Author
Filts Bohdana
a Ph.D. in Art Studies, a composer (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Maksym Rylskyi Amongst the Figures of the Ukrainian Musical Culture
Abstract
It is difficult to overestimate the importance of Maksym Rylskyi’s creation for the Ukrainian musical culture. Music was an integral part of his artistic consciousness and creative life for him. Maksym Tadeyovych’s deep and original poetry, permeated by musical images, constantly inspired artists of many generations to create musical compositions of various genres.
He was a librettist, a translator of the world opera classics, as well as of masterpieces of choir and chamber vocal music, a literary editor of musical works of Ukrainian and foreign composers (he made a literary edition of Mykola Lysenko’s all operas and Semen Hulak-Artemovskyi’s opera A Zaporozhian Cossack Beyond the Danube, a 20-volume edition of M. Lysenko’s works, Kyrylo Stetsenko’s cantatas Let’s Unite! and To Kobzar, etc.). Maksym Rilskyi was an author of numerous poems-dedications to the outstanding musicians of the world, memoirs about musical figures and performers. He collaborated with many famous Ukrainian artists, about whom he wrote interesting and thorough articles with analysing their creations and estimating their contributions to the general art treasury of Ukraine. Therefore, the questions of the interrelation of poetry and music in the works of M. Rylskyi, as well as the poet’s participation in the development of the Ukrainian musical culture, long time attracts the attention of many art critics.
Keywords
musical culture, Maksym Rylskyi, interrelation of poetry and music.
References
- RYLSKYI, Maksym. Lysenko (Fragments of Memories). In: Maksym RYLSKYI. CollectedWorks: in Twenty Volumes. Kyiv: Scientific Thought, 1986, vol.15: Art Critical Studies, pp. 273–277 [in Ukrainian].
- BOROVYK, Mykola, Tamara BULAT, Tamara SCHEFFER. Rylskyi and Music. Kyiv, 1969, 280 pp. [in Ukrainian].