Mykola Lysenko: Elegy, Op.41/3 (from 'Album from the Summer of 1902')

Mykola Lysenko (1842 –1912) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist. In order to improve his orchestration and composition skills the young Lysenko traveled to St. Petersburg where he took orchestration lessons from Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov in the mid-1870s, but his fervent Ukrainian national position and disdain for Great Russian autocracy impeded his career. He supported the 1905 revolution and was in jail briefly in 1907. In 1908, he was the head of the Ukrainian Club, an association of Ukrainian national public figures in Kiev. For his opera libretti Lysenko insisted on using only the Ukrainian language. Tchaikovsky was impressed by Lysenko's Taras Bulba and wanted to stage the work in Moscow, but Lysenko's insistence on it being performed in the Ukrainian language, not Russian, prevented the performance from taking place in Moscow. This piece is in a set of 3 pieces and was composed in, as the title suggests, 1902. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A method to find scores:    • Where I get most of the scores for the cha...   My donation link to keep the channel growing: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/gamma... Thanks for listening :-)