Mykola Romanovych Boichenko (1894, Izmail, now Odesa region, according to other sources - 1896, Kyiv - 1946 or 1947, Bucharest, according to other sources - Hungary) - Ukrainian composer, musicologist, conductor. Doctor of Musicology. Brother of the singer Olha Hrozovska.
Biography.
Mykola Romanovych Boychenko was born in 1894 in Izmail (now Odesa region, Ukraine) in the family of Roman Boychenko, a priest of St. Nicholas Church in Izmail, according to other sources - in 1896 in Kyiv.
In 1919, he graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory. During his studies, he worked as an accompanist for the student choir of Kyiv University (the choir director was Oleksandr Koshyts). He improved his professional skills in Paris.
In 1919-1922, he worked at the Kyiv Conservatory, teaching harmony.
In 1922-1923 and 1929-1930, he worked in Chisinau. There he organised and headed the Union of Lyric Artists.
In 1924-1929, he was a lecturer in music theory and composition at the Conservatory of St Cecilia in Rome, in 1930-1932 - in Paris, and in 1932-1938 - in Chernivtsi. He headed the Bukovynian Kobzar Choral Society and led its choir, was the director and teacher of the Higher Music School.
From 1938 he lived in Bucharest.
Mykola Boychenko died in 1946 or 1947 in Bucharest, according to other sources - in Hungary.
Creative work
Among the musical theoretical works of Boychenko is "Nuovi principi della composizione musicale" ("New Principles of Musical Composition"), which was published in 1928 in Rome (in Italian).
He compiled a collection of 150 Bukovyna folk songs from the village of Chumkiv (1935).
Author of plays, choruses, songs based on the words of Taras Shevchenko, Yuriy Fedkovych, I. Mazepa, and arrangements of folk songs.
He is the author of the dramatic opera in one act "Before the Morning", a staging of the folk rite "Wedding".
For the symphony orchestra, he wrote the poem "Ukraine" and the overture "Forest Song".
He is the author of a string quartet, a piano trio, and the Ukrainian Rhapsody for piano.
