Lev Isaakovych Chernetskyi (21 August 1875, Ananiev, Kherson province - 1945) was a Ukrainian composer of Jewish origin.
Military Kapellmeister of the 8th Don Cossack Regiment (1906) and the 15th Rifle Regiment of His Majesty King Nicholas I of Chornohora (1910), conductor of the Orchestra of the Military Invalids.
On gramophone records and in music publications, he was usually indicated as "L. Chernetskyi (son)". His father, Isaac Chernetsky (12 April 1852, Ananiev, Kherson province - 15 January 1908, Chisinau, Bessarabia province), was the composer of the marches "Blue Far" and "Ancient March". His cousin was the composer Semen Chernetskyi, under whose direction the Brass Band of the Ministry of War recorded some of Levko Chernetskyi's songs, including the waltz "Hungarian" and the waltz "Blue Far" by Sack Chernetskyi (1944). His mother was Leia (Yelizaveta) Chernetska, his brothers were Nuhym (2 August 1873, Chisinau) and Chaim (12 November 1877, Chisinau), and his younger sister was Anna (8 February 1882).
From the age of twelve, he grew up in Chisinau, where his father served as a chaplain of the 24th Lubny Dragoon (later Hussars) Regiment from 1887 and played the viola in the quartet of the Chisinau branch of the Russian Musical Society (1899). In 1903, the "chief of the musician's team" Sak Chernetskyi became one of the organisers of the self-defence during the Jewish pogrom in Chisinau.
He graduated from the Music School of the Society of Fine Arts at the Imperial Russian Music Society in Odesa. Baritone singer. From 1903 - Kapellmeister of the 57th Modlin Infantry Regiment in Odesa.
In 1906-1910 - Kapellmeister of the 8th Don Cossack General Ilovaysk Regiment, from 1910 - 15th Rifle Regiment of His Majesty King Nicholas I of Montenegro. He was a collegiate registrar. He lived in Odesa at 14 Velyka Arnautska Street.
The orchestra of the 15th Rifle Regiment of His Majesty the King of Montenegro stationed in Odesa under the direction of Lev Chernetskyi recorded several gramophone records (1912).
In the 1910s, the melody of Chernetskyi's march "Days of Our Life" served as the basis for the popular song "A big crocodile was walking down the street...".
His last place of service as a bandmaster in 1918 was the 14th Field Marshal Hurko Rifle Regiment. He emigrated with his family to France.
A number of recordings were made in the 1930s by the Orchestre Militaire des Invalides Russes Mutilés de Guerre (Orchestra of the Invalids for the Military) conducted by Lev Chernetsky, which he also organised in 1930 in Paris.
From 1926 he taught a brass ensemble class at the Russian Conservatory in Paris.
Family.
Uncle - Leib Chernetskyi (1 February 1866 - ?), from 1 September 1892 - Kapellmeister of the 16th Rifle Regiment of His Majesty Emperor Alexander III (in 1893-1894, stationed in Livadia), in 1905, as part of the regiment, he took part in the Battle of Mukden, led the orchestra and worked at dressing stations (he was awarded a silver medal on the St. George's Ribbon with the inscription "For Bravery").
His uncle is the chaplain of the Selenginsky 41st Infantry Regiment and composer Abram Reiderman, author of the waltzes Autumn Dreams, White Roses, At Dawn, Kiss Me to Death, Dreams of Life, Good Luck, Opening of the Ball, Without Love, the march for brass band Varyag, and the medley Gay-Da-Troika.
Cousins - music teachers and concert pianists Esfir Chernetska (married to Heshelin; ? - 1922) and Vira Chernetska (1884 - ?, married to Meyerovych).
A cousin, Oleksandr Chernetskyi (1895 - no earlier than 1947), was a printer and publisher, participated in the publication of emigrant periodicals, including the newspapers Vecherne vremia, Vozrozhdenie, Dni, Poshteli novosti, magazines Zveno, Sovremennye zapiski; an employee of the editorial office of the newspaper Russki Novyny.
Works
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March "Days of Our Life", 1910
"Down with sadness, down with longing" (march). St. Petersburg: Octave Music Publishing House, 1904.
"Days of Our Life" (march). Odesa: Progressive News, 1910. Dedicated to Nikolai Vasilyevich Ptashnikov.
"Young Men" (march). Odesa: Eduard Ostrovsky's printing house, 1909. Dedicated to "the Bulgarian brothers in memory of their stay in Odesa".
"Hungarian" (waltz)
"The Last Felling"
"Funny Nights in Shantan" (based on the motifs of new favourite chansonettes)
"Odesa Exhibition" (march). Odesa: A. Josefer's music shop, 1910. Dedicated to the merchant of the 1st guild Samuel Aronovich Kalfe (?-1919, executed).
"Iron Rifleman" (march)
"The Keys of Happiness" (waltz)
"Love is Everything" (waltz)
"Mazurka" (ballroom dance)
"For the Fatherland" (march). With dedication to Ivan Vasilievich Ptashnikov. Odessa: Editions of E. Ostrovsky's sheet music shop.
"Skating Ring" (March). Simferopol: Music Publishers of J. I. Bogorad.
"Banh-Tanh" (Jewish cake-walk).
"Rifleman", polka.
"A Night in the North" (a potpourri of the newest romances and chansonettes). Odessa: Publishing house of Anton Gustavson's sheet music shop at Deribasovskaya Street, 20. With dedication to Aleksandr Siraganovich Asvadurov.
"King of the Sea", march (op. 56).
"Potechny", march;
"In Love Only Happiness", waltz (op. 2)
"In Solitude" (Un solitude), waltz (op. 3)
"Cupid's Tales", waltz (op. 4)
"Greetings to Yalta, waltz (Greetings to Yevpatoria, op. 5)
"Dreaming" (Un songe), waltz (op. 6)
"Flirt", waltz (op. 15)
"Have pity on me", waltz (op. 33)
"Dreams of Happiness", waltz (Dream of Happiness, op. 44)
"Spring Dream", waltz (op. 54)
"Last Hope", waltz (op. 55)
"Longing", waltz
"Wilted Roses" (Lubovlenie Tsigansky Romance, op. 57)
