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Kazbyryuk Andriy Fedorovych

1849-1885

Andriy Fedorovych Kazbyriuk (* 19 (7) October 1849 (in other sources 1845), Caucasus - † April 8 (27 March) 1885, Kyiv) was a Russian and Ukrainian conductor, composer, and music teacher.
In 1875, he received his musical education at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, studying music theory under Professor M. Zaremba, composition and instrumentation under M. Rimsky-Korsakov, and counterpoint under Y. Johansen.

At the music school of the Kyiv branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society, he taught music theory and led a choral class.

Since 1877 he conducted symphony concerts of the Kyiv branch of the Russian Musical Society.

He composed romances to works by Lermontov and Tyutchev.

He composed works for orchestra, piano, choir and voice, which were not published, except for several romances and a troparion to Saints Cyril and Methodius for choir accompanied by piano.

He performed in partnership with Volodymyr Pukhalskyi.

His publications include

Elementary theory manual "A popular presentation of the basic principles of musical theory, adapted for self-study", 1884,
145 Solfege for One Voice, published in 1887,
a manual on harmony.
Among his students was the music critic and composer P. P. Weimarn.

Vasyl Petrushevsky organized his and Leonid Malashkin's music books.

He was buried in Kyiv.

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