Stepan Pasiuha

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| name = Stepan Pasiuha

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| native_name = {{nobold|Степан Пасюга}}

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| caption = Pasiuha (left) in 1912

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1862|12|11|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Velyka Pysarivka, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine)

| death_date = {{death year and age|1933|1862}}

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Kobzar
Bandurist}}

| genre = Folk

| instrument = Bandura

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Stepan Artemovych Pasiuha{{efn|name=spelling|{{langx|uk|Степан Артемович Пасюга|{{transliteration|uk|ukrainian|Stepan Artemovych Pasiuha}}}}}} (11 December 1862{{snd}}1933){{efn|Zheplynsky states that he was born on 29 November 1862, which is the Julian date. The Gregorian calendar is ten days ahead of the Julian Calendar}}[http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CP%5CA%5CPasiuhaStepan.htm Pasiuha, Stepan] Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Accessed 30 May 2022 was a Ukrainian kobzar.

Biography

Stepan Pasiuha was born in the town Velyka Pysarivka, Bohodukhiv County, in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). He learned to play the bandura from {{ill|Dmytro Trochenko|uk|Троченко Дмитро Петрович}}. He had seven dumy (sung epic poems) in his repertoire:

1. Marusia Bohuslavka
2. {{ill|The Widow and Her Three Sons|uk|Удова і три сини (дума)}}
3. The Sister and Brother
4. Oleksiy Popovych
5. Captives lament
6. {{ill|Ivan Konovchenko, the Widow's Son|uk|Дума про Івася Коновченка}}
7. {{ill|The Escape of the Three Brothers from Oziv|uk|Втеча трьох братів з Азова}}

The first three dumy were recorded on a phonograph by Opanas Slastion and sent to Filaret Kolessa in Lviv. Filaret Kolessa wrote that : "In his recitations, sung with a nice baritone, we hear the importance of the recitative above the melody. The singing and playing of Stepan Pasiuha makes a nice artistic impression."

{{ill|Yehor Movchan|uk|Мовчан Єгор Хомич}} was a student of Pasiuha, and highly praised him as a teacher of singing and playing, and also as a kobzar who demonstrated great artistry in his performance of dumy. He often spoke: "there probably was never such a kobzar like Pasiuha and in the future there never will be."

In 1915, Pasiuha was arrested and spent time incarcerated.

From graphic sources his bandura had:

Portrait 1 – 4 basses and 14 treble strings (16 pegs)
Portrait 2 – 6 basses and 14 treble strings

Students

{{ill|Hryhory Kozhushko|uk|Кожушко Григорій Семенович}}
{{ill|Yehor Movchan|uk|Мовчан Єгор Хомич}}
Heorhy Tkachenko

Notes

Sources

Mishalow, V. and M.: Ukrains'ki kobzari-bandurysty, Sydney, Australia, 1986

References

Category:20th-century Ukrainian musicians

Category:Musicians from the Russian Empire