Mykola Pavlovych Dyletsky

Mykola Pavlovych Dyletsky, also Nikolai Pavlovich Diletsky (, ), c. 1630c. after 1680) was a choir director, music theorist, and composer born in the Kiev Voivodeship of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and active in the Tsardom of Russia. There is evidence he died in Moscow. Little information about his life is known. He was widely influential in late 17th-century Russia with his treatise on part song, A Musical Grammar, of which the earliest surviving version dates from 1677. Dyletsky’s followers included the Russian composer Vasily Titov. Life Little is known about Mykola Pavlovych Dyletsky, who at various times during his life lived in Vilnius, Kyiv, Smolensk, and Moscow.. Kyiv Ioannikii Trofimovich Korenev, a fellow music theorist, described him as a resident of Kyiv—()—and this remark is considered evidence of Dyletsky’s Ukrainian origins. Korenev’s statement is probably reliable, as they were apparently were well acquainted. The pair worked together; their treatises are paired in some manuscript sources. However, the date and even the year of Dyletsky’s birth are not known, and no details on his early life have surfaced. Vilnius Dyletsky may have been educated at the Vilni