Semen Petrovych Tyshkevych-Azvazhynskyi (1894, Borysiv - 14 October 1938, Bykivnia) was a composer and musician. He was a student of composition of H. Liubomyrskyi. Rector of the Mykola Lysenko Kyiv Music and Drama Institute in 1932-1934.
1932-1934 - Rector of the Mykola Lysenko State Music and Drama Institute in Kyiv. Later, he was the director of the Central Station of Amateur Art (until 16 July 1938).
Despite following the party line, he was repressed.
He was convicted by the Kyiv Regional Troika on 7 October 1938.
He was shot on 14 October 1938.
On 18 March 1958, he was posthumously rehabilitated.
Works.
Musical poem "The Decembrists" (First Prize of the Republican Competition for the best work dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Decembrists' uprising, 1925) - during the arrests, the manuscript disappeared without a trace
"Oriental Dance".
Chamber and piano compositions
Romances (over 30) to the lyrics of Taras Shevchenko, Alexander Pushkin, S. Nadson, A. Akhmatova, and Mykhailo Rylsky
"Lord, my longing is not free" (Ukrainian translation by M. Rylsky)
