Ukrainian composer, vocal teacher, pianist. Son of Oleksiy Kyrylovych Alchevsky and Khrystyna Danylivna Alchevska, brother of Ivan and Khrystyna Alchevsky.
Biography.
He was born in 1866 in Kharkiv. He graduated from Kharkiv University and the Moscow Conservatory, class of Russian composer Sergei Taneev. In Kharkiv, he organized a balalaika orchestra.
Since 1907, he worked as a music reviewer for the Kharkiv newspaper Yuzhnyi Krai. Later he specialized in vocal pedagogy, theory and practice of vocal art. Among his works are the symphonic painting Alyosha Popovych (1907), arrangements of Ukrainian and Russian folk songs, solos to the words of Taras Shevchenko ("Why do I feel hard, why am I bored"), Ivan Franko ("Boundless Field"), Lesya Ukrainka ("Don't look at the moon in the spring", "I stood and listened to the spring"), and Khrystia Alchevska ("Lily of the Valley", "Hey, to the battle"). He is also the author of the textbooks "Vocal Technique in Everyday Exercises" ("Vocal Technique in Everyday Exercises") and "Tablets of Breathing for Singers and Their Application to the Development of Fundamental Qualities of Voice" ("Tablets of Breathing for Singers and Their Application to the Development of Basic Qualities of Voice") (1907, 1908). These textbooks are popular among specialists to this day.
He died in 1920 in Moscow.
