Vasyl Barvinsky
{{short description|Ukrainian composer}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Vasyl Barvinsky
| image = Vasyl Barvinsky.jpg
| image size = 250 px
| alt =
| caption = Barvinsky in 1920
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 20 February 1888
| birth_place = Tarnopol, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary
| death_date = 9 June 1963
| death_place = Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
| occupation = {{plainlist|
- {{Nowrap begin}} Pianist, Composer{{Nowrap end}},
- Director of the Lysenko Institute in Lviv,
- Teacher}}
| years_active = 1910s–1960s
| education = Lemberg Conservatory
}}
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Vasyl Oleksandrovych Barvinsky ({{langx|uk|Василь Олександрович Барвінський}}) (20 February 1888 – 9 June 1963) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and music related social figure.{{cite web|url= http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CB%5CA%5CBarvinskyVasyl.htm|title= Vasyl Barvinsky – Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine }}
Barvinsky was one of the first Ukrainian composers to gain worldwide recognition. His pieces were published not only in the Soviet Union, but also in Vienna, Leipzig, New York (Universal Edition), and Japan. Barvinsky directed a post-secondary musical institution in the city of Lviv (1915-1948) the Lysenko Higher Institute of Music, and was considered to be the head of musical life at the time. Currently there is a College of Music named after Barvinsky in Drohobych, Ukraine.{{cite web|url= http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CL%5CY%5CLysenkoHigherInstituteofMusic.htm|title= Lysenko Higher Institute of Music – Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine }}
Life
Vasyl Barvinsky was born in Ternopil, on 20 February 1888. Barvinsky descended from an older aristocratic family. Barvinsky's father, Oleksander Barvinsky, was a Ukrainian pedagogue, politician, and public figure. In 1917 he was appointed a member of the Austrian upper chamber. Vasyl's mother, singer and pianist, Yevheniya Barvinska, became his first music teacher.{{cite web|url= https://www.ukrainianartsong.ca/vasyl-barvinsky/|title= Ukrainian Art Song Project - Vasyl Barvinsky }} Barvinsky married Natalia Puluj, the daughter of scientist of radiology Ivan Puluj.{{cite book |url=https://www.icmp.lviv.ua/sites/default/files/preprints/pdf/2001U.pdf |title=Петер Пулюй i архiв Iвана Пулюя |author=Юрiй Головач, Роман Пляцко, Галина Сварник | publisher=Нацiональна академiя наук України |place=Львів |date=2020 |language=uk |page=4}}
In 1939 he founded Lviv Secondary Specialized Music Boarding School named after Solomiya Krushelnytska.{{Cite web|title=Львівська середня спеціалізована музична школа-інтернат ім. С. Крушельницької|url=http://www.akolada.org.ua/index.php?dep=&page=muzshkola_intern_lviv|access-date=2021-03-02|website=www.akolada.org.ua}}
In January 1948 Barvinsky and his wife were arrested by the NKVD. He was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by the Soviet authorities. He was exiled to a GULAG in Mordovia, at which time most of his printed and handwritten works were burned under mysterious circumstances in Lviv. After his release in 1958, he attempted to reconstruct works that had been destroyed, but he died on 9 June 1963, before completing this work. Many of the lost works were not rediscovered until after his death. Many works were lost forever. Barvinsky was posthumously rehabilitated in 1964.{{cite web|url= http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CB%5CA%5CBarvinskyVasyl.htm|title= Encyclopedia of Ukraine - Vasyl Barvinsky}}{{cite journal |url=http://ukrweekly.com/archive/pdf2/1983/The_Ukrainian_Weekly_1983-30.pdf |title=international aspects of Barvinsky |author=Roman Sawychy |date=24 July 1983 |journal=The Ukrainian Weekly |page=4}}{{cite book |url=https://um.etnolog.org.ua/download/pdf/um_2015.pdf |title=Українське Мистецтвознавство: матеріали, доспдження, рецензіі. Збірник наукових параць |publisher=Нацiональна академiя наук України |place=Киів |date=2015 |language=Ukrainian, English |page=70 |chapter=Миттєвості спілкування з класиком |
last=Гамкало |first=Іван}}
He was buried in Lviv in the family tomb in Lychakiv Cemetery, field number three.{{Cite web |title=Vasyl Oleksandrovych Barvinsky (1888-1963) - Find... |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91965159/vasyl-oleksandrovych-barvinsky |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=www.findagrave.com |language=en}}
Education
Barvinsky gained professional music education in Lviv conservatory. Barvinsky continued his music education in Prague. Among his teachers were Vilém Kurz (piano), and Vítězslav Novák (composition).{{cite web|url= https://www.ukrainianartsong.ca/vasyl-barvinsky/|title= Ukrainian Art Song Project - Vasyl Barvinsky }} When he began to teach, one of his first students was Stefania Turkewich.
Works
Barvinsky wrote about 30 works. Barvinsky's compositions are said to be impressive by their “… matureness’, thoughtfulness and delicacy”. Barvinsky composed in various genres except ballet and opera. His style, late romantic with impressionistic features, was also strongly influenced by Ukrainian folklore. Although many of Barvinsky's works were lost, most of his creative inheritance remained and is performed worldwide.{{cite web|url= https://www.ukrainianartsong.ca/vasyl-barvinsky/|title= Ukrainian Art Song Project - Vasyl Barvinsky }}
Compositions
=Orchestra=
- "Ukrainian Rhapsody" (Ukrayinska Rapsodiya – Українська рапсодія) (1911)
=Piano=
- Piano cycle "Love" (Liubov – Любов)
- Piano Sonata in D-flat major
- Piano Trio in A minor
- Piano Preludes
- Piano Concerto in F minor
- Five miniatures on Ukrainian folk themes
- Cycle for piano "Koliadky i Shchedrivky" (Колядки і щедрівки)
- Piano collection for children: "Our Sun is Playing Piano" (Nashe Sonechko Hraye na Fortepiano - Наше сонечко грає на фортепіано)
- "Ukrainian Suite" (Ukrayinska syuyita – Українська сюїта)
- "Lemkiv's Suite" (Lemkivshchyna) (Lemkivska syuyita – Лемківська сюїта)
- "Lemkiv's Dances" (Lemkivski tantsi – Лемківські танці)
- Six Solo Arrangements of Folk Songs, composed in 1912
- : Yanhil-yahilochka (Ягіл-ягілочка)
- : Oi, khodyla divchyna berizhkom (Ой, ходила дівчина беріжком)
- : Chy ty virno mene liubysh (Чи ти вірно мене любиш)
- : Vyishly v pole kosari (Вийшли в поле косарі)
- : Oi, ziydy, ziydy, yasen misiatsiu (Ой, зійди, зійди, ясен місяцю)
- : Lullaby Oi Khodyt Son (Ой ходиь сон)
=Choir miniature=
- "The Sun is Already Down" (Uzhe sonechko zakotylosia – Уже Сонечко Закотилося)
= Children choir =
- "On the Christmas Tree" (Na yalynku – На ялинку)
- "Summer" (Lito – Літо)
- "The song of pupils" (Pisnia Shkoliariv – Пісня школярів)
= Folk-song arrangements =
- "There on the Hill are Two Oaklets" (Tam na hori dva dubky – Там на горі два дубки)
- "Two Lemkiv's folk songs" (Dvi lemkivski narodni pisni – Дві Лемківські народні пісні)
= Chamber music =
- Sonata for Cello and Piano
- Nocturne for Cello (1910)
- Variations on folk-song theme for Cello (1918) (Variatsiyi na temu narodnoyi pisni "Oi, pyla, pyla ta Lymerykha na medu" – Варіації на тему народної пісні "Ой, пила, пила та Лимериха на меду")
- "Dumka" for Viola (1920) (Думка)
- Sonata and Suite for Viola and Piano
- Suite for Viola (1927)
- Sextet for piano and five string instruments
- String Quartet "Molodijniy" (published in 1941)
- String Quartet in B-flat major
- For Violin: "Humoreska", "Sumna Pisnia", "Kozachok", "Metelytsia", "Pisnia bez sliv" also known as "Harodna Melodiya"
References
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External links
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- {{IMSLP|id=Barvinski, Vassili|cname=Vasyl Barvinsky}}
Bibliography
- Dytyniak Maria Ukrainian Composers - A Bio-bibliographic Guide - Research report No. 14, 1896, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Canada.
External links
- [http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/pages/I/M/Impressionism.htm Impressionism in Music]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150416230922/http://www.ukrainianartsong.ca/composers-1/ Information about Barvinsky on Ukrainian Art Song Project's website]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uOG2vGZ9f0&list=OLAK5uy_keMHtTcBg3xaz7INhghgRuJKYgJhzRBCE Vasyl Barvinsky: Galicians I]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cyvmM1SZ8k&list=PLlPLtUOrQsQ99CR7Gfi1Na8XqEc1wuX1Y The Silenced Voice of Vasyl Barvinsky]
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