Mykola Arkas

Mykola Mykolayovych Arkas (born January 7, 1853, Mykolaiv – September 26, 1909, Mykolaiv) was a Ukrainian composer, writer, historian, and cultural activist. Arkas completed his studies in Physic and mathematics at the University of Odessa and served in the Black Sea Fleet. Arkas was the author of a popular History of Ukraine (1908).

Compositions

• Opera - Kateryna (1890) to the text of Taras Shevchenko's poem. Numerous romances, duets and arrangements of over 80 songs.

References

• Dytyniak Maria Ukrainian Composers - A Bio-bibliographic Guide - Research report No. 14, 1896, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Canada.

• Kaufman L. M. M. - Arkas - Narys pro zhyttia i tvorchist', Kiev, 1958.

External links

• Mykola Arkas - Encyclopedia of Ukraine

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Name	Arkas, Mykola
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Date of birth	January 7, 1853
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Date of death	September 26, 1909
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