Russian & Soviet Composers - Part 3

[Jim Faston]

Did you 'adopt' those scores? See page 15 of this document, under 'New private partnerships'

https://library.stanford.edu/sites/defa ... France.pdf

[Scriabinoff]

request any piano pieces by (only if out of print/no longer published anywhere and if moderation allows it)
Stanyslav Lyudkevych
bio info I found (seems to have written a number of lovely vocal ensemble works, but piano would be great), and a cool piano concerto and some chamber works, here is a solo piano piece from youtube, really has a lovely sound to his style reminiscnent of that transitional late romantic/to early 20th century (more tonal based) side of the playground
Barcarola
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz6WAToIV1Y
dude had awesome hair!

young-lyudkevych.jpg

Stanyslav Pylypovych Lyudkevych (1879-1979) was born in Jarosław in present-day Poland. He studied philosophy at Lviv University from 1898-1907, worked as a teacher in Lviv and Przemyśl (also present-day Poland) from 1901, and edited the magazine Artistic Bulletin from 1905. In 1908, he earned a doctorate in musicology in Vienna. From 1910 he served as director of Lviv’s Mykola Lysenko higher musical institute, which he had helped to establish.



He served in the Austro-Hungarian army during WWI but was taken prisoner by the Russians soon after the start of the war. He spent most of the war in a camp in Kazakhstan, returning home to Lviv only in 1918. In the years 1919-1939, roughly coinciding with the period of the independent Polish republic, Lyudkevych was a teacher of theory at the musical institute, and from 1926, inspector of its affiliates. After the USSR annexed western Ukraine under the terms of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, Lyudkevych was a professor and remained in that position until his retirement in 1972 at the age of 93. The Mykola Lysenko Higher Musical Institute was renamed the Lviv State Conservatory in 1939, and Lyudkevych became head of music theory and composition there.


Lyudkevych near the end of his life

During WWII, he was a teacher of theoretical disciplines at the House of People’s Culture. In the period 1939-1951, he simultaneously held the position of senior fellow at the Lviv branch of the Institute of Art, Folklore and Ethnography of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (now the Maksym Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv). Lyudkevych composed works in many genres, including choral, chamber music and orchestral productions. Awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor in 1949, he went on to win many awards, including People’s Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1954), People’s Artist of the USSR (1969), Order of the Friendship of Peoples (1974), Hero of Socialist Labor (1979) and Order of Lenin (1979). He died in Lviv in 1979 at the age of 100.

[mballan]

Hi Scriabinoff

Lyudkevich tends to be a hard composer to track down............he did write a fairly sizeable amount of piano music but it is hard to find, although most would be in copyright, I am happy if members have the odd work to post because I know of the difficulty in locating his music.

A list of piano works below - the only work I have is the Album Leaf (attached).

I can ask some friends in Ukraine to check out his scores and will share if they strike lucky.

Malcolm

Song of the Night (1896)
Lullaby (1898)
Mother’s Admonition (1898)
Improvised Aria (1897-1900)
Romance (1897-1900)
Twenty-one Folk Songs & Other Pieces (1915 - 1949)
Song at Sunrise (1916-1919)
Elegy (Theme & Variations on an old Galician Song ‘Where the Black Mountain Is’) (1917)
Humoresque (1917)
Album Leaf (1917)
Variations on the theme ‘Tam de Chornhora’ (1917)
Barcarolle (1917-1921)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B major (1920 rev. 1950)
Song without Words (1922)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor (1930)
‘Pecking Hen’ (1941)
Little Romance (1941)
Ottaman’s Funeral (1941)
Dance (1953)
Piano Concerto No. 3 F# minor (1957) – arr. Two Pianos
Old Style Melodie
Ballade - Variations on a Ukrainian Folksong
Polka
Paraphrase on an Ukrainian Folk Theme
Scherzo
A Quiet Evening [based on a theme by Brahms]
Little Carolling Goat
Turkestan Motives

Lyudkevich S - Album Leaf.pdf

[fleubis]

Thank you, Malcolm. Grateful for the supplied fingerings in that Album Leaf.

[alfor]

Some older Lyudkevich postings:

search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&keyw ... *&start=10

[parag]

Another small piece which I found online.
There are a bunch of his vocal scores that are scattered online.

Lyudkevych - Old Piece.pdf

Best,
Parag

[minacciosa]

Hi Scriabinoff

Lyudkevich tends to be a hard composer to track down............he did write a fairly sizeable amount of piano music but it is hard to find, although most would be in copyright, I am happy if members have the odd work to post because I know of the difficulty in locating his music.

A list of piano works below - the only work I have is the Album Leaf (attached).

I can ask some friends in Ukraine to check out his scores and will share if they strike lucky.

Malcolm

Song of the Night (1896)
Lullaby (1898)
Mother’s Admonition (1898)
Improvised Aria (1897-1900)
Romance (1897-1900)
Twenty-one Folk Songs & Other Pieces (1915 - 1949)
Song at Sunrise (1916-1919)
Elegy (Theme & Variations on an old Galician Song ‘Where the Black Mountain Is’) (1917)
Humoresque (1917)
Album Leaf (1917)
Variations on the theme ‘Tam de Chornhora’ (1917)
Barcarolle (1917-1921)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B major (1920 rev. 1950)
Song without Words (1922)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor (1930)
‘Pecking Hen’ (1941)
Little Romance (1941)
Ottaman’s Funeral (1941)
Dance (1953)
Piano Concerto No. 3 F# minor (1957) – arr. Two Pianos
Old Style Melodie
Ballade - Variations on a Ukrainian Folksong
Polka
Paraphrase on an Ukrainian Folk Theme
Scherzo
A Quiet Evening [based on a theme by Brahms]
Little Carolling Goat
Turkestan Motives

Lyudkevich S - Album Leaf.pdf

As always, I'd love to see the orchestra stuff, or anything for violin.

[Scriabinoff]

Many thanks Malcolm, Alfor and Parag! A search I conducted didn't get hits so I may have typed wrong, so appreciate pointing in direction of previous posts!

[Scriabinoff]

another searching the site didn't get hits for, the last name did but for his son Mykola, this is about his father Filaret, any piano scores known of and if so, any postable or previously submitted and I missed?

short bio info I found
"...Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa (1871-1947) was a musicologist, folklorist and composer from Lviv, Ukraine. He graduated from Lviv University in 1896 and received a doctorate at Vienna University, where he studied under Anton Bruckner. He taught at several gymnasia (secondary schools in the Austro-Hungarian educational system) in Galicia (western Ukraine before becoming a professor at Lviv University in 1939, shortly before the Soviet annexation of Galicia that followed the Nazi-Soviet Pact. In 1940, the year of the annexation, he became the director of the Lviv branch of the Institute of Fine Arts, Folklore, Land Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR and the Ukrainian State Museum of Ethnography and Crafts. He was the father of composer and conductor Mykola Kolessa (1903-2006). NOTE ALFOR PREVIOUSLY POSTED SOME SCORES FOR MYKOLA-

He is perhaps most famous for his published works dealing with the origin of Ukrainian ‘dumas,’ epic sung poems, and his writings include A Survey of Ukrainian-Rus Folk Poetry (1905), The Rhythmics of Ukrainian Folk Songs (1906-07), Melodies of Ukrainian Folk Dumas—Vol. I (1910) and Vol. II (1913), Variants of the Melodies of Ukrainian Folk Dumas: Their Characterization and Grouping (1913), On the Genesis of Ukrainian Folk Dumas (1920-22), Folk Songs from the Galician Lemko Region (1929) and The Ukrainian Oral Literature (1938). His best known musical compositions include choral works and folk melody arrangements..."

[ilu]

Does anyone have Sauil Maykapar Op. 28 (complete).

Thanks in advance and happy Easter!