Mykhailo Verykivsky

In early years Mykhailo Verykivsky grows in an atmosphere of love and respect for Ukrainian native folk songs, which influenced his musical work.

He continued his musical education at the Kremenets Commercial School (1912-1914), where he conducted the choir and orchestra of folk instruments, played in the school symphony orchestra, studied cello, piano and made his first attempts at composition - he created piano preludes and romances.

[1][2] From 1922 he works as a teacher at the Mykola Lysenko Institute of Music and Drama and, later, in Kyiv Conservatory (until 1960, with a break in 1941–1944; from 1946 he was its professor).

1940 - head of the State Chapel "Dumka" [uk],[2] 1950-1958 - researcher at the Institute of Art History, Folklore and Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

His works include the ballet Pan Kaniovsky;[note 1] 5 operas (including Taras Shevchenko-based operas The Sotnyk[note 2] and The Servant Girl); an oratorio on Marusia Bohuslavka; five cantatas; a concerto for piano and orchestra (1950); a number of orchestral works; a large body of piano music; chamber and church music; original choral works and arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs for chorus; about 70 original solo art songs and settings of Ukrainian folk songs for voice and piano; children's songs; and music for radio and films.