Pylyp Kozytskyi

Pylyp Omelyanovych Kozytskyi (; 23 October 1893 – 27 April 1960) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer, musicologist, professor, head of the department of history of music at the Kyiv Conservatory, and Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR. Between 1918 and 1924, he taught at the Lysenko Music and Drama Institute in Kyiv, the Kharkiv Music and Drama Institute from 1925 to 1935, and the Kyiv Conservatory. and president of the Choral Society of the Ukrainian SSR from 1959 up to his death in 1960. Kozytskiy died in Kyiv on 27 April 1960, and is buried in the Baikove Cemetery.

Musical works

Operas Unknown Soldier (1934) Jean Giradin (1937) For the Fatherland (1943) - For symphony orchestra

Cantatas In memory of the Bolsheviks (1951) - For choir a cappella Hello, Spring (1952) - For children's choir

Symphony orchestra Kozak Holota (1925) - Suite Partisan's Daughter (1938) - Poem Variations on a theme of the folk song Kupala (1925) - For String Quartet Variations on a theme of the Bashkirs (1943)

Piano Pages of Childhood (1913) 7 Preludes - For voice and piano, with words by P. Tychyna, and R. Tagore

Choir Spring Oratorio (1921) Eight Preludes Songs (1924) Brave Navy (1925) - Diptych, with words by Pavlo Tychyna Eight Ukrainian folk stories (1936) We are the country of Soviet children (1952) Green kudryavchik (1954)

Romances Song of Yakir - With words by Volodymyr Sosiura

Music for plays The King is amused by Victor Hugo (1927) - For the Berezil Theater Sava Chalyi by Nikolai Gogol (1927) Bridgehead by Miroslav Irchan (1932)

Music for movies Stozhary (1939) Kuban (1939)

Literary works History of Ukrainian Music (Kyiv, 1922) The mass singing. Allowance for amateur choir (Kharkiv, 1927) Bedrich Smetana (Kyiv, 1949) Scientific studies and articles on the works of Mykola Leontovych, Kyrylo Stetsenko, Borys Lyatoshynsky, Bedřich Smetana and others. (Kyiv, 1952) Taras Shevchenko and musical culture (Kyiv, 1959) Singing and Music Academy in Kyiv in 300 years of its existence (Kyiv, 1971) The stepfather of the heroine of the Great Patriotic War Guli Queen

Awards and honors Order of Lenin Order of the Red Banner of Labour (June 30, 1951) Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR (1943)