Yaroslav Yosypovych Lopatynskyi (*19 August 1871, Dolyna, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast - †12 January 1936, Holohirky, Lviv oblast) was a Ukrainian composer, doctor, and participant in the liberation struggle.
Yaroslav Lopatynskyi was born into a priestly family. He graduated from elementary school and gymnasium in Lviv. At the same time, he took piano lessons from L. Sayevych.
In 1900, he graduated from the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna with the title of Doctor of Medicine. He took private piano lessons from Samuel Maikapar. From 1900 he worked as a doctor in Pomoryany, and from 1905 - as a district doctor in Holohory. In 1905, together with Y. Yaroslavenko, he initiated the creation of the Torban publishing house at the Union of Music Lovers in Lviv. In the period 1898-1914, he wrote many works. These are piano miniatures (waltzes, mazurkas, gallops), romances to the words of Taras Shevchenko, L. Ukrainka, P. Hrabovsky, Ivan Franko, P. Karmansky, O. Oles, V. Pachovsky, and A. Pushkin, and the opera Aeneas on a Journey.
In 1913 he became a member of the Ukrainian Medical Society. In 1915-1918 he lived and worked in Kyiv. From 1918, he served in the Ukrainian Galician Army and taught at the School of Red Yeomanry in Kyiv. He was arrested and imprisoned. He worked as a doctor at the Red Cross clinic.
In the fall of 1923, after returning to Galicia, J. Lopatinsky opened a medical practice in Holohory, Zolochiv district. He settled in the village of Holohory. In Holohory he was active in public education. He created a village choir, a reading room, a drama group, and maintained creative ties with the Zolochiv Boyan Music Society. In 1935, the community of Zolochiv organized a concert of Lopatinsky's works, which was attended by the author himself.
Much of the artist's music is lost. He was the founder of the cooperative "Torban Music Publishers".
He died in January 1936 and was buried in Holohirky.
His works include
Opera.
"Aeneas on a Journey" (libretto by M. Kurtseba based on the poem by I. Kotliarevsky, 1911);
"Oksana (1914, lost, unfinished);
"The Tale of the Rocks" (libretto, 1926);
"The Dream of the Sagittarius (unfinished);
children's opera "The Star of Happiness" (20s, unfinished).
Instrumental works
works for brass band, including the march for brass band "Echo from Ukraine";
"Trifles" for violin and piano;
6 collections of "Ukrainian Dances" for piano (1905-1913);
waltzes.
Other works
operetta "A Glass of Water" (1911);
music to the comedy "Mother-in-law" (1898);
the chorus "Arise, Ukraine!" (lyrics by S. Yarychevsky, 1905);
solos (about 100) - "Ancient Spring" (lyrics by Lesya Ukrainka, 1887), "Dream" (lyrics by O. Makonei, 1904), "Clouds" (lyrics by M. Voronoi, 1906), "My Heart Burns" (lyrics by Lesya Ukrainka), "How to Make a Good Life" (lyrics by M. Voronoi). Lesya Ukrainka), "As You Hear in the Night" (lyrics by Ivan Franko, 1910), "I Loved You" (lyrics by Alexander Pushkin, in Ukrainian), "In the Forest by the Ford" (lyrics by Taras Shevchenko).
Honors.
Honorary member of the Vienna Authors' Union.
