Anton Kocipiński (1816, Andrychów - 1866) was a Ukrainian and Polish composer, ethnographer, and educator.
He was born in 1816 in Andrykhiv near Krakow (Poland) in the family of musician Hyacinth Kocipiński, and studied in Lviv. As a child, he had a good voice and sang 1st disco in the Lviv Archbishop's Choir. He studied music with his father, an organist at the Lviv Latin Cathedral. He received his general education and upbringing at a school in Lviv, after which in 1845 he served as a Kapellmeister in the Austrian military orchestra.
In 1845, he moved to Bukovyna, and in 1846 to Kamianets-Podilskyi, where he and his brother taught music (theory and piano). Among his students was Vladyslav Zaremba. During these years, he ran a local music store. He collected Podillia song folklore, arranged the best melodies for voice and piano and for choir, and actively promoted Ukrainian songs in concerts. In the last third of the 1940s, A. Kotsypinsky worked in Kyiv, where he continued his musical activities, but in May 1849, for keeping banned poems by Yuri Slovak in his home, he was expelled from the city by the provincial authorities as "unreliable." Bibikov was also expelled from Ukraine for promoting Ukrainian music. From 1849 to 1855, he lived and worked in Vienna, while controlling his music trade business in Lviv, Chisinau, and Kamianets-Podilskyi. In 1855, he returned to Kyiv and opened a new music store on Khreshchatyk on the basis of these music stores.
His works
А. Kotsypinsky was proficient in playing several instruments, including the harmonium, and performed successfully at numerous concerts. His arrangement of the song "Hanseatic League" (words and music by D. Bonkovsky) became especially popular at that time. A significant event was the publication of his collection of 100 songs, Songs, Thoughts and Noises of the Russian People in Podolia, Ukraine and Little Russia (1862). Among them are the most famous songs: "Oh, on the Mountain and the Reapers Reap," "Oh, Moon, Moon," "The Winds Are Blowing" (based on the words of Ivan Kotliarevsky), and others. Every Thursday, songs and other musical performances were held at musical evenings organized by A. Kotsypinsky in his shop, where local music lovers and touring artists gathered. These works were arranged for piano by Viktor Zentarsky. He showed great interest in preserving the pearls of folk art. He also published ethnographic studies, including "Fair in Ukraine" (1856). Among his works are polonaises and mazurkas for the harmonium ("Cossack-Polka", "Ukrainian Mazurka").
He died on May 26 (or 28), 1866 in Kyiv. His books of songs were confiscated after his death.
Works.
1661 - 62 his books were published: Songs, thoughts, and noises of the Russian people in Podolia, Ukraine, and Little Russia. Collections of his songs were recorded in Ukrainian and Polish (in Latin script). The published collections contain 100 thoughts, noises, and songs.
The first ten are
"Oh, I'm unhappy that I have to act" by Shumka from under Smotrych
"One mountain is high and the other is low" A song from Ukraine
"There's a beetle on the road, a black beetle on the road" A song from Bila Tserkva
"The sandpiper loves the seagull, and goes to the seagull" A song from near Constantinople
"The forest is noisy, the forest is humming" A song from near Novomoskovsk
"A girl is sad, she broke her arms" A song from near Makhnivka
"When you love, love very much, and if you don't love, don't joke" A song from Podillia
"When you love, love very much, and if you don't love, don't joke" A song from Bila Tserkva
"Oh, under a grove, a grove, a green grove. A song from under" Kamianets-Podilskyi
"My mother scolds me for not loving a Cossack Dumka" from Romaniv
