Ukrainian Soviet composer, musicologist, teacher and public figure. Stepfather of the heroine of the German-Soviet war Hula Koroleva.
Biography.
He was born on October 11 (23), 1893 in the village of Letychivtsi (now Monastyryshche district, Cherkasy region). In 1917, he graduated from the Kyiv Theological Academy, and in 1920 from the Kyiv Conservatory (composition class of Boleslav Yavorsky, harmony and instrumentation class of Reinhold Glier).
In 1918-1924, he taught at the Mykola Lysenko Kyiv Music and Drama Institute and was a singing teacher at the Taras Shevchenko First Ukrainian Gymnasium. In 1921-1928, he was one of the organizers and leaders of the Mykola Leontovych Music Society. He was the editor-in-chief of the magazines "Music" (1923-1927) and "Music to the Masses" (1928-1931).
Meeting of Kharkiv and Kyiv artists. Kyiv, 1923. From left to right, front row: Maksym Rylskyi, Yurii Mezhenko, Mykola Khvylovyi, Mike Johansen, Hryhorii Mykhailov, Mykhailo Verikivskyi, and Pylyp Kozytskyi. Second row: Natalia Romanovych, Mykhailo Mohyliansky, Vasyl Ellan-Blakytnyi, Serhiy Pylypenko, Pavlo Tychyna, Pavlo Filipovych, and Antin Khutoryan. In the third row are: Dmytro Zahul, Mykola Zerov, Mykhailo Dry-Khmara, Hryhoriy Kosynka, Volodymyr Sosiura, Todos Osmachka, Volodymyr Koryak, Mykhailo Ivchenko, and Borys Yakubsky.
In 1925-1935, he was the chairman of the Higher Music Committee of the People's Commissariat of Education of the Ukrainian SSR in Kharkiv, and lectured on the history of Ukrainian music at the Music and Drama Institute. From 1935 he was a lecturer at the Kyiv Conservatory, and from 1945 he was its professor.
In 1938-1941, he was the artistic director of the Ukrainian State Philharmonic (during the German-Soviet war, he was evacuated to Ufa). He has been a member of the CPSU since 1940.
In 1952-1956, he was the chairman of the board of the Union of Composers of Ukraine.
Tomb of Pylyp Kozytskyi
He lived in Kyiv in a house at 20/8 Zhovtneva Revolutsii Street, in a three-room apartment No. 10 on the first floor. He died on April 27, 1960 in Kyiv. He was buried at the Baikove Cemetery (plot No. 8a; tombstone - plexiglass, granite; sculptor O. Kovalev; installed in 1963).
Creativity
Kozytskyi's music is based on folk songs and is connected with the traditions of Ukrainian classical music.
Works
Opera:
"Unknown Soldiers" (1934), the second edition - "Jean Girardin" (1937),
"For the Motherland (1943).
Cantatas:
"In Memory of the Bolshevik" (1951) - for a cappella choir,
"Hello, Spring" (1952) - for children's choir.
Works for symphony orchestra:
Suite "Cossack Holota" (1925),
the poem "The Partisan's Daughter" (1938).
Choirs:
"Ten School Choirs" (1921),
"Eight Preludes of Songs (1924),
diptych "Strange Fleet" (1925),
"Eight Ukrainian Folk Novels" (1936).
Instrumental ensembles.
Works for piano.
Romances, songs:
"Song about Yakir" with lyrics by Volodymyr Sosiura.
Arrangements of folk songs.
Music for the play "Berezolya":
"The King is Playing" by Victor Hugo (1927),
"The Bridgehead" by Myroslav Irchan (1932), etc.
Music for films:
"Stozhary" (1939),
"The Kubans" (1939).
Based on the words of Taras Shevchenko, he composed the song "Oh, a romance blooms on the mountain", unaccompanied children's choirs "All my trust is in you", "Learn, my brothers", "In the garden parsnips", "Oh, I am alone, alone" (became a folk song), and the mermaid chorus from "The Causal One" (all published in 1922).
He worked on the symphony "Taras Shevchenko" but did not complete it.
Musicological works
"Ukrainian Folk Song" (1936).
"Taras Shevchenko and Musical Culture (1952).
"Singing and Music in the Kyiv Academy for 300 Years of Its Existence" (1971).
Scientific research and articles on the works of Mykola Leontovych, Kyrylo Stetsenko, Borys Liatoshynskyi, Bedřich Smetana and others.
Awards.
Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (since 1943). He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and medals.
Honoring the memory
memorial plaque on Instytutska Street
memorial plaque in the conservatory
In 1961, a marble memorial plaque was installed in the room of the Department of Music History (room 41) of the Kyiv Conservatory, where Pylyp Kozytskyi worked as the head of the department from 1943 to 1960. In the same year, a street was named in his honor in the Zaliznychnyi district of Kyiv.
On March 5, 1962, in Kyiv, on the facade of the house number 20/8 on October Revolution Street (now Instytutska), where the composer lived from 1943 to 1960, a second memorial plaque was installed (bronze, granite; bas-relief; sculptor O. Kovalev, architect P. Zakharchenko).
