Mykola Ivanovych Radziyevsky (born November 27, 1884, Yerky, Zvenyhorod district, Kyiv province - died May 27, 1965, Khmelnytsky) was a Ukrainian composer and conductor, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR in 1930.
He was born on November 27, 1884 in the family of a priest in Yurchyn. He was orphaned at the age of seven.
Education.
Thanks to the care of his grandfather, he studied for 8 years at the Third Kyiv Gymnasium, and for his last year of school he was enrolled in the Zlatopil Men's Gymnasium, where he passed the matriculation exam in 1905 and received a certificate of maturity No. 843.
In 1909, he graduated from the Mathematics Department of St. Volodymyr's University in Kyiv.
In his childhood, the future composer showed his talent for music, in his student years he played many folk instruments well and began to compose music, and after 1909 he continued his studies at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of composition and theory with the famous music teacher S. Taneev (his students were also S. Rachmaninoff, O. Scriabin, R. Glier and others).
Musical activity
In 1918, in the midst of the struggle for the formation of the Ukrainian state, he worked as a conductor at the Ukrainian Theater of Sevastopol.
In the 1920s, he lived in Kyiv, where he organized the experimental orchestra of folk instruments "MIK", and soon accepted an invitation to the Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theater, where he worked until 1934. Here, under Radzievsky's direction, the operas Duma Chornomorskaya by Borys Yanovsky (1928), Taras Bulba by Mykola Lysenko (1929), and the ballet Pan Kanyovsky by Mykhailo Verikivsky (1931) were performed. In addition, he was elected a member of the board of the Mykola Leontovych Music Society, on the basis of which the Association of Contemporary Music began its activities, whose members, in addition to him, were Borys Liatoshynskyi (chairman), Ihor Belza, Mykhailo Verikivskyi, Matviy Hozenpud, Fedir Nadenenko, Lev Revutskyi, and Markian Frolov.
In 1934, he was fired from the Kyiv theater, arguing that several more promising conductors had been hired from the Kharkiv Opera when the capital was moved from Kharkiv to Kyiv, and was sent to the Mariupol Opera House (far from the capital), and in 1935 he was transferred to Vinnytsia. In 1939, the Vinnytsia Opera House was closed, and the famous Ukrainian conductor was offered to "voluntarily" leave Ukraine and move to Novosibirsk to work in the newly created opera house. However, a year later, in May 1941, he returned to Kyiv and got a job as a conductor of the opera studio at the conservatory. With the advent of World War II and the occupation of the Ukrainian capital, the German authorities sought him out and offered him to resume his work at the theater, not forgetting to assign a person to oversee the repertoire. The chauvinistic tendencies of this Aryan "instructor" and his constant demands that the repertoire consist exclusively of works by German composers one day make him angry, and he throws the German out of the rehearsal. As a result, he falls out of favor with the occupiers, and he and his family have to secretly flee Kyiv to a distant village to hide until the liberation from the occupation, after which he is unfairly branded a "German servant," and therefore has to forget about working in Kyiv and other major theaters.
The disgraced composer and conductor was accepted in Proskuriv. In 1946, he was given a small apartment and the position of conductor of the Petrovsky Theater. And here he stayed forever. He worked in the theater and in 1947 became the artistic director of the regional philharmonic.
Creative activity
Author of choral works ("And You Are the All-Seeing Eye" and others), solo songs and works for piano (etudes, preludes).
Overture "Sahaidachny"
Overture "Fantastic Poem"
Trio for violin, viola and cello
Songs and romances based on the poems of Ukrainian poets H. Skovoroda, T. Shevchenko, I. Franko, M. Rylsky, and V. Sosiura.
The last years of his life
In 1953, he retired, but for another ten years he led the police choir, which, because of its artistic and technical level, became the best in the city and region, and in the republic, took one of the first places. In addition, during these years, he constantly chaired the jury of many regional festivals, participated in seminars of Podillia composers, and worked closely with the regional house of folk art.
He died on May 27, 1965.
