Ukrainian public and political figure, composer, teacher and journalist.
Biography
He was born on September 19, 1841, in the town of Seniawa, now Perevorsky Poviat, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland (then the Peremyshl District, Kingdom of Galicia and Volhynia, Austrian Empire) near Przemyśl in the family of Father Klyment Vakhnyanyn and his wife Karolina Fayt, the daughter of a Czech officer.
3 In 1852 he studied at the Przemyśl Gymnasium. In 1859-1863 he studied theology at the Lviv Theological Seminary, and was engaged in literary and musical activities.
Anatol Vakhnyanyn. Artist. Kornylo Ustianovych, 1887.
In 1865, he organized the first Shevchenko concert in western Ukraine.
For some time he taught Ukrainian at a gymnasium in Przemysl, then moved to Vienna. While studying at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, in 1867 he organized the Sich student society and became its first chairman.
After completing his university studies (1868), he returned to Lviv and continued his teaching career at the Academic Gymnasium.
Co-organizer and first chairman of the Prosvita Society (December 8, 1868-1869).
He worked closely with the commission for writing Ukrainian textbooks for public and secondary schools.
1867-1870 - editor of Pravda, Letters from Enlightenment (1878-1879), co-editor of Dilo, organizer and leader of the Torban (1870) and Boyan (1891) musical and choral societies.
On October 24, 1885, together with Yulian Romanchuk, he organized the People's Council, a political organization that continued the ideas of the Main Ruthenian Council.
In 1890, together with other leaders of the People's Council, he initiated the policy of the "new era," which was to help normalize Ukrainian-Polish relations in Galicia.
In 1894-1900, he was twice elected to the Reichsrat (Austrian parliament) from district 16 (Zhovkva - Velyki Mosty - Kulykiv - Sokal - Belz - Rava - Uhniv - Nemyrov). In 1895-1901 he was an ambassador to the Galician Sejm from the Sokal district.
In 1903, he founded the M. Lysenko Higher Music Institute in Lviv (later the Lviv Conservatory) and became its first director.
Vakhnyanyn family gravedigger on field 72 of Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv
He was the founder and head of the Union of Singing and Music Societies.
The portrait of Anatoliy Vakhnyanyn was painted by artist Kornylo Ustianovych.
Anatol Vakhnyanyn died on February 11, 1908 at the age of 66 in Lviv, buried in the family tomb on the 72nd field of Lychakiv Cemetery.
Family.
Anatoliy Vakhnyanyn's nephew, Bohdan, also later became a famous composer, author of a number of choral works based on Shevchenko's words.
On his mother's side, he came from the Weit family. His grandfather, Captain Ignazius Veit (1764-1831), born in northern Bohemia in Hruhlich (now Kraliki), served in a regiment that marched through Silesia and western Galicia to Jarosław and Przemyśl. He died in 1831 in Przemyśl during a cholera epidemic. Among other relatives of Anatol Vakhnianin in this line, the grandson of his mother's brother Wilhelm was the Prime Minister of Poland, Kazimierz Switalski[4].
Creative works
Author of the opera "Kupalo" (1870-1892, staged in 1929 in Kharkiv), music for Taras Shevchenko's dramas "Nazar Stodolya" and Fedir Zarevych's "Bondarivna", choirs, songs, as well as literary works - "Three Poplars", "Stories and Humoresques" (1902), "Memories from Life" (1908), school textbooks.
He is the author of the music to the famous song "Shaliyte, Shaliyte, mad executioners!" (1889).
Tribute.
In 1991, a street in Lviv was named in Vakhnyanyn's honor. Several streets in other cities of Ukraine are also named in his honor.
