Gregory Alchevsky

Gregory Alchevsky

Grigory Alchevski (Russian: Григорий Алексеевич Алчевский; 1866 in Kharkov, Russian Empire – 1920 in Moscow) was a Russian Imperial composer.

Grigory was the son of a mining engineer, industrialist and banker Aleksey Alchevsky, and teacher Khrystyna Zhuravlyova. Grigory also had two sіblings named Ivan and Khrystina. became a renowned opera singer and was a respected poet. Grigory Alchevsky himself, worked as a teacher of voice and piano, composer and singer. He was a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory of Music. His works include: several textbooks for vocalists, a symphony called "Alyosha Popovich" (after the character of a Russian epic poem), arrangements of Russian and Ukrainian Folk songs, and a series of solo works to the words of Apollon Maykov, Mikhail Lermontov, Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik, Yakov Polonsky, Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesia Ukrainka etc.

References[]

• Dytyniak Maria Ukrainian Composers – A Bio-bibliographic Guide – Research report No. 14, 1896, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Canada.

Sources[]

• Hryhorii Alchevsky
• Oleksii Alchevsky
• Khrystyna Alchevska