- Yevhen Adamtsevych
Yevhen Oleksandrovych Adamtsevych(19/XII/1904-1/I/1972)
Pominant blind Ukrainian
bandurist .Biography
Yevhen Adamtsevych was born in the village of Solonytsia, not far from the town of
Lubny ,Poltava oblast. He died in 1972 in the village of Kholmivka inCrimea .Adamtsevych became blind in his childhood. He lived in
Romny where he became apprenticed tobandurist M. P. Oleksienko . He began to perform solo from 1927.In 1939 he participated in the conference of
kobzar s which took place inKyiv , and in 1940 a conference on folk singers which took place inMoscow .Repertoire
His repertoire included many historic Ukrainian folk songs, however it did not contain any authentic
dumy .He did however have an epic work in his repertoire, structured somewhat like a duma to the words of M. Vorony - "Yevshan-Zillia".
Adamtsevych is known as the composer of the "Zaporozhian March" which was later orchestrated by
Viktor Hutsal and was included in the repertoire of theUkrainian State Orchestra of Ukrainian Folk Instruments in Kyiv.Sources
*Kudrytsky, A. V. - Mystetsvo Ukrainy - Biohrafichnyj dovidnyk, K, 1997
*Mishalow, V. and M. - Ukrains'ki kobzari-bandurysty - Sydney, Australia, 1986
*Pravdiuk, O. - Romens'kyj kobzar Yevhen Adamtsevych (1971)
*Pravdiuk, O. - Dejaki osoblyvosti suchasnoho slovesno-muyzhnoho folkloru i tvorchist' Ye. O. Adamtsevycha (1983)
*Moshyk, M. - Kozari ta bandurysty Sumshchyny - Sumy, 1999
*Zheplynsky, B. - Korotka istoriya kobzarstva v Ukrayini - Lviv, 2000Notes
(Zheplynsky states that Andamtsevych was born 1/1/1904 and died 20/XI/1972)
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