Oleksandr Yosypovych Nyzhankivskyi (b. 1862, Galicia - d. ?) was a Ukrainian opera and concert singer (bass). Brother of the composer and conductor Ostap Nyzhankivskyi.
Biography.
He studied singing in the 1880s in Lviv. From 1886 until at least 1909 he performed on the Lviv opera stage. He also performed at concerts. In 1899, he took part in concerts of the Boyan Society. He taught at the Lviv Conservatory.
At the beginning of the XX century (probably in early 1910) he moved to Vienna, where he occasionally performed at concerts.
Recordings.
The first recordings, 20 disc items, were made by the Lviv branch of Deutsche Grammophon in 1904. Subsequently, he recorded on gramophone records in Vienna in 1910-1911 (Pathé). Among the recordings:
arias from operas by Semen Hulak-Artemovsky, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Charles Gounod, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, and Stanislav Moniuszko;
romances by Mykola Lysenko ("The Lights Are Burning"), Father Ostap Nyzhankivskyi ("Where is the Flower"), Yaroslav Yaroslavenko ("Wild Rose");
Ukrainian folk songs ("A Cossack Went Across the Danube", "Oh, on the mountain and the reapers are reaping", "Oh, moon, moon", "Black brows, brown eyes", etc.)
