Ukrainian lyricist.
Biography.
He lost his sight at the age of twenty-one.
He learned to play the kobza and lyre from Tereshko Parkhomenko, and also learned to play the violin.
He traveled around Chernihiv and Poltava regions.
He performed both independently and in an ensemble with his sons Kostiantyn (violin) and Mykola (bass).
He represented the traditional art of playing the wheeled lyre.
Oleksandr Yusov recorded his virtuoso lyre playing.
In 2002, the Avram Hreben House Museum was opened in the village of Dmytrivka.
His identity
Avram Hreben was considered a capable and original performer of the Cossack epic, whose repertoire was recorded in the 50s of the XX century. An authentic sample from Avram Hreben includes the "Slave Cry". This is one of the oldest dumas about how captive Cossacks, chained to a Turkish galley, exhausted by hunger and the hellish sun, whipped by the Turkish janissaries, ask the Lord for deliverance from captivity, which separated "brother from sister, husband from wife, and father and mother from their little children." The lyre player's performance of dumas is specific, monotonous, mostly colloquial, with a small range of melodies, as in this case, with singing at the end of the phrases. The lyre adds a specific timbral color to the sound of the duma.
Repertoire
Ukrainian folk dumas
About Marusya Bohuslavka
About a Cossack bandura player
Slave lament
About the Azov brothers
About a widow
historical songs
About Morozenko
Maxim the Cossack Zalizniak
Hey, chickpeas, guys
About Karmalyuk
About Konashevych
Songs of protest against the exploiters
About the truth
About the Sotsky
About a government official
other
instrumental and dance pieces
Folk dances - metelytsi, hopaky, polkas.
