Pylyp Kozytskiy

Pylyp Omelyanovych Kozytskiy (; 23 October 1893 – 27 April 1960) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer, musicologist, professor, head of the department of history of music at the Kyiv Conservatory, and Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR (1943). Between 1918 and 1924, he taught at the Lysenko Music and Drama Institute in Kyiv, the Kharkiv Music and Drama Institute from 1925 to 1935, and the Kyiv Conservatory. and president of the Choral Society of the Ukrainian SSR from 1959 up to his death in 1960. Kozytskiy died in Kyiv on 27 April 1960, and is buried in the Baikove Cemetery. Musical works Operas * Unknown Soldier (1934) * Jean Giradin (1937) * For the Fatherland (1943) - For symphony orchestra Cantatas * In memory of the Bolsheviks (1951) - For choir a cappella * Hello, Spring (1952) - For children’s choir Symphony orchestra * Kozak Holota (1925) - Suite * Partisan’s Daughter (1938) - Poem * Variations on a theme of the folk song Kupala (1925) - For String Quartet * Variations on a theme of the Bashkirs (1943) Piano * Pages of Childhood (1913) * 7 Preludes - For voice and piano, with words by P. Tychyna, and R. Tagore Choir * Spring Oratorio (1921) * Eight Preludes Songs (1924