Borys Lyatoshynsky

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Name = Borys Lyatoshynsky


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Background = non_performing_personnel
Born = OldStyleDate|January 3|1895|Dec. 22, 1984
Died = Death date and age|1968|05|15|1895|01|03
Origin = Zhytomyr, Russian Empire
Instrument = Violin, Piano
Occupation = Composer, conductor, and teacher

Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshynsky ( _uk. Борис Миколайович Лятошинський) (January 3, 1895 - April 15, 1968) was a composer, conductor, teacher, and leading member of the new generation of twentieth century Ukrainian composers.

Biography

Borys Lyatoshynsky was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. His father, Mykola Leontiyovych Lyatoshynsky, was a history teacher and was an activist in historical studies. He was also the director of various gymnasiums in Zhytomyr, Nemyriv, and Zlatopol. Lyatoshynsky's mother played the piano well and sang.

Lyatoshynsky started out playing piano and violin. At age 14, he wrote a few musical pieces including a mazurka and waltz for piano, along with quartet for piano. He also attended the Zhytomyr Gymnasium, from where he graduated in 1913. After graduating, he joined the Kyiv University and later, to the newly-established Kyiv Conservatory, where he studied composition with Reinhold Gliere in 1914. Lyatoshynsky graduated from the Kyiv University in 1918, and from the Kyiv Conservatory in 1919. During this period of time, significant musical works of Lyatoshynsky were his String Quartet No.1 opus 1 and his Symphony No.1 opus 2.

In 1920, Lyatoshynsky started to teach musical-theoretical disciplines in the Kyiv Conservatory, and from 1922 he taught composition. From 1922 to 1925 he was in charge of the Association of Modern Music in the name of Mykola Leontovych.

Works

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*The Golden Ring, opera in 4 acts opus 23 (1929) (revised in 1970)
*"Shchors", opera in 5 acts after I. Kocherha and M.Rylsky opus 29 (1937)
*The Commander, opera (1970)

Orchestral

*5 symphonies
**Symphony No. 1 A major opus 2 (1918-1919)
**Symphony No. 2 B minor opus 26 (1935-1936) Revised in 1940.
**Symphony No. 3 B minor opus 50 "To the 25th Anniversary of the October revolution" (1951)
**Symphony No. 4 Bmusic|flat minor opus 63 (1963) [cite web|title=Library of Congress Record Link to Recording of 4th and 5th Symphonies|url=http://lccn.loc.gov/96701750|accessdate=2008-08-29]
**Symphony No. 5 C major "Slavonic" opus 67 (1965-1966)
*Fantastic March opus 3 (1920)
*Overture on four Ukrainian Folk themes opus 20 (1927)
*Suite from the Opera "The Golden Tire" opus 23 (1928)
*Lyric Poem (1947)
*Song of the reunification of Russia opus 49 (1949-1950)
*Waltz (1951)
*Suite from the Film music "Taras Shevchenko" opus 51 (1952)
*Slavonic Concerto for piano and orchestra opus 54 (1953)
*Suite from the Play "Romeo and Juliet" opus 56 (1955)
*"On the Banks of Vistula", symphonic poem opus 59 (1958)
*Orchestration of String Quartet No. 2 A major opus 4 (No. 2 Intermezzo) for orchestra (1960)
*Polish Suite opus 60 (1961)
*Slavonic Overture opus 61 (1961)
*Lyric Poem "To the Memory of Gliere" opus 66 (1964)
*Slavonic Suite opus 68 (1966)
*Festive Overture opus 70 (1967)
*"Grazyna", ballade after A. Mickiewicz opus 58 (1955)

Vocal/Choral Orchestral

*Festive Cantata "To the 60th Anniversary of Stalin" after Rilskov for mixed chorus and orchestra (1938)
*"Inheritance", cantata after Shevtshenko (1939)

Chamber/Instrumental

*5 string quartets
**String Quartet No. 1 D minor opus 1 (1915)
**String Quartet No. 2 A major opus 4 (1922)
**String Quartet No. 3 opus 21 (1928)
**String Quartet No. 4 opus 43 (1943)
**String Quartet No. 5 (1944-1951)
*Piano Trio No. 1 opus 7 (1922) (revised in 1925)
*Sonata for violin and piano opus 19 (1926)
*Three Pieces after Folksong-Themes for violin and piano opus 25 (1932)
*Piano Trio No. 2 opus 41 (1942)
*Piano Quintet "Ukrainian Quintet" opus 42 (1942)
*Suite on Ukrainian Folksong-Themes for string quartet opus 45 (1944)
*Suite for wind quartet opus 46 (1944)
*Two Mazurkas on Polonian Themes for cello and piano (1953)
*Nocturne and Scherzo for viola and piano (1963)

Piano

*Elegy-Prelude (1920)
*Piano Sonata No. 1 opus 13 (1924)
*Seven Pieces "Reflections" opus 16 (1925)
*Piano Sonata No. 2 "Sonata Ballade" opus 18 (1925)
*Ballad opus 22 (1928-1929)
*Ballad opus 24 (1929)
*Suite (1941)
*Three Preludes opus 38 (1942)
*Two Preludes opus 38b (1942)
*Shevchenko-Suite (1942) Not finished.
*Five Preludes opus 44 (1943)
*Concerto Etude-Rondo (1962-1965)
*Concert-Etude (1962-1967)

Vocal

*"Moonshadow", song after Verlaine, I.Severyanin, Balmont and Wilde opus 9 (1923)
*Two Poems after Shelley opus 10 (1923)
*Two Songs after Maeterlinck and Balmont opus 12 (1923)
*Four Poems after Shelley opus 14 (1924)
*Poems for baritone and piano opus 15 (1924)

Choral

*The Sun Rises at the Horizon, song after Shevtshenko for chorus
*Water, Flow into the Blue Lake!, song after Shevtshenko for chorus
*Seasons after Pushkin for chorus
*Po negy kradetsya luna after Pushkin for chorus
*Kto, volny, vas ostanovil after Pushkin for chorus

Incidental and Film music

*Music to the Play "Optimistic Tragedy" (1932)
*Music to the Film "Taras Shevtshenko" (1950)
*Music to the Play "Romeo and Julia" (1954)
*Music to the Film "The Hooked Pig's Snout" (1956)
*Music to the Film "Ivan Franko" (1956)

Band

*March No. 1 for wind orchestra (1931)
*March No. 2 for wind orchestra (1932)
*March No. 3 for wind orchestra (1936)

Transcriptions

*Orchestration of Lysenko's Opera "Taras Bulba" (Co-operation with L. Revutsky)
*Orchestration of Gliere's Violin Concerto (Co-operation with K. G. Mostras)

References

External links

* [http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/bio21096.htm Boris Lyatoshynsky]
* [http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/liatos.htm Liatoshinsky page at Onno van Rijen's Soviet Composers Site]