{"id":4908,"date":"2015-03-12T14:52:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T12:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umfuturum.com\/history\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T23:11:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:11:03","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umfuturum.com\/en\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"HISTORY"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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A Brief History of Ukrainian Music
The roots of Ukrainian music go back to the deep past. The frescoes of the 11th-century St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv testify to the diversity of musical culture in the times of Kievan Rus (the East Slavic empire in the Middle Ages). The dancers are accompanied by a group of brass, percussion, and string instruments.
Ukrainian folk music existed in the era before the introduction of Christianity in Ukraine and was considered one of the most diverse in Europe. Researchers have counted up to 500,000 Ukrainian folk songs of various genres: historical, epic, lyrical, dance, etc., which have been passed down from generation to generation. Knowledge of these songs and written records have survived to this day.
Out of the connection between Byzantine music and Slavic folk music, sacred vocal music practiced in church services developed with Christianization in the late 10th century. From the 12th to the 17th centuries, monophonic “sign chant” spread in Orthodox churches and had a significant impact on composers of the following eras.
In the Baroque era, the chant was replaced by polyphonic partes singing. This change created the basis for the development of a new style, the spiritual concert. Prominent composers of this period include Mykola Diletskyi, Dmytro Bortnyanskyi, Artemii Vedel, and Dmytro Beresovskyi. Dmytro Bortnyansky and D. After studying in Ukraine, Beresovsky went to Italy to improve his skills there. The combination of the polyphonic tradition of their homeland (partes singing) and Italian vocal music allowed them to create unique works. In addition to instrumental music, they wrote operas. They were the first Ukrainian composers whose operas were successfully performed in Italy.<\/p>

Ukraine was annexed to Russia in 1654. Beginning in the 17th century, numerous Ukrainian singers were recruited to sing in the tsarist court choirs in Moscow and St. Petersburg and, although ethnically Ukrainian, were considered Russian official singers. Until the 18th century, all Ukrainian culture, especially in the field of music, had a significant influence on Russian culture. At the same time, Russia tried to deny this influence, for example, by calling Ukrainian singers Russian, denying the ethnic origin of two composers, Bortyansky and Berezovsky, who were successful in Italy, and calling them Russians.
The eradication of the Ukrainian language and culture began in 1654, as a result of Ukraine’s accession to Russia:<\/p>


1729 \u0440. Decree on the destruction of Ukrainian primers and the prohibition of texts of church books
1801 Closure of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, opened in 1632. 1914 \u0440. Liquidation of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Church
1929 Liquidation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church<\/p>

Romanticism
The 19th century was another important period in Ukrainian music. The most prominent representative of Ukrainian Romanticism was the outstanding Ukrainian composer, conductor, and pianist Mykola Lysenko. He studied in Leipzig. Under the influence of Western European culture, he managed to use Western European musical techniques to create a new musical language of Ukrainian folk music. A whole generation of Ukrainian composers, including Kyrylo Stetsenko, Yakiv Stepovyi, Stanislav Liudkevych, and Mykhailo Leontovych, were significantly influenced by him.<\/p>

XX. Century<\/p>

The Russification of Ukrainian culture, which lasted for three centuries, reached its peak in the 20th century. In 1921, Mykola Leontovych, a famous collector of Ukrainian folk music, composer and author of the world-famous Shchedryk, was shot by Soviet agents. In 1930, 337 Ukrainian kobzars (blind musicians who played traditional musical instruments) were killed along with their conductors, and their instruments were burned.<\/p>

The Holodomor, ordered by Stalin, caused the starvation of 3.9 million Ukrainians in 1932-1933.
“Executed Renaissance” or “Executed Renaissance” is a literal translation of the terms referring to the events of the 1930s. Countless Ukrainian writers, publicists, and artists who attempted to bring about a cultural revival in the Ukrainian Soviet Republic were imprisoned by the Stalinist regime, executed, or deported to the Gulag camps; many of those imprisoned did not survive their time in the camps.<\/p>

One of the victims of the Soviet regime was the prominent Ukrainian composer Vasyl Barvinsky (1988-1963). He is considered the “last romantic” of the new historical period of Ukrainian musical art. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and forced to agree to the destruction of all his work.
Levko Revutsky (1889-1977) and Borys Liatoshynsky (1895-1968) were the founders of the “new” Ukrainian music of the 20th century. Their works combine folk music and modernism. In the 1960s, a group of young Ukrainian composers, such as Valentyn Silvestrov, Leonid Hrabovsky, Petro Solovkin, Vitaliy Godtsatsky, and Ihor Blazhkov, tried to break or loosen the shackles of censorship and wrote in a distinctly avant-garde musical style. They were banned. After Ukraine gained its independence in 1991, international festivals were organized in Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, and other cities, where the general Ukrainian public was presented with works by Ukrainian composers of the Baroque, Classicist, and Romantic eras, as well as contemporary music.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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