Английская Википедия:Hryhoriy Veryovka

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Hryhoriy Huriyovych Veryovka (Шаблон:Lang-uk, Шаблон:Old style date[1] – 21 October 1964) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer and choir director.[2]

He is best known for founding the renowned Veryovka Choir in 1943, and leading it for many years, gaining international recognition and winning multiple awards.[3] Veryovka was also a professor of conducting at the Kyiv Conservatory, where he worked alongside faculty including Boleslav Yavorsky, Alexander Koshetz, Mykola Leontovych, and Mykhailo Verykivsky.[4]

Career

Veryovka was born in an old Cossack town of Berezna (today urban-type settlement).[1] In 1916 he graduated from the Chernihiv Theological Seminary.[5] In 1918–21 Veryovka studied at the Lysenko music school (a predecessor of the Kyiv Conservatory) studying a musical composition by Boleslav Yavorsky,[6] conducting by Aleksander Orlov. In 1933 he received an external degree from the institute.[7]

From 1923 to 1927 Veryovka continued to work at the Lysenko Institute and later from 1931 to his death at the Kyiv Conservatory.[8] During World War II in 1941–45 he was a scientist of the Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology.

In 1943 in Kharkiv, Veryovka organized his well known choir and until his death was its art director and a main conductor.[3] In 1948–52 he headed the National Union of Composers of Ukraine.[9][10]

Upon his death in 1964 he was buried in Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv, and in 1967 a monument was erected at the site of his burial in his honor.[11]

Awards and honors

References

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