Pavlo K. Lutsenko (1873, Krasnyi Kut village, now Antratsytskyi district, Luhansk region - 1934, Kharkiv) was a Ukrainian pianist, teacher, musician and public figure.
Biographical information
In 1897, he graduated from Kharkiv University (Faculty of Law).
He began his musical education privately, then graduated from the Kharkiv Music School, piano class of A. Schulz-Euler, and continued his studies in Berlin with E. Yedlichka.
In 1900, he graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatoire as an external student, passing the exams for the title of free artist.
From 1900 to 1914 he taught in Germany, including at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, where his students included Alfred La Liberte, Nadezhda Landesman, Joseph Margulies and Stanislav Lipsky. He gave concerts in Berlin and other cities of Germany, including performances of piano concertos by Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky and Arensky with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 1914-1915, he taught at the Tiflis Music School.
From 1916 he taught at the Kharkiv School of Music and Theatre.
In 1917-1934, he was a professor and head of the piano department at the Kharkiv Conservatory (in 1918-1922, he was the rector). In Kharkiv, he had many students, many of whom became famous performing pianists: V. Petrov, L. Sahalov, V. Topilin, M. Fomenko and others. In the 1920s, he gave concerts in Kharkiv, performing Beethoven's sonatas, preludes and fugues by J.S. Bach, Schumann's Symphonic Etudes, and others. Pavlo Lutsenko became the founder of the Kharkiv piano school.
