Фортепіанна музика Ярослава Верещагіна Публікуємо статтю піаніста та музикознавця Северина Гундяка, який вже кілька років досліджує творчість маловідомого українського композитора ХХ століття Ярослава Верещагіна. Минулого року Северин звернувся до команди Львівського органного залу, яка вже понад чотири роки впроваджує стратегію Ukrainian Live.  І вже восени піаніст зіграв два концерти в Органному...  Read More

Mykola Diletskyi is a composer with a question markLittle is known about his life, which is not surprising, because it was so long ago... He was born around 1630 and died around 1690. There is only a mention of his origin in the censuses of that time: "inhabitant of the city of Kyiv". But his life was not limited to Ukraine alone. Surprisingly, even at that time people could study or work abroad a...  Read More

Noticing how the student of the music school, Mykhailo Skorulskyi, constantly distracted himself from studying general subjects by writing music, the history teacher asked him: — Mykhailo, have you read "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas? — Not yet, but I will definitely read it! — There is a character in it who reminds me of you - Aramis. You, Skorulskyi, dream about music during history l...  Read More

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Heorhyi Maiboroda, like his brother Platon, came from a cossack family. The Mayboroda brothers were born in the Pelechivshchyna in the Poltava region. According to local legend, its founder was the cossack Peleh. The great-grandfather of the brothers Fedir Maiboroda was chumak and was well remembered in the village not only for his travels, but also for his masterful singing. Musical talent was in...  Read More

Kostiantyn Dankevych, like many of us today, didn't immediately find his way in his professional life. Several factors influenced his decision: his youth coincided with the difficult times at the beginning of the 20th century, the premature death of his father, the need to acquire a profession and work, and so on. After finishing gymnasium, Kostyantyn enrolled in an electrical engineering school i...  Read More

– Born on December 17th in Podillya, Ukraine – it's the best gift of fate one could possibly receive. I say this from my own experience :) Composer Alla Zahaykevych also became a lucky recipient of such fortune. After leaving her hometown of Khmelnytskyi for studies in the capital, her expeditions to Polissya villages and studies at the Kyiv Conservatory sparked her interest in Ukrainian folk musi...  Read More

The world is rediscovering her, even though she was already the first. She was the first female composer who actually influenced the course of the history of Ukrainian classical music. She globally changed the understanding of Ukrainian music in global context. Stephania lived a long, rich life. She traveled a lot. She studied in Vienna, Prague, and Berlin, so in her work, she liked to combine man...  Read More

40: Is it a lot or little?40 UAH today is not enough.40 likes under the post are also not enoughAnd 40 years? There are two ways to look at it: to live 40 years is not enough; to wait 40 years is a lot.That's how long the symphony by Volodymyr Pavenskyi waited for its first public performance, which happened in January 2023 on the stage of the Lviv Organ Hall by musicians of the Academic Symphony ...  Read More

In Ukraine, there is an ancient tradition of weaving a periwinkle (in ukr. barvinok) wreath for the bride at her wedding (it is an evergreen climbing plant that blooms with pale blue flowers in spring). Such a periwinkle wreath was a talisman, protecting against the "evil eye," envy, disease, and other evil forces. The fate of one Ukrainian family living in the Ternopil region, the Barvinskyi fami...  Read More

"Everyone nowadays has to do what they are capable of, to fulfill their life mission" - says Ukrainian composer Oleksandr Shchetynskyi in his interview in April 2022 for the Lviv Organ Hall.  Oleksandr Shchetynskyi has been fulfilling his life mission - to write new, unique, lively music - since childhood and every day, until today.The avant-garde and postmodernist Shchetynskyi was born and educat...  Read More

The name of Vasyl Bezkorovainyi in Ukraine during the Soviet period could not be mentioned because of his emigration. During the Second World War, together with his family, the composer went to Vienna, and from 1949 he lived in the United States. Vasyl was born in Ternopil, where he began to study music. He particularly liked to play the violin and piano. The young composer participated in the gym...  Read More