. Schumann's Vocal Music" (2010), "Spatial Effects in Music Sound" (2020).

Folklore collections

"Ukrainian Folk Songs with Notes" (2002–2009, several issues) "Russian Folk Songs with Notes" (2003–2007, several issues) Sheet music editions Works by W. Mozart, F. Schubert, F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, M. Karminsky, V. Ivanov, G. Hansburg (songs, choral works), G. Purcell, G. Rossini, J. S. Bach, G. Mahler, and others.