Dremliuha Mykola Vasylovych (born July 2 (15), 1917[1], Buturlynivka - December 18, 1998) was a Ukrainian composer, teacher, musician and public figure, author of the first concerto for bandura, and member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine.
Mykola was born on July 2 (15), 1917 in the village of Buturlynivka (now a city in the Voronezh region of Russia) into a teacher's family (his father taught mathematics, his mother taught literature). Mykola became fluent in French and German, read the original works of Schiller, Goethe, Novalis, and Wieland, and took piano lessons from the pianist H. Beklemishev. However, at the insistence of his father, he entered the Faculty of Chemical Engineering of the Kyiv Industrial Institute (now NTUU "KPI"), graduating in 1939. While studying at the KPI, Mykola Dremliuha continued to study music - he performed at concerts, performing virtuoso preludes by Sergei Rachmaninoff, and created his own compositions.
In 1946, he graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory with a degree in composition from L. Revutskyi and the Faculty of History and Theory. As a student in 1944, he was admitted to the Union of Composers of Ukraine. In 1949, he completed his postgraduate studies. From 1946 he was a lecturer at the Faculty of History and Theory and Composition of the Kyiv Conservatory, from 1965 he was an associate professor, from 1978 he was a professor.
He died on December 18, 1998. He was buried in Kyiv at the Baikove Cemetery (plot 49).
Works
cantatas:
"On the Renewed Land" (lyrics by I. Franko, V. Bychko, V. Sosiura, 1963), "On the Collective Farm Fields" (lyrics by O. Novytskyi, 1966),
oratorio "Lenin" (1970);
for symphony orchestra
a cycle of symphonic poems "Motherland"
Suite "In Poland" (1962),
"Bulgarian Poem (1966),
"Lyrical Poem" (1966),
"Poronino" (1961),
6 symphonies (1968, 1971, 1978, 1983, 1986, 1991);
poem "Song of Peace" (1977);
concertos for instruments and orchestra:
1 for piano (1965),
2 for trumpet (1976, 1977),
2 for violin (1984, 1991),
for bandura (1985),
for oboe (1992),
for solo instruments
for piano - the cycle "Winter", "Spring Suite", "Piano Album", preludes, etc;
for cello - Poem,
for violin - Sonata,
for guitar - Sonata,
for bandura - From a Sonata, 3 Suites. Duma, etc;
vocal cycles
to the words of F. Petrarch, W. Shakespeare, A. Mickiewicz, Omar Khayyam, V. Sosiura, M. Rylsky, Lesia Ukrainka;
romances (more than 80) on the words of Michelangelo, P. Ronsard, P. Eliard, J. R. Jimenez, A. Pushkin, I. Bunin, I. Franko, T. Masenko, L. Vysheslavsky, Dm. Pavlychko, A. Demydenko and others;
concert arrangements of folk songs for voice and piano (ca. 100),
choirs - the cycle "Seasons" (lyrics by D. Lutsenko and O. Marunych);
songs - "My Hometown" (lyrics by O. Yushchenko), "On the Dnipro" (lyrics by D. Lutsenko), "Nezabudky" (lyrics by L. Reva), "Beyond the River Only Cherries" (lyrics by B. Oliynyk), etc,
songs for children;
music for movies.
"Vanity" (1956),
"Under the Golden Eagle" (1957).
Musicology works
Ukrainian piano music (pre-October period), K., 1958;
Thoughts on the arrangement of folk songs // Art, 1959, № 2 and others.
Honors
Honored Worker of Arts of the Ukrainian SSR (1972);
People's Artist of Ukraine (1993);
Winner of the Taras Shevchenko State Prize of Ukraine (1998; for Symphony No. 3, dedicated to the memory of the victims of the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine)[3].
Commemorations
On July 15, 2017, Ukraine celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mykola Dremliuha (1917-1998), composer, public figure, People's Artist of Ukraine.
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