Which piece is Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych most famous for?
Mykola Leontovych
Mykola Leontovych specialised in a cappella choral music. He is remembered today mostly through the musical works he left behind, which include over 150 choral compositions. These range from artistic arrangements of folk songs, religious works (including his liturgy), cantatas, and choral compositions set to the words of various Ukrainian poets. His two most famous works are the choral miniatures "Schedryk" and "Dudaryk".
Leopold Godowsky
As a composer, Godowsky has been best known for his paraphrases of piano pieces by other composers, which he enhanced with ingenious contrapuntal devices and rich chromatic harmonies. His most famous work in this genre is the "53 Studies on Chopin's Études" (1894–1914), in which he varies the (already challenging) original études using various methods: introducing countermelodies, transferring the technically difficult passages from the right hand to the left, transcribing an entire piece for left hand solo, or even interweaving two études, with the left hand playing one and the right hand the other.
Fyodor Rokotov
Among his best-known portraits are "" (1772), sometimes called the Russian Mona Lisa and admittedly the most celebrated piece of the 18th-century Russian painting; "Portrait of Countess Elisabeth Santi" (1785), and "Lady in a Pink Dress" (1770s, "illustration", "right").
Mykhailo Verbytsky
As a composer he helped lay the foundations for the development of modern Ukrainian music. His works are formally unsophisticated, often strophic, and usually in the minor mode; but his stage works (notably "Prostachka" (‘The Simpleton’), 1870) are representative of a popular folk genre that was melodically fluid, singable, pictorial and emotionally evocative. His instrumental writing does not extend far beyond the simple development of folktunes. Nevertheless, he composed 12 so-called symphonies (really overtures), the sixth of which Stanislav Lyudkevich based an orchestral piece and a piano trio. He also composed "Zapovit" (‘Testament’, 1868), a setting of Shevchenko’s poem for bass solo, double choir and orchestra, the operetta "Podgoryane" which was staged in Lemberg (now L′viv, 1864), and numerous sacred and secular choral works and songs. He is best known as the composer of the Ukrainian national anthem by the words of Pavel Chubinsky "Shche ne vmerla Ukrayiny" (‘Ukraine has not Perished’), which in 1917 was adopted by the new Ukrainian republican government.
Stojan Batič
Batič, predominantly a figurative sculptor, is known for about 40 public monuments depicting events from Slovene history, as well as European and Oriental myths and legends. His best-known works include the monument to the Slovene peasant revolts at Ljubljana Castle featuring a group of men holding war scythes, and the "Itaka" series of figurative sculptures. His 1957 bronze sculpture (Ballet) stands in front of Tivoli Castle in Tivoli Park in Ljubljana. In the 1960s, he created a mining-related series in lignite, and in the 1970s a series of glass sculptures, the two representing his most significant approach to abstract art.
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya
Rimsky-Korsakov and Belsky first became interested in writing an opera on the Kitezh legend during the winter of 1898-1899, while they were working on the libretto to "The Tale of Tsar Saltan". The idea of combining the legend of St. Fevroniya into the story was part of the project from the beginning. The project remained in the minds of both composer and the librettist, but would have to wait until 1903 until serious work could begin. During the period between 1898 and the beginning of 1903, the composer was occupied with the composition of the operas "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", "Servilia", "Kashchey the Immortal" and "Pan Voyevoda". In his "My Musical Life", Rimsky-Korsakov mentions "In the midst of work on "Pan Voyevoda" Belsky and I pondered intensively the subject of "The Tale of the Invisible City of Kityezh and of the Maiden Fyevroniya"." Rimsky-Korsakov had written a rough draft of the first act by the end of summer, and Belsky had completed the libretto by spring. By summer of 1904, Rimsky-Korsakov had finished the composition of the second tableau of Act III and was orchestrating the opera. During the summer of 1905, while writing his "Principles of Orchestration", Rimsky-Korsakov also polished the orchestral score to "Kitezh", and made a clean final copy to send to the printers.
Rodion Shchedrin
He has written five concertos for orchestra: the first, variously translated as "Naughty Limericks" or "Mischievous Folk Ditties" (neither of which completely get the gist of the Russian which refers to a chastushka (часту́шка), an irreverent, satirical kind of folk song) is by far the best known, and was the work which first established him on the international stage. The second of the Concertos for Orchestra was subtitled "Zvony" (The Chimes), and was premiered by the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein as one of the many commissions in honor of the orchestra's 125th anniversary. The third Concerto for Orchestra is based on old music of Russian provincial circuses. Concerto 4, "Khorovody" (round dances), was written in 1989, and Concerto 5, "Four Russian Songs", was written in 1998.
Ludwig Minkus
Minkus is noted for the music he composed while serving as the official Composer of Ballet Music to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres in Russia. During his long career, he wrote for the original works and numerous revivals staged by the renowned Ballet Masters Arthur Saint-Léon and Marius Petipa. Among the composer's most celebrated compositions was his score for "La source" (1866; composed jointly with Léo Delibes), "Don Quixote" (1869); and "La Bayadère" (1877). Minkus also wrote supplemental material for insertion into already existing ballets. The most famous and enduring of these pieces is the "Grand Pas classique" from the ballet "Paquita", which was added by Marius Petipa especially for a revival of the ballet staged for the benefit performance of the prima ballerina Ekaterina Vazem in 1881. For this revival Minkus also composed the "Mazurka des enfants" ("Children's Mazurka") and an expanded edition of the ballet's "Pas de trois", which would go on to become known as the "Minkus pas de trois".
Klement Slavický
Slavicky studied under Karel Boleslav Jirák and Josef Suk. He was inspired by Moravian folk music and the works of Leoš Janáček. The best-known of his works are the double chorus "Lidice", "Rapsodické variace pro orchestr" (Rhapsodic Variations for Orchestra), the sonata "Přátelství" (Friendship) for violin and piano, the dramatic fresco "Cesta ke světlu" (The Way Toward the Light), the brilliant "Toccata" from the cycle "Three pieces for piano" (1947) and Symfonietta IV, "Pax hominibus in universo orbi", which was dedicated by Slavický to the United Nations for the 40th anniversary of its birth. There is also a song-cycle "Oh, My Heart So Wretched", which sets five Slovak folk poems and which has recently (2010) been recorded by the soprano Marie Fajtová. The 12 Small Studies for Piano have been recorded in 2016 by the slovak pianist Zuzana Zamborska (Diskant, DK 0164-2131).
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky wrote many works that are popular with the classical music public, including his "Romeo and Juliet", the "1812 Overture", his three ballets ("The Nutcracker", "Swan Lake", "The Sleeping Beauty") and "Marche Slave". These, along with his First Piano Concerto and his Violin Concerto, the last three of his six numbered symphonies and his operas "The Queen of Spades" and "Eugene Onegin", are among his most familiar works. Almost as popular are the "Manfred" Symphony, "Francesca da Rimini", the "Capriccio Italien" and the Serenade for Strings.
Mykola Sumtsov
Mykola Sumtsov wrote extensively. The bibliography of his known works contains 1544 entries. His writings mainly concern two areas of science: ethnography and literature. In addition to the local periodicals, his works were also published in Bulgarian, Polish, Bohemian, German and French academic publications.
Mlada (Rimsky-Korsakov)
In the middle of "Mlada", a fantasy tale about ancient pagan Slavs, Cleopatra emerges in a scene that exudes sensuality. Rimsky-Korsakov said "Among my musical impressions of Paris [at the World Exhibition, summer 1889] I reflect on music in Hungarian and Algerian cafes. The virtuoso playing of a Hungarian orchestra on "tsevnitsas" (Pan flutes) gave me the idea of introducing this ancient instrument... during the dances at Cleopatra's. In an Algerian cafe, I was attracted to the beat of a large drum... This effect I also borrowed for the scene of Cleopatra."
Leonid Desyatnikov
Leonid Desyatnikov was born in 1955 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He is a graduate of the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied composition and instrumentation. Desyatnikov has penned four opera, several cantatas and numerous vocal and instrumental compositions. His principal compositions include: "The Children of Rosenthal" (an opera in two acts; libretto, Vladimir Sorokin), commissioned by the Bolshoi Theatre; "Poor Liza" (a chamber opera in one act; libretto, Leonid Desyatnikov, after the novel by Nikolai Karamzin); "Gift" (a cantata based on the verses of Gavrila Derzhavin); "The Leaden Echo" (a work for voice(s) and instruments based on the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins); and "The Rite of Winter 1949" (a symphony for chorus, soloists and orchestra).
Muddle Instead of Music
Leningrad composer Dmitri Shostakovich completed his opera "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" in 1932. Set in pre-revolutionary times, "Lady Macbeth" deals with themes of lust, loneliness and murder. Some of its scenes are sexually explicit; a review in the "New York Sun" called the opera "pornophony". On 24 January 1934 the work premiered to great success, lauded by critics and government officials. "Lady Macbeth" quickly spread to opera houses worldwide, cementing Shostakovich's status as an international celebrity. In the Soviet Union it received instant praise. The newspaper "Sovetskoe iskusstvo" honored "Lady Macbeth" as "a triumph of musical theatre", while "Sovetskaya muzyka" called it "the best Soviet work, the chef-d'oeuvre of Soviet creativity." Party officials were likewise pleased, extolling the opera and terming Shostakovich "a Soviet composer brought up in the best tradition of Soviet culture." In 1934 and 1935 the opera was performed several hundred times nationwide.
Vasyl Barvinsky
"Bela Bartok in Lviv" ("Bela Bartok U Lvovi" - Бела Барток у Львові)
"An overview of Ukrainian Music History" ("Ohliad istoriyi ukrayinskoyi muzyky" - Огляд історії української музики)
"Ukrainian Music" ("Ukrayinska muzyka" -Українська музика)
"The New Age of Ukrainian Music" (co-authored by Steshko and Liudkevych)("Nova doba ukrainskoyi muzyky" -Нова доба української музики)
"My Memories about Mykola Lysenko" (1937) ("Moyi spohady pro Mykolu Lysenka" - Мої спогади про Миколу Лисенка) 
"Viktor Kosenko" (1939)
"Creative Work of V. Novak" ("Tvorchist V. Novaka" - Творчість В. Новака) 
"Ukrainian Folk Song and Ukrainian Composers" (Prague 1914) ("Ukrayinska narodna pisnia i ukrayinski kompozytory" -Українська народна пісня і українські композитори)
"Characteristics of Ukrainian folk song and its Research" ("Kharakterystyka ukrayinskoyi narodnoyi pisni ta yiyi doslidzhennia - Характеристика української народної пісні та її дослідження)
Andrey Petrov
Petrov is known for his work in various genres; he wrote a number of operas and ballets, as well as symphonic works, incidental and film music, and various songs. He is especially famous for his ballet "Creation of the World", based on drawings by Jean Effel. This was performed around the world, with Mikhail Baryshnikov among its first performers. Petrov also scored over eighty films, including the Soviet-American co-production "The Blue Bird".
Michael Pacher
His most famous work, the "St. Wolfgang Altarpiece", remains in its original location and setting in St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut on the Abersee (the western end of lake Wolfgangsee) in Austria. The altarpiece is a polyptych, or Wandelaltar, where a painting is divided into four or more segments or panels. There are two pairs of movable wings, and three different displays for use on different occasions: an everyday display, a Sunday display, and a display for special holy days.
Boris Fitinhof-Schell
Fitinhoff-Schell is also noted for his "Fantastic Overture" to his opera "Mazeppa" (1859, libretto by Prince Grigory Kugushev), in which whole-tone scales were profusely employed. Franz Liszt greatly appreciated this piece, describing its effect as "" ... terrifying to all long and protruding ears."" Liszt himself made use of the whole-tone scale in his "Divina Commedia", illustrating the Inferno, and he used it systematically in his posthumously published organ and late piano pieces.
Marius Petipa
The director Vsevolozhsky commissioned the great composer Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky to compose the score for Petipa's "The Sleeping Beauty", which premiered on . The ballet proved to be Petipa's most enduring work, going on to be considered as the quintessential classical ballet, as well as one of Petipa's ultimate masterpieces of choreography. The ballet proved to be so popular that by April 1903 it had been performed 100 times, making it one of the most popular works in the Imperial Ballet's repertory, second only to Petipa's "The Pharaoh's Daughter".
Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (Leontovych)
Mykola Leontovych had a professional theological education from the theological seminary in Kamianets-Podilskiy, and spent a portion of his career as a priest. When the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church was established and recognized in 1918, Leontovych joined in the movement. His musical output began to reflect this as he started to publish works of a religious nature such as "" ("On the Resurrection of Christ"), "" ("Praise ye the name of the Lord"), and "" ("Oh quiet light").
Jacob Gilboa
His best-known work is "Twelve Glass Windows of Chagall in Jerusalem", for voice and instruments (1966). In addition, he composed "Thistles", for horn, percussion, piano, and cello (1967), "Pastels" for two pianos, the piano suite "Seven Little Insects" (1956), and "The Grey Colours of Käthe Kollwitz" for mezzo-soprano, chamber orchestra, and tape.
Raymonda
There have been many productions around the world of only extracts from the full-length "Raymonda", for the most part taken from the "Grand Pas Classique hongrois" from the third act, which is considered to be among Marius Petipa's supreme masterpieces. The most noted of these productions have been staged by George Balanchine for the New York City Ballet (1955, 1961, 1973); Rudolf Nureyev for the Royal Ballet Touring Company (1964); and Mikhail Baryshnikov for American Ballet Theatre (1980, 1987).
Mykola Leontovych
During his lifetime, Leontovych's compositions and arrangements became popular with professional and amateur groups alike across the Ukrainian region of the Russian Empire. Performances of his works in western Europe and North America earned him the nickname "the Ukrainian Bach" in France. Apart from his very popular "Shchedryk", Leontovych's music is performed primarily in Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora.
Stefan Flukowski
His most notable piece of work being Wiersze
Mykola Lysenko
Lysenko's larger works for piano include "Ukrainian Suite in Form of Ancient Dances", two rhapsodies (the second, "Dumka-shumka" is one of his most-known works), "Heroic scherzo" and Sonata in A minor. He also wrote dozens of smaller works like nocturnes, polonaises, songs without words, program pieces. Some of his piano works show influence of Frédéric Chopin's style. Lysenko's chamber music includes a string quartet, a trio for two violins and viola, and a number of works for violin and piano.
Mykola Leontovych
Mykola Leontovych was highly critical of himself. According to his first biographer Oles' Chapkivskyi, a contemporary of the composer, Leontovych would sometimes work on one choral setting without letting anyone else see it for up to four years. After the publication of his Second Compilation of Songs from Podolia, he changed his mind and was not fully satisfied with it, and as a result he bought all 300 copies and had them destroyed.
Dmitry Gorchakov
Dmitry Gorchakov was best known for his comedy plays "King for a Day" (Калиф на час, Moscow, 1786), "The Lucky Tonya" (Счастливая тоня, Moscow, 1786) and "Baba Yaga" (Баба-Яга, Kaluga, 1788). Based on Arab and Russian folklore, but featuring 'modern' characters (with 'character' names like podyachy Bribetakin), these works parodied ways of Russian petty officials, denouncing corruption, bribery and theft. Among his major influences were Gavrila Derzhavin and Nikolai Nikolev, the latter a close friend. It was the latter's anti-tyranny tragedy "Sorena and Zamir" that inspired Gorchakov to write in the late 1880s his pro-democracy, American-based tragedy which remained both untitled and unpublished. Another unpublished "comedy in verse", "The Carefree One" (Беспечный) was staged in 1799 in Saint Petersburgh. His novelet "Plamir and Raida" came out in 1796.
Bedřich Smetana
From 1862 Smetana was largely occupied with opera and, apart from a few short pieces, did not return to purely orchestral music before beginning "Má vlast" in 1872. In his introduction to the Collected Edition Score, František Bartol brackets "Má vlast" with the opera "Libuše" as "direct symbols of [the] consummating national struggle". "Má vlast" is the first of Smetana's mature large-scale works that is independent of words, and its musical ideas are bolder than anything he had tried before. To musicologist John Clapham, the cycle presents "a cross-section of Czech history and legend and impressions of its scenery, and ... conveys vividly to us Smetana's view of the ethos and greatness of the nation." Despite its nationalistic associations this work has, according to Newmarch, carried Smetana's name further afield than anything he wrote, with the exception of "The Bartered Bride" Overture. Smetana dedicated "Má vlast" to the city of Prague; after its first performance in November 1882 it was acclaimed by the Czech musical public as the true representation of Czech national style. Its "Vltava" (or "The Moldau" in German) movement, depicting the river that runs through Prague towards its junction with the Elbe, is Smetana's best-known and most internationally popular orchestral composition.
Michael Praetorius
Praetorius was a prolific composer; his compositions show the influence of Italian composers and his younger contemporary Heinrich Schütz. His works include the nine volume "Musae Sioniae" (1605–10), a collection of more than twelve hundred (ca. 1244) chorale and song arrangements; volume eleven of twenty is called "Missodia Sionia" and contains sacred music in Latin for church services for two to eight voices. He wrote many other works for the Lutheran church; and "Terpsichore", a compendium of more than 300 instrumental dances, which is both his most widely known work, and his sole surviving secular work.
Leontiy Semeonovich Miropolskiy
He received numerous orders from the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts to paint different artistic works. He is famous for his painted portraits of children. In 1794, he received the title of academician for a portrait of the adjunct professor Gabriel Ignatievich Kozlov (currently in the museum of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts). The portraits completed by him are distinguished by strict individualization of the image and are close to the works of his teacher Dmitry Levitzky (portraits of Pyotr Vyazemsky, Countess Komarovskaya, E. A. Melgunova and D. F. Astafieva).
Mykola Kanevets
Mykola first began to work with Cheremosh in 1991. Over the years, Mykola has created and staged numerous dance programs, such as Cheremosh's western Alberta Tour (1992–1993), Cheremosh's participation at the Aberdeen International Youth Festival in Scotland (1996 and 2000) and the International Folk Dance Festival in Idaho (2002). Mykola also choreographed Cheremosh's 30th Anniversary tour production “New Beginnings” (1999), as well as, “Cheremosh… Revolutions!” (2005), “Canadian Dance Steps: Journey to the Great Wall” in 2007 and Cheremosh's 40th anniversary production "The Art of Cheremosh".
Ludwig Minkus
It is unlikely that Minkus ever worked again for the Imperial Theatres in an official capacity. Differing accounts survive from contemporary sources concerning Minkus's involvement in the final two productions in Russia to credit him as composer. These works were first presented between Minkus's retirement in 1886 and his final departure from Russia in 1891. The first was a revival by Marius Petipa of Saint-Léon's "Fiametta", which had an original score supplied by Minkus. Petipa had revived this work especially for the visiting Italian ballerina Elena Cornalba, the first performance being given on . It is highly unlikely that Minkus participated in this revival due to the fact that Riccardo Drigo supplied nearly all of the supplemental music for Cornalba's appearances in already-existing ballets during her season with the Imperial Ballet. Petipa's "Kalkabrino"—a work that has been historically credited to Minkus—premiered on for the benefit performance of another visiting Italian, Carlotta Brianza, who in the previous year created the role of the Princess Aurora in the Petipa/Tchaikovsky "The Sleeping Beauty". Although the score for "Kalkabrino" was credited exclusively to Minkus it is not certain if the composer took part in its creation, which Russian historians have stated was a score set to a pastiche of airs taken from the many works Minkus composed for the Imperial Ballet during his long career in St. Petersburg. It is likely that this score may have been composed some years before for a work which never premiered.
Ivan Meštrović
With the creation of the first Yugoslavia, Meštrović's focus shifted to more mundane topics such as musical instruments or chapels. He particularly oriented himself towards religious items, mostly made of wood, under artistic influence from the Byzantine and Gothic architecture. The most renowned works from his early period are the "Crucifix" and "Madonna"; later he became inspired by Michelangelo Buonarroti and created a large number of stone reliefs and portraits. The Croatian dinar featured Meštrović's work "History of the Croats".
Mykola Leontovych
During the night of 22–23 January 1921, Mykola Leontovych was murdered by Chekist (Soviet state security) agent Afanasy Grishchenko. Leontovych was staying at the home of his parents, whom he was visiting for the Orthodox Feast of the Nativity (25 December of the Julian calendar, which, on the Gregorian calendar, adopted by the USSR only in 1918, falls in January). The undercover Chekist had also asked to stay the night at the house and shared a room with Mykola. At dawn he shot the composer (who died of blood loss a few hours later) after robbing his family.
Mykola Leontovych
Leontovych's friend, O. Buzhanskiy, recalls that the composer was "always full of humour; spoke so that everyone was laughing to tears, but he remained serious and stayed calm." Stetsenko also described Leontovych to be a "witty storyteller" and that his students at the Church Educator's School in Tulchyn were "in love with him" because of his storytelling.
Mykola Leontovych
His choral compositions feature rich harmony, vocal polyphony, and imitation. His earlier choral arrangements of folk songs were primarily strophic arrangements of the melody. As the composer gained more experience, the structure of his choral compositions and arrangements of folk songs became more frequently intertwined with text.
Mykola Leontovych
Leontovych's move to Tulchyn marked the beginning of a period of compositional maturity and major artistic achievements in the life of the composer. In Tulchyn, Leontovych taught vocal and instrumental music at the Tulchyn Eparchy Women's College to the daughters of village priests. There, he met composer Kyrylo Stetsenko who was a student of Mykola Lysenko and also specialised in choral music. Stetsenko lived in a nearby village at the time where he was working as a priest, and their acquaintance developed into a lasting friendship that influenced Leontovych's music. Stetsenko was the first critic of Leontovych's music, saying, "Leontovych is a famous music expert from Podolia. He recorded many folk songs... These songs are harmonised for mixed choir. These harmonisations have revealed the author to be a great expert of both choral singing and theoretical studies". Leontovych also transitioned to more renowned music during his choir performances, such as Russian composers Mikhail Glinka, Alexey Verstovsky, and Peter Tchaikovsky in addition to Ukrainian composers Mykola Lysenko, Kyrylo Stetsenko, and Petro Nishchynskyi.
Mykola Leontovych
Other members of Leontovych's family also grew up to have careers in music. His younger brother became a professional singer, his sister Mariya studied singing in Odesa, his sister Olena studied fortepiano at the Kyiv Conservatory, and his sister Victoriya also knew how to play several musical instruments.
Drowning Girl
Many sources describe "Whaam!" and "Drowning Girl" as Lichtenstein's most famous works. The "Daily Mail" listed it along with "Whaam!" and "Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But..." as one of his most famous at the time of its 2013 Lichtenstein Retrospective display at the Tate Modern. It is also regarded as one of his most influential works along with "Whaam!" and "Look Mickey". John Elderfield, Museum of Modern Art chief curator noted that the 2004 "MoMA in Berlin" exhibition held during the Museum's renovation was a "synoptic overview of 20th-century art". Highlights from the 212-piece exhibition according to various publications such as "The New York Times" and artnet were van Gogh's "Starry Night", Matisse's "Dance" and Lichtenstein's "Drowning Girl", all of which were touring outside the United States for the first time.
Mikhail Ivanovich Popov
During 1771–1772 he translated the poem "Gerusalemme Liberata" ("Jerusalem Delivered") by Torquato Tasso. Together with Mikhail Chulkov, he published a collection of Russian folk songs. His own collection of songs, "Russian Erota or the Collection of the Best and Newest Russian Songs" ("Российская Эрота, или Выбор наилучших новейших русских песен"), was published posthumously in 1791. Popov wished to popularize Slavic mythology, which had been largely forgotten in Russia in his time, as a more patriotic alternative to Greek and Roman mythology. To this end, he conducted some rather inaccurate research and wrote the essay, "Описание древнеславянского баснословия" ("The Description of Ancient Slavic Fable-writing", 1768). He included this essay in the collection of his poems, translations and plays called "Dosugi" ("Досуги" – "Lesure Hours"), published at the request of Empress Catherine II. This collection also contained his famous libretto to the opera "Anyuta".
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Mitropoulos was noted as a champion of modern music, such as that by the members of the Second Viennese School. He wrote a number of pieces for orchestra and solo works for piano, and also arranged some of Johann Sebastian Bach's organ works for orchestra. In addition he was very influential in encouraging Leonard Bernstein's interest in conducting performances of Mahler's symphonic works. He also premiered and recorded a piano concerto of Ernst Krenek as soloist (available on CD), and works by composers in the U.S. such as Roger Sessions, Elie Siegmeister and Peter Mennin. In 1952 he commissioned American composer Philip Bezanson to write a piano concerto, which he premiered the following year. His compositions include a piano sonata and the opera "Sœur Béatrice" (1918).
Gintaras Januševičius
Gintaras Januševičius sets priority on piano compositions by Rachmaninoff. He performed all of his Études-Tableaux, Morceaux de Fantaisie, Songs, most of the Preludes, Suites for two pianos Op. 5 and Op. 17, Trio élégiaque No. 1, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Piano Concertos No. 1 and No. 2, Piano Sonata No. 2, Cello Sonata and other works. Other of his most performed solo works include Pictures at an Exhibition of Mussorgsky, Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118 of Brahms, Dante Sonata of Liszt, "Waldstein" and "Moonlight" sonatas of Beethoven, complete Scherzi, Ballades, Waltzes and Barcarolle of Chopin, Minuet in G of Bach, Fur Elise of Beethoven, Rondo alla Turka of Mozart and Lowside Blues of Joanna MacGregor etc. Gintaras performed piano concertos of Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Gershwin, Shostakovich, Khachaturian, Ravel, Martinu etc. As an accomplished performer of the contemporary music he collaborates with composers like Jörg Widmann, Victoria Poleva, Ladislav Kupkovič, Nailia Galiamova, Derek Woods, and many others.
Mykhailo Urytskyi
In his works Mykhailo refers to the folk tales of the world (The Magic Lamp of Aladdin, The Frog Princess, The Goat-Dereza, The Magic Swan Geese, The Magic Violin), the legacy of the classics of children's literature (Cinderella by Charles Perrault, "Why the long nose at the elephant" by Rudyard Kipling, "The Little Humpbacked Horse" (Konyok-Gorbunok) by Pyotr Yershov), works by contemporary authors ("The Magic Lotus" by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, "The Tired Devil" by Serhii Kovalev). According to his own confession, his favourite author is Hans Christian Andersen, whose tales formed the basis for more than 10 performances he staged ("The Nightingale", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "Thumbelina", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Princess and the Pea").
Mieczysław Romanowski
He made his debut in 1854 with "Chorąży" published in "Nowinach". Many of his works were historical epics, but his poetry mirrored his political views. These works presented the patriotic struggle of the bourgeois and plebeian, instead of the contemporary Polish practice of focusing on the noble tradition. His most popular work was his poem "Dziewczę z Sącza" about the resistance of the inhabitants of Nowy Sacz against the Swedes in 1655. Other works in historical settings included the overthrow by the commoners of the bad prince Popiel in his play "Popiel i Piast". His works of patriotic poetry included "Hymn Polski", "Sen króla Jagiełły pod Tannebergiem", "Sztandary polskie w Kremlu", and "Uczta Geronowa".
Mykola Leontovych
Zynoviy Yaropud of the Kamianets-Podilskyi State Pedagogical University writes that "all of [Leontovych's] contemporaries called him a quiet, gentle person. He was not an active leader of the national-revolutionary movement, which revealed in the years of 1917–1921 a whole handful of prominent fighters for the Ukrainian republic," revealing that the composer was politically quiet, but not indifferent.
Mykola Leontovych
Mykola Leontovych grew up in a highly religious environment. He was a member of the Orthodox Church, descended from a line of village priests. He was also a graduate of the Podollia Theological Seminary in Kamianets-Podilskyi, which, for the most part, trained Orthodox Christian clergy.
Mykola Leontovych
Ukrainian writer and politician of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Pavlo Tychyna, was an admirer of Leontovych and wrote about the composer's death in prose. Poets Maksym Rylskyi and Mykola Bazhan also dedicated poetry to him.
Nadezhda Lappo-Danilevsky
The first publication of the author published in 1911 was the poem "When the darkness of night ... will fall." Next Lapo-Danilevskaya became known as a writer for his novels: in 1911 published "In the mist of life" in 1912 - "Wife Minister" (Special Edition - 1913 and called "empty shell" came reprint in Riga in 1927). In 1914 published "Princess Mara" and wrote the following "Russian master," is the most famous work of Lapo-Danilevsky. In the novel, on the background of the family drama of the main characters in the image of the illiterate rural priest guessed figure Grigori Rasputin. The novel "Tinsel" published in 1916, in 1917 - "long life" (reprint in Berlin in 1922). While still in Petrograd conceived series under the title "collapse", consisting of parts of the "collapse", "collapse", "On whom wine," and "Let there be light," a work was published in Berlin in 1921 - 1922. In 1922 she wrote a novel "Catherine Nikitishna" also published in Berlin. Catholic subjects begins clearly present in the works of the writer from the novel "Fortunately," written in Paris in 1925 and then continued in the story in 1926, "had a row", as it is devoted to Russian Catholics.
Immigration and the role of personal awareness of this phenomenon. Subject prerevolutionary Russia shows novels "The Manor" (Paris, 1928), and "Millions Burlakova" (first published in Riga in 1929, and the second, entitled "On the Volga" reprinted in Shanghai in 1937.
According to the accounting literature issued in Turgenev Library in Paris, in 1930 Lappo-Danilevsky was among 15 of the most widely read authors. However, critics raised on the ideals of public service, were sometimes unfairly harsh on her works.
Dmitry Lensky
Lensky debuted as an actor at the Maly Theatre in 1824, but found success as a writer of vaudeville acts. His best known work is "Lyov Gurych Sinichkin ili provintsiabmia debiutantka" ("Lev Gurych Sinichkin, or A Provincial Debutante").
Mykola Leontovych
The name of Leontovych is carried by musical groups, such as the Leontovych Bandurist Capella, and by educational institutions such as the Vinnytsia College of Arts and Culture. Streets in Kiev and other cities have been named after him. There is a memorial museum dedicated to him in the city of Tulchyn, and another was established in 1977 in the village of Markivka where he was buried.
Sergei Prokofiev
A graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatory, Prokofiev initially made his name as an iconoclastic composer-pianist, achieving notoriety with a series of ferociously dissonant and virtuosic works for his instrument, including his first two piano concertos. In 1915, Prokofiev made a decisive break from the standard composer-pianist category with his orchestral "Scythian Suite", compiled from music originally composed for a ballet commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes. Diaghilev commissioned three further ballets from Prokofiev—"Chout," "Le pas d'acier" and "The Prodigal Son"—which at the time of their original production all caused a sensation among both critics and colleagues. Prokofiev's greatest interest, however, was opera, and he composed several works in that genre, including "The Gambler" and "The Fiery Angel". Prokofiev's one operatic success during his lifetime was "The Love for Three Oranges," composed for the Chicago Opera and subsequently performed over the following decade in Europe and Russia.
Mykola Leontovych
Leontovych also commenced work on an opera ("Na rusalchyn velykden’" – On the Water Nymph's Easter) based on Ukrainian myths and the works of Borys Hrinchenko. By the end of 1920, he had finished the first of three acts. However, Leontovych was murdered before he could complete the opera. Attempts to complete and edit the opera were made by Ukrainian composer Mykhailo Verykivsky. Composer Myroslav Skoryk and poet Diodor Bobyr used the musical material of the unfinished opera to make a one-act operetta; this premiered in 1977 at the Kiev State Opera and Ballet Theatre, one hundred years after Leontovych's birth. The North American premiere took place in Toronto on 11 April 2003.
Myroslav Skoryk
Myroslav Skoryk is a composer, pianist and conductor. Many works by Skoryk have been performed by leading ensembles and soloists including Leontovych Quartet, Oleh Krysa, Volodymyr Vynnytsky, Oleg Chmyr, Mykola Suk, Victor Markiw, and Alexander Slobodyanik.
Mykola Storozhenko (painter)
In 2000, awarded the Gold Medal of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts for his works "The Trinity", "The Seraphim", "St. Mykola the Miracle Man" and the architectonic design of the central part of St. Mykola Prytyska Church.
Mykhailo Urytskyi
Mykhailo Urytskyi is a multiple winner of the theatrical award "Kyiv Pectoral" in the nominations "Best Performance for Children" (2012 – "Thumbelina", 2016 – "Why the long nose at the elephant"). He became the first and the only director for the present, who won in two main nominations of the Kyiv Pectoral: performance (the Kyiv Municipal Academic Puppet Theater) was recognized by the experts of the award as the best by the results of 2016 in the nomination "Best Performance of the Dramatic Theater", and Mikhail Urytskyi became the laureates of the nomination "Best director's work".
Mykola Leontovych
The increase in popularity of Leontovych's music was aided by the head of the Ukrainian National Republic, Symon Petliura, who created and sponsored two choirs that would promote the awareness of and the culture of Ukraine. One choir headed by Kyrylo Stetsenko toured across Ukraine, while the Ukrainian Republic Capella headed by Alexander Koshetz toured Europe and the Americas. Performances by the Ukrainian Republic Capella made Leontovych known throughout the western world. In France, Leontovych earned the nickname, "Ukrainian Bach". On 5 October 1921, the Capella performed "Shchedryk" in the Carnegie Hall in New York City. In 1936, ethnically Ukrainian Peter J. Wilhousky, who worked for Radio NBC, wrote his own lyrics for the song, which became known as the "Carol of the Bells".
Yannis Markopoulos
In London he composed the secular cantata Ilios o Protos (Sun the First) on the poetry of Odysseas Elytis (Nobel Prize 1979) and completed the musical ceremony Idou o Nymphios, a work the composer still wishes to keep unreleased with the exception of one part, the song "Zavara-Katra-Nemia", a vocal composition of Dionysian character, that was released in 1966 and became one of his best known pieces. Also in London he composed "Chroismoi" (Oracles) for symphony orchestra and the "Pyrrichioi Dances A, B, C" (the first three of the 24 Dances he completed in 2001) that were performed in 1968 by the London Concertante Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. During the same year he was commissioned to write the music for Shakespeare’s "The Tempest" performed by the National Theatre Company and directed by David Jones.
Mykola Sumtsov
Mykola Sumtsov’s numerous literary publications include a range of articles dedicated to writings of renowned Ukrainian poets and writers, including: Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Ivan Vyshensky, Lazar Baranovych, Ioanikii Galiatovsky, and Innokentii Gizel, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Panteleimon Kulish, Mykhailo Starytsky, Ivan Manzhura, Borys Hrinchenko, Oleksander Oles, and Oleksander Potebnia. His major literary work, "Khrestomatiya z Ukrainskoho Pysmentsva" [Anthology of Ukrainian literature] (1988).
Mykola Leontovych
After several conflicts with the school's administration, Leontovych got a new job as a teacher of church music and calligraphy at the Theological College in Tyvriv. Besides working with the college choir, Leontovych organised an amateur orchestra that often performed at college events. As he did earlier with choirs, Leontovych included arrangements of folk songs among the usual religious works sung in theological schools. These included arrangements by Mykola Lysenko, his own choral arrangements of folk songs, and entirely original works. One such work was based on a poem by Taras Shevchenko titled "Зоре моя вечірняя" ("Oh My Evening Star").
Mikhail Leontyev
Besides "Odnako", on Channel One Leontyev also made programs "Different Time" and "Puppet Theater with Leontyev", but they were closed by the channel. Leontyev also put together a project named "Bolshaya Igra" (The Great Game) with him in close-ups. It hit the air in October 2007, on the same channel . The short series of shows dealt with key historical episodes, chiefly mirroring the relation of the West and Russia, and taking the storyline to the present day to thus show the origins of the current issues concerning Russia and the western countries.
Magician's Lantern
At the time, Laterna magika also strove to address children, first with the play "Lost Fairy Tale" in 1975 and then, most significantly, with "Wonderful Circus," premiered in 1977, which has remained in the repertoire ever since and is the most frequently performed theatre piece in Central Europe. Moreover, "Wonderful Circus" ushered in Laterna magika's phase as a multi-theme theatre. At the celebration marking two decades of the production's staging, Josef Svoboda said: “"The whole intention was centred on a circus theme, with a panoramic moving screen bearing the cinematic image and also representing a circus big-top. This set design serves to render the entire story and principle of Laterna magika.”" The production’s creators included the founder of Czech Black Theatre, Jiří Srnec, the designers Zdenek Seydl, Eva and Jan Švankmajer, the choreographers František Pokorný, Vlastimil Jílek and Karel Vrtiška, the musician Oldřich F. Korte, and other artists. At the beginning of the 1970s, Laterna magika launched permanent collaboration with the cameraman Emil Sirotek. In 2013, the cinematographic material of "Wonderful Circus" was digitised; to date the production has been performed more than 6,200 times.
Otakar Ostrčil
Ostrčil wrote six operas: "Jan Zhořelecký" (written as a student under Fibich, 1898, unperformed), "Vlasty skon" (Vlasta's passing, premiered 1904, to a libretto previously considered by Smetana and Fibich), "Kunálovy oči" (Kunál's eyes, 1908), "Poupě" (The Bud, 1912), "Legenda z Erinu" (A Legend of Erin, 1921), and "Honzovo království" (Johnny's Kingdom, based on a short story by Leo Tolstoy, 1934). His most significant orchestral music includes "Symphony in A" (1906), "Impromptu" (1912), "Suite in c minor" (1914), "Symfonietta" (1922), "Léto" (Summer, tone poem, 1927), and "Křížova cesta" (The Way of the Cross, orchestral variations, 1929). He also composed various works for chamber and choral ensembles. As was the case with his main musical influence, Gustav Mahler, his rigorous conducting schedule rarely allowed free time for composition, with the exception of the summers when the theater was not in season.
Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky
Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky (Russian: Николай Овсянико-Куликовский, 1768–1846) was the purported author of a famous musical hoax Symphony No. 21 (Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky), perpetrated by composer and violinist Mikhail Goldstein.
Umar Dimayev
A small radio station opened in Urus-Martan in 1924, and young Umar started playing in local radio broadcasts. Five years later, in 1929, Umar gave a solo performance with the orchestra of the National Theater, to underline his growing popularity in Chechnya. He eventually became the soloist at Gronzy's Chechen-Ingush Dramatic Theatre.[2] He would then work alongside the renowned Russian composer Alexander Alexandrov, who would teach Umar music composition. Several of Umar's compositions during this early period of his career are still played in Chechnya, such as "The Chechen Waltz" of the stage production "The Red Citadel," and a song based on "Bela", a frame story of Mikhail Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time".[3]
Boris Lyatoshinsky
From 1922 to 1925 he was director of the Association of Modern Music in the name of Mykola Leontovych. These were, arguably, the happiest years of the composer's life, where he could express himself freely and was able to work creatively with fellow composers without any intervention from the authorities. He was working feverishly, writing music for the voice, violin and the piano. Lyatoshinsky composed Suites, Ballades and numerous songs (some of them even set to the lyrics of the Chinese ancient poets). His cycle of seven pieces for the piano Vidobragennia (Reflections, written in 1925) remains one of his most celebrated musical works. His music shows increasing decadent melancholic moods and pessimism.
Mykola Leontovych
This period in his career was among the most productive, as he created numerous choral arrangements. These included his famous "Shchedryk", as well as "Піють півні" ("The Roosters are Singing"), ' ("A Mother had One Daughter"), ' ("Little Dudka Player"), "" ("Oh, the Star has Risen"), amongst others. In 1914, Stetsenko convinced Leontovych to have his music performed by the student choir of the Kyiv University under the leadership of Alexander Koshetz. On 26 December 1916, the performance of his arrangement of "Shchedryk" brought Leontovych great success from the public in Kyiv and raised the interest of intellectuals.
Mikhail Glinka
He soon embarked on his second opera: "Ruslan and Lyudmila". The plot, based on the tale by Alexander Pushkin, was concocted in 15 minutes by Konstantin Bakhturin, a poet who was drunk at the time. Consequently, the opera is a dramatic muddle, yet the quality of Glinka's music is higher than in "A Life for the Tsar". He uses a descending whole tone scale in the famous overture. This is associated with the villainous dwarf Chernomor who has abducted Lyudmila, daughter of the Prince of Kiev. There is much Italianate coloratura, and Act 3 contains several routine ballet numbers, but his great achievement in this opera lies in his use of folk melody which becomes thoroughly infused into the musical argument. Much of the borrowed folk material is oriental in origin. When it was first performed on 9 December 1842, it met with a cool reception, although it subsequently gained popularity.
Mykola Leontovych
Mykola Leontovych was born on in the Monastyrok community, near the village of Selevyntsi, in the Podolia province of Ukraine (then a part of the Russian Empire). His father, grandfather, and great grandfather were village priests. His father, Dmytro Feofanovych Leontovych, was skilled at singing and playing cello, double bass, harmonium, violin, and guitar, in addition to directing a school choir. Leontovych received his first musical lessons from him. His mother, Mariya Yosypivna Leontovych, was also a singer.
Mikhail Lermontov
By now Lermontov had learnt to lead a double life. Still keeping his passions secret, he took a keen interest in Russian history and medieval epics, which would be reflected in "The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov" and "Borodino", as well as a series of popular ballads. During what he later referred to as "four wasted years" he finished "Demon", wrote "Boyarin Orsha", "The Tambov Treasurer's Wife" and "Masquerade", his best-known drama. Through Rayevsky he became acquainted with Andrey Krayevsky, then the editor of "Russky Invalid"'s literary supplement, in a couple of years' time to become the editor of the influential journal "Otechestvennye Zapiski".
Josef Václav Myslbek
Myslbek's most famous work is the Statue of Saint Wenceslas, which is located in the center of Wenceslas Square. It took him over 20 years to complete but has since become one of Prague’s most recognizable landmarks and a symbol of Czech statehood.
Adam Mickiewicz
He is known chiefly for the poetic drama "Dziady" ("Forefathers' Eve") and the national epic poem "Pan Tadeusz". His other influential works include "Konrad Wallenrod" and "Grażyna". All these served as inspiration for uprisings against the three imperial powers that had partitioned the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth out of existence.
Mykola Leontovych
Apart from Shchedryk, or the Carol of the Bells, Leontovych's music is currently performed mostly in Ukraine and few recordings are dedicated exclusively to him. The Ukrainian diaspora remember him and perform his works. For example, the Olexander Koshetz Choir based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, performs music of Ukrainian composers including Leontovych and have made a recording of his music.
Leonid Lavrovsky
Leonid Mikhailovich Lavrovsky (real name - Ivanov) (1905–1967) was a Russian ballet choreographer, most famous for choreographing the first full version of Sergei Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet".
Mykola Arkas
Arkas's artistic contributions include about 80 compositions for solo-singing, vocal ensembles and arrangements of folk songs. His opera "Kateryna" (1890) is the most significant work of Mykola Arkas, adapted as from Taras Shevchenko's poem of the same title. This work brought recognition to Mykola Arkas and became the first Ukrainian lyrical folk opera. Performances of "Kateryna" were a great success, first playing in Moscow by Mark Kropivnitskiy's troupe in 1899, and later in Minsk, Vilnius and Kiev.
Ignacy Ścibor Marchocki
The information about the Minkowce State did however spread around and he was the subject of discussion all around in former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Specially because the State prospered and showed exceptional benefits to the owner. Russian side was not fond of this at all. They seized the danger of what was happening in the Minkowce State since this could cause the way to revolution inside the Empire and so they had to act. There were already printed publications about the Ścibor Marchocki and his State, one of the most famous is the play of Juliusz Słowacki in 1832 called "King of Ladawa".
Mykola Leontovych
During the conquest of Kyiv on 31 August 1919, the Denikin Army persecuted the Ukrainian intelligentsia. Because of this, Leontovych returned to Tulchyn with his family. There, he started the city's first music school, since the college where he had worked was closed down by the Bolsheviks. He also began to work on his first major symphonic work, the opera "" "(On the water nymph's Great Day)".
Amilcare Ponchielli
The following opera, "I Lituani" ("The Lithuanians") of 1874, was also well received, being performed later at Saint Petersburg (as "Aldona" on 20 November 1884). His most well-known opera is "La Gioconda" (1876), which his librettist Arrigo Boito adapted from the same play by Victor Hugo that had been previously set by Saverio Mercadante as "Il giuramento" in 1837 and Carlos Gomes as "Fosca" in 1873. It was first produced in 1876 and revised several times. The version that has become popular today was first given in 1880.
Fyodor Lopukhov
Lopukhov was appointed the Artistic Director of the Leningrad State Theatre of Opera and Ballet (Kirov) in 1922 and quickly began to override the work done by Marius Petipa by creating plotless ballets – the first, and best known, being "Tanzsynfonia, Magnificence of the Universe" (1923). Unlike the Petipa classics, "Tanzsynfonia" did not tell any story, but symbolically suggested the origin of universal light and other profound spiritual concepts. The choreography was characterized by a mixture of academic ballet technique and acrobatic lifts that would later become synonymous with The Soviet style of ballet – his cast included George Balanchine who would later introduce similar processes and concepts to the American dance scene.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo is renowned primarily as a painter. The "Mona Lisa" is the most famous of his works and the most parodied portrait, and "The Last Supper" is the most reproduced religious painting of all time. His drawing of the "Vitruvian Man" is also regarded as a cultural icon, being reproduced on items as varied as the euro coin, textbooks, and T-shirts. His painting "Salvator Mundi" sold for $450.3 million at a Christie's auction in New York on 15 November 2017, the highest price ever paid for a work of art. Perhaps 15 of his paintings have survived. Nevertheless, these few works compose a contribution to later generations of artists rivalled only by that of his contemporary Michelangelo, together with his notebooks, which contain drawings, scientific diagrams, and his thoughts on the nature of painting.
Karol Szymanowski
Among Szymanowski's better known orchestral works are four symphonies (including No. 3, "Song of the Night" with choir and vocal soloists, and No. 4, "Symphonie Concertante", with piano concertante) and two violin concertos. His stage works include the ballets "Harnasie" and "Mandragora" and the operas "Hagith" and "Król Roger" ('King Roger'). He wrote much piano music, including the four "Études", Op. 4 (of which No. 3 was once his single most popular piece), many mazurkas and "Métopes". Other works include the "Three Myths" for violin and piano, "Nocturne and Tarantella", two string quartets, a sonata for violin and piano, a number of orchestral songs (some to texts by Hafiz and James Joyce) and his "Stabat Mater".
Music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Commissioned works include the "1812 Overture", known for its traditional Russian themes (such as the old Tsarist National Anthem) and its 16 cannon shots and chorus of church bells in the coda. Though Tchaikovsky did not value the piece highly, it has become perhaps his most widely known composition. "Marche Slave" (otherwise known as the "Slavonic March") is a patriotic piece commissioned for a Red Cross benefit concert to support Russian troops in the Balkans. Other commissioned works include a "Festival Overture on the Danish National Anthem", written to commemorate the wedding of Crown Prince Alexander (who would become Alexander III), and a "Festival Coronation March", ordered by the city of Moscow for the coronation of Alexander III.
Opera
In Russian Eastern Europe, several national operas began to emerge. Ukrainian opera was developed by Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (1813–1873) whose most famous work "Zaporozhets za Dunayem" (A Cossack Beyond the Danube) is regularly performed around the world. Other Ukrainian opera composers include Mykola Lysenko ("Taras Bulba" and "Natalka Poltavka"), Heorhiy Maiboroda, and Yuliy Meitus. At the turn of the century, a distinct national opera movement also began to emerge in Georgia under the leadership Zacharia Paliashvili, who fused local folk songs and stories with 19th-century Romantic classical themes.
The key figure of Hungarian national opera in the 19th century was Ferenc Erkel, whose works mostly dealt with historical themes. Among his most often performed operas are "Hunyadi László" and "Bánk bán". The most famous modern Hungarian opera is Béla Bartók's "Duke Bluebeard's Castle".
Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (Leontovych)
The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is the most commonly performed liturgy in the Eastern Church. The liturgy was developed into a distinct musical genre in the eastern tradition, as the mass was in western traditions. Some composers with well-known liturgies, besides Leontovych himself, include Mykola Dyletsky, Artem Vedel, Dmytro Bortnianskiy, Maksym Berezovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Peter Tchaikovsky, Pavel Chesnokov, among others.
Joonas Kokkonen
In the third style period Kokkonen wrote the music that made him internationally famous: the last two symphonies, the "...durch einen Spiegel" for twelve solo strings, the Requiem, and the opera "The Last Temptations" (1975) ("Viimeiset kiusaukset"), based on the life and death of the Finnish Revivalist preacher Paavo Ruotsalainen. The opera is punctuated with chorales which refer back to Johann Sebastian Bach, and which are also reminiscent of the African-American spirituals used for a similar purpose in Michael Tippett's oratorio "A Child of Our Time".
The opera was staged at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1983.
Mykola Leontovych
For most of his career, Leontovych kept his music to himself, only performing it during his own concerts. This was because of the composer's highly self-critical and shy personality. Leontovych's first critic was his friend and fellow priest and composer Kyrylo Stetsenko, who described him to be "a great expert of both choral singing and theoretical studies". He also convinced Leontovych to publish his music and have it performed by the Kiev University.
Diego de Brea
In 1999, his graduation piece, "The Birth of Light", won an award at the International Student Production Theatre Festival in Brno. He has authored a number of well-known performances in Slovenian repertory and non-institutional theatres. He tackles many genres ranging from youth pieces and puppet shows (even a puppet opera), to self-authored projects, classical and contemporary texts as well as musical vaudeville. In Italy, he directed a self-authored project Leonora, starring the opera singer Eleonora Jankovich and based on Wagner’s motifs.
Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (Leontovych)
The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (, tr. "Liturhiya Ivana Zlatoustoho") is the musical setting of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom by Mykola Leontovych. Consistent with Orthodox tradition, in which service is sung exclusively a cappella, the piece is set for unaccompanied choir and soloist. It was first performed in the Mykolaiv Cathedral at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra on May 22, 1919, with Leontovych himself conducting.
Leoš Janáček
Janáček always deeply admired Antonín Dvořák, to whom he dedicated some of his works. He rearranged part of Dvořák's Moravian Duets for mixed choir with original piano accompaniment. In the early years of the 20th century, Janáček became increasingly interested in the music of other European composers. His opera "Destiny" was a response to another significant and famous work in contemporary Bohemia – Louise, by the French composer Gustave Charpentier. The influence of Giacomo Puccini is apparent particularly in Janáček's later works, for example in his opera "Káťa Kabanová". Although he carefully observed developments in European music, his operas remained firmly connected with Czech and Slavic themes.
Mykola Leontovych
Mykola Leontovych's Shchedryk is his most well-known piece. In its English version as a Christmas carol, it is known as the holiday favourite "Carol of the Bells". It is famous for its four-note ostinato motif and has been arranged over 150 times since 2004. The original Ukrainian text of Shchedryk used hemiola, a shifting of accents within each measure between 6/8 and 3/4, which is lost in the English versions. The most popular English adaptation was composed in 1936 by Peter J Wilhousky who was influenced by the culture of his Eastern European parents and the traditional Christian story of carols ringing out at the birth of Jesus, although other English adaptations of the song were also made in 1947 by M. L. Holman, 1957, and 1972.
Marius Petipa
Marius Petipa is noted for his long career as "Premier maître de ballet" ("First Ballet Master") of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, making him Ballet Master and principal choreographer of the Imperial Ballet (precursor of the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet), a position he held from 1871 until 1903. Petipa created over fifty ballets, some of which have survived in versions either faithful to, inspired by, or reconstructed from the original. Among these works, he is most noted for "The Pharaoh's Daughter" (1862); "Don Quixote" (1869); "La Bayadère" (1877); "Le Talisman" (1889); "The Sleeping Beauty" (1890); "The Nutcracker" (likely choreographed by Lev Ivanov, perhaps with Petipa's counsel and instruction) (1892); "Le Réveil de Flore" (1894); "La Halte de cavalerie" (1896); "Raymonda" (1898); "Les Saisons" (1900), and "Les Millions d’Arlequin (a.k.a. Harlequinade)" (1900).
Mykola Leontovych
The successful debut of "Shchedryk" earnt Leontovych popularity among specialists and fans of choral music in Kiev. Leontovych's mentor-turned-coworker at the Kiev Conservatory, Boleslav Yavorsky, also positively evaluated his newly written works. During another concert, Leontovych's "Lehenda", set to a poem by Mykola Voronyi, gained great popularity.
Yannis Markopoulos
The works of this period include the Concerto-Rhapsody for Lyre and Symphony Orchestra, Mitroa for string orchestra, the "Healing Symphony", two oratorios, two song cycles, chamber music works, four quartets, two sonatas, and five pieces for violin and piano. In 1994 he composed one of his most important works "The Liturgy of Orpheus". There followed Re-Naissance: Crete between Venice and Constantinople, a musical journey in four units that strikes a balance between the opera form and that of the oratorio, and the opera "Erotokritos and Areti". In 1999 he composed Shapes in Motion, a piano concerto inspired by Pythagoras and dedicated to his daughter Eleni. Some of his latest works are "Evilia Topia" (Sunlit Landscapes), fantasy for solo flute; "O Nomos tis Thalporis", oratorio-musical spectacle for voices, choir, wind orchestra, ballet and video projection, dedicated to the environment; and Triptych for flute, strings and harp.
Franciszek Ksawery Dmochowski
Dmochowski was the author of celebratory poems, pamphlets, political leaflets; one of his major achievements was the first full translation of "The Iliad" into Polish. He also translated fragments of "The Odyssey", "The Aeneid", the works of Horace and Lucan and Milton’s "Paradise Lost". His most famous work was "Sztuka rymotwórcza" (The Art of Rhyming) (published in 1788), an adaptation of "L’art poétique" by Boileau, inspired by Horace, Diderot and Pope; referring to the dissertation by Golański entitled "O wymowie i poezji" (On Rhetoric and Poetry) Dmochowski formulated here the canon of Polish literary classicism. The work was later the subject of a polemic presented by Mickiewicz in the dissertation "O krytykach i recenzentach warszawskich" (On Warsaw Critics and Reviewers).
Fyodor Stravinsky
Stravinsky was also known as an active advocate of the music by Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko, often performing the role of Mykola in the opera "Natalka Poltavka". Fyodor also posed as a Ukrainian Cossack for Ilya Repin's famous painting "Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire".
Mykola Lysenko
Lysenko wrote a number of operatic works, including "Natalka Poltavka", "Utoplena" ("The Drowned Maiden", after Gogol's "May Night") and "Taras Bulba".
Glenn Dicterow
Dicterow's discography includes Aaron Copland's Violin Sonata, Largo, and Piano Trio; Charles Ives's Sonatas Nos. 2 and 4 and Piano Trio; and Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Piano Trio and Violin Sonata, all for EMI. He is also featured in the violin solos in Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben and Also sprach Zarathustra with Zubin Mehta for CBS. Other compositions committed to disc are works of Wieniawski with Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Lee Holdridge's Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and Holdridge conducting; Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Maxim Shostakovich on a Radiothon recording; and the Philharmonic's recording of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade with Yuri Temirkanov on the BMG label. Dicterow's most recent CD is a solo recital for Cala Records entitled New York Legends, featuring John Corigliano's Sonata for Violin and Piano, Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Much Ado About Nothing, the premiere recording of Leonard Bernstein's Sonata for Violin and Piano, and Bohuslav Martinu's Three Madrigals for violin and viola, in collaboration with violist Karen Dreyfus and pianist Gerald Robbins. He currently appears on Navona Records.
Tibor Serly
He greatly admired and became a young apprentice of Béla Bartók. 
For the most part his efforts were highly praised, both by Bartók and by colleagues. Bartók's Viola Concerto took two or three years of Serly's efforts to compile from sketches into a performable piece. It is now one of the most widely performed viola pieces. One of Serly's most famous original works is Rhapsody for Viola and Orchestra. His work bringing Bartók's work to fruition has paid off in the sense that his works are often paired with those of his better known teacher, on recordings and in live performance.
Mykola Leontovych
Several facts point to a political motive behind the assassination. Leontovych's participation in the independence movement, such as commissioning Ukrainian Republic Capella, aimed at promoting Ukraine as an independent state, earned him many enemies. His older daughter Halyna later recalled her father saying, shortly before his death, that he had documents to leave the country for Romania, and that he had these documents with him among his sheet music during a concert. However, after returning from tea following the concert, Leontovych noticed that someone had gone through his papers. His plans to leave the country, along with the fact that he was killed by a Soviet agent, also indicate political reasons for his death.
Dimitry of Rostov
He is the author of several written works, out of which the most famous is The Lives of Saints ("Chet'i-Minei").
Alexander Ilyinsky
His major work, the 4-act opera "The Fountain of Bakhchisaray", to a libretto based on Alexander Pushkin's poem, was produced in Moscow in 1911. He also wrote a symphony, a Concert Overture, a string quartet, three orchestral suites, a set of orchestral "Croatian Dances", a symphonic movement called "Psyche", two cantatas for female chorus and orchestra ("Strekoza" (The Dragonfly) and "Rusalka"), incidental music to Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" and "Philoctetes", and to Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's "Tsar Fiodor Ioannovich", piano pieces, church music, songs, etc. His name is perhaps most familiar to music students for his "Lullaby" from the third orchestral suite (sometimes described as a ballet), "Noure and Anitra", Op. 13, which excerpt has appeared in many different arrangements.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Two musical works from this period stand out. With the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour nearing completion in Moscow in 1880, the 25th anniversary of the coronation of Alexander II in 1881, and the 1882 Moscow Arts and Industry Exhibition in the planning stage, Nikolai Rubinstein suggested that Tchaikovsky compose a grand commemorative piece. Tchaikovsky agreed and finished it within six weeks. He wrote to Nadezhda von Meck that this piece, the "1812 Overture", would be "very loud and noisy, but I wrote it with no warm feeling of love, and therefore there will probably be no artistic merits in it". He also warned conductor Eduard Nápravník that "I shan't be at all surprised and offended if you find that it is in a style unsuitable for symphony concerts". Nevertheless, the overture became, for many, "the piece by Tchaikovsky they know best"., particularly well-known for the use of cannon in the scores.