About Vasyl Pashchenko
Lived 1822 – 1891 (aged 68–69). Vasyl Pashchenko was a Russian composer and pianist.
Vasyl Pashchenko (; ; 182224 January (5 February) 1891) was a Ukrainian composer. He born in the village of , Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire. He lived in Odesa. He composed works for piano (including the polonaises "On the Death of T. Shevchenko" and "Thought about Ukraine", a transcription of the "I'm Going Across the Neman", a Bulgarian march, a waltz, a mazurka, and a polka), and romances that used Ukrainian folk music.
Pashchenko died on 5 February 1891 in a Ukrainian village in the Kiev Governorate. He was buried at the which was destroyed in 1937 when the authorities opened Ilyich Park. Some of his works are to be found in volume 5 of Ukrainian Piano Music (Kyiv, 1974).
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Who was Vasyl Pashchenko?
Ukrainian composer
When was Vasyl Pashchenko born?
Vasyl Pashchenko was born in 1822.
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Vasyl Pashchenko died in 1891 in Kanev Uyezd.
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Vasyl Pashchenko was a composer and pianist.
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Vasyl Pashchenko was Russian.
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