Serhiy Fedorovych Telezhynskyi (2 April 1876 - ?) was a Ukrainian choral conductor, composer, dean of the conducting and choral faculty of the Mykola Lysenko Music and Drama Institute. Member of the Mykola Leontovych Music Society. Pseudonyms: 1) S. T.; 2) Y.
Graduated from the Theological Seminary in Kyiv. During his studies, he was a member of the Mykola Lysenko Choir. He was friends with Kyrylo Stetsenko.
1914 - graduated from the Kyiv Commercial Institute.
From 1918, he served in state institutions. He was a singing teacher. He led the choir at the Cyril Pedagogical School (Shevchenkove village).
In 1918, he was the head of the Lukianivska Prosvita in Kyiv.
From 1919, he was a "teacher" of conducting courses at the Mykola Lysenko Music and Drama Institute.
In Korsun, Shevchenkivskyi district, Kyiv province, where the Taras Shevchenko Higher Pedagogical Courses with a three-year term of study had been operating since 1923, he taught singing and economic geography of Ukraine.
There is information that S. Telezhynskyi lived and worked in Zinovievsk (now Kropyvnytskyi), where he organised a musical branch of the M. Leontovych Society.
Later he became the dean of the conducting faculty of the Mykola Lysenko Institute. He taught the basics of conducting, methods of working with the choir, and choral literature.
He was a sympathiser of Oleksandr Koshytsia. He contributed to the attempts to return the famous conductor to Ukraine in 1928,[8] but due to the hesitation and indecision of the rector of the Mykola Lysenko Institute Semen Romaniuk, who was afraid to appoint Koshyts to a position at the institute, these attempts failed.
Works
Among his works are the choruses "On the Death of Taras Shevchenko", "The Moon Has Risen", and the arrangement of the Duma about Morozenko (1914). The poetic lines of O. Konysky dedicated to Taras Shevchenko later became a song-duma sung to the bandura by kobzar Teryentiy Parkhomenko, from whom S. Telezhynsky recorded and arranged the music for mixed choir
