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Filipp Emelyanovich Kozytskiy

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Filipp Emelyanovich Kozytskiy

Birth
Cherkaska, Ukraine
Death
27 Apr 1960 (aged 66)
Kyiv, Pecherskyi raion, City of Kyiv, Ukraine
Burial
Kyiv, Pecherskyi raion, City of Kyiv, Ukraine Add to Map
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Composer.
Ukrainian Music Composer. An expressionist, his musical works are a mixture of elements of Ukrainian folk music with social and patriotic characteristics, strongly rooted to the national school of classical music of Ukraine established by Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko. He studied at the Kiev Theological Academy from 1917 and at the Kiev Conservatory from 1920. Between 1918 and 1924, he taught at the Lysenko Music and Drama Institute in Kiev, the Kharkiv Music and Drama Institute from 1925 until 1935, and the Kiev Conservatory. From 1938 until 1941 he worked as artistic director for the Ukrainian State Philharmonic. He was a founding member of the Leontovych Music Society, head of the Union of Soviet Composers of Ukraine from 1952 until 1956, and president of the Choral Society of the Ukrainian SSR from 1959 up to his death in 1960 at the age of 66. He wrote three operas. two cantatas, as well as pieces for the symphony orchestra, piano, choir, plays, and movies.
Composer.
Ukrainian Music Composer. An expressionist, his musical works are a mixture of elements of Ukrainian folk music with social and patriotic characteristics, strongly rooted to the national school of classical music of Ukraine established by Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko. He studied at the Kiev Theological Academy from 1917 and at the Kiev Conservatory from 1920. Between 1918 and 1924, he taught at the Lysenko Music and Drama Institute in Kiev, the Kharkiv Music and Drama Institute from 1925 until 1935, and the Kiev Conservatory. From 1938 until 1941 he worked as artistic director for the Ukrainian State Philharmonic. He was a founding member of the Leontovych Music Society, head of the Union of Soviet Composers of Ukraine from 1952 until 1956, and president of the Choral Society of the Ukrainian SSR from 1959 up to his death in 1960 at the age of 66. He wrote three operas. two cantatas, as well as pieces for the symphony orchestra, piano, choir, plays, and movies.

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