Prominent Ukrainian composer and choir conductor, teacher.
Biography
Born in a Ukrainian family in the Cossack town of Berezna in Chernihiv Oblast, Anton Veryevka is a local historian, folklorist, and musician among his brothers and sisters. In 1916, he graduated from the Chernihiv Theological Seminary. From 1918 to 1921, he studied at the Mykola Lysenko Kyiv Music and Dramatic Institute in the class of composition with Boleslav Yavorsky, conducting with Oleksandr Orlov. In 1933, he graduated from the institute as an external student.
Since 1919, he has been working as an organizer and leader of amateur performances, taught choral conducting in musical and educational institutions of Kyiv.
From 1923 to 1927, he worked at the Music and Drama Institute, from 1931 — at the Kyiv Conservatory (now the National Music Academy of Ukraine named after Pyotr Tchaikovsky). Since 1947, he has been a professor at the conservatory. Among the graduates of H. Verevka are the later famous conductors Mykhailo Krechko and Lev Venediktov.
From 1941 to 1945, he was a researcher at the Institute of Folklore of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, and was under forced evacuation in the Asian part of the USSR.
In 1943, he organized the Ukrainian State People's Choir, in 1943-1964 he was its artistic director and chief conductor. In 1964, the choir was given the name of Hryhoriy Verevka.
The creativity of H. Verevka has a huge contribution to the development of domestic choral music. He is a direct follower of Leontovych and Stetsenko, who in their time devoted a significant part of their creativity to arrangements of folk songs. The choir he led became a model for subsequent collectives that arose in the regional centers of Ukraine.
1948-1952 — Chairman of the Union of Composers of the Ukrainian SSR (now the National Union of Composers of Ukraine).
Tombstone of Grigory Verevka at the Baikovo cemetery
Buried at Baikovo Cemetery (plot No. 7; tombstone by sculptor Elius Friedman).
Creative activity
Verovka as a composer worked mainly in the field of choral mass songs, he was engaged in arrangements of folk songs. Verevka's works are widely popular, many of which have become truly popular. He wrote songs dedicated to his people, his native land, in particular: "Oh, how green it has become", "Oh, what are you, earth, you have become young" and others, as well as humorous songs, among them the Ukrainian folk song "And noise, and hum" . He also paid tribute to the ideological discourse by creating propaganda songs, in particular "Oath", songs glorifying hard labor at the construction sites of the Gulag of the USSR: "Girls from Donbass", "Song about the Volga-Don", "Miner".
Among the works of the large form is the cantata "We are the forgers of our destiny" to the words of the poet Pavlo Tychyna.
Verovka also created arrangements of the songs of the Russian communist rebels: "Forward, people, go", "Carmagnola" and others, as well as arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs: "I make noise and hum", "Oh, why you, earth, you have become young".
The People's Choir improved its skills year by year. In each of the countries where performances were held, the choir sang Ukrainian songs.
Honors and awards
Memorial plaque to Hryhoriy Veriovtsi in the premises of the Kyiv Conservatory.
1948 — Veryovka was awarded the Stalin Prize for his long concert activity.
1960 — became a People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.
1967 — in the composer's homeland in the village of In March, a monument was erected - a Plexiglas bust on a quadrangular pedestal (height 2.4 m), resting on a reinforced concrete stylobate. Sculptor O. O. Melnychuk, architect V. M. Onashchenko. Installed on June 18 in the square between the street. Soviet and St. Fat people
1968 — State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR named after Taras Shevchenko (together with Anatoly Avdievsky).
Awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of the Badge of Honor, medals.
Commemoration
Streets in Chernihiv and other cities are named in honor of Hryhoriy Verevka.
In 2011, a street in Kyiv was named in honor of Hryhoriy Verevka.
Creative contribution
Literary works
Music studio named after Leontovych at the Music Society /U Music. — 1924. — N 7-9, Nos. 10-12.
First Kyiv Choral Olympiad // Ibid. — 1924. — No. 10-12.
About V school II Ibid. — 1925. — No. 9-10.
State Music Prof. school named after Leontovych//Ibid. — 1927. — No. 1.
State Music Prof. school named after Leontovycha P. Music for the masses. — 1929. — No. 2.
Musical creativity during the Great Patriotic War (Observations 1941—1942 pp.) II Art, folklore, ethnography: Sciences, notes of the Academy of Sciences. — K., 1947. — T. 1-2.
Protect the riches of folk songs // Music. — 1995. — No. 6.
Musical works
cantata for soloists, mixed choir and orchestra of folk instruments
"We are the blacksmiths of our destiny" (published by P. Tychyny, 1961);
songs and choirs (more than 16) —
a cappella - "Let the oaks rustle", mixed choir (song by P. Tychyny, 1923), "There on the mountain behind the Dnieper", mixed choir (song by P. Tychyny, 1924), "The Call", mixed choir (syl. D. Zagula, 1927), "Don't Forget the Young Days", mixed choir (syl. I. Franka, 1941), "Vryadzhala Milyo", mixed chorus (syl. M. Grudnytska, 1942), "Song about Khreshchatyk ", women's choir (sl. P. Tychyny, 1944); from the piano - "Oh, how it became green" (syl. V. Bychka, 1936), "Oh, why did you, earth, become young", mixed choir (syl. born, 1936); "Oath", mixed choir (syl. M. Bazhan, 1942), "About Mykola Lukychov", chorus (syl. P. TTychyny, 1946), "Girls from Donbass", choir (syl. S. Voskrekasenko, 1947), "Our Gogol is a big heart", mixed choir (syl. P. Tychyny, 1952); "Chorus of Friendship", choir (syl. T. Masenka, 1954), "Shakhtarochka", women's choir (syl. S. Voskrekasenko. 1955); "Naviky slaven" (In memory of T. Shevchenko), mixed choir (song of V. Lagoda, 1960), etc.;
with piano -
"Oh, how green it has become" (sl. V. Bychka, 1936), "Oh, why you, earth, have become young", mixed choir (sl. born, 1936); "Oath", mixed choir (syl. M. Bazhan, 1942), "About Mykola Lukychov", chorus (syl. P. Tychyny, 1946), "Girls from Donbass", chorus (syl. S. Voskrekasenko, 1947), "Our Gogol is a big heart", mixed choir (syl. P. Tychyny, 1952); "Round of friendship", choir (sl. T. Masenko, 1954), "Miner's man", women. choir (sl. S. Voskrekasenko. 1955); "Naviky slaven" (In memory of T. Shevchenko), mixed choir (song of V. Lagoda, 1960), etc.;
romances —
"I looked clearly", "On one side of the willow", "The path to the garden sings", "Green Sunday" (syllabary by P. Tychyny, 1919-20), "Someone still remembers me" (syllabary O. Olesya, 1919-20), "On the farm" (syllabary by P. Tychyny, 1922-23), "Whirled in the golden wind" (syllabary M. Rylskyi, 1925), "I know" (syllabary E. Pluzhnyk. 1925) , "On the Red in the Spring" (syl. A. Akopyan, trans. P. Tychyny, 1925), "Bloom with laughter and songs" (syl. V. Sosyury, 1931), "Oh, they don't drink beer, honey" ( s. T. Shevchenko, 1934), "In front of Aivazovsky's painting" (s. O. Tumanyan, trans. P. Tychyna, 1939), "The Seagull" (s. M. Stelmakh, 1943), "Longing for Ukraine" (s. T. Masenko, 1943), "Mother's Word" (slang. S. Kudasha, trans. P. Tychyna, 1943), "Somewhere at the bottom of my heart" (slang. P. Tychyny, 1962);
instrumental works —
for a small symphony orchestra - suite "Five folk songs" (1929), for a symphony orchestra - "Street Interlude" (1930), for violin and piano - Sonata (1932), "Lyric Song" (1933); for 2 violins and piano - arr. Ukrainian folk songs (1934); for orchestra of folk instruments - arr. "Pleskach" (1935);
arrangement of folk songs —
"Forward, people, go" for mixed choir (1921); "Carmagnola" for piano chorus, "Forward with courage" for piano chorus (1922);
arrangement of Ukrainian folk songs for various choirs —
approx. 50, among them - "Beyond the green meadow" (1934), "And noise and hum", "Oh, the grave in the field" (1935), "Are those boots", "The wind howls on the oak" (1938-39) , "Thought on the Liberation of Ukraine" on p. V. Perepelyuka (1944), "My girl, Pereyaslavko", "Oh, there is a lot of rye on the mountain", "I was walking in the garden", "Did you hear, my dear brother", "The wide town broke", "Oh, there is flax on the mountain" (1945-46), "The Cossack Walked Secretly", "The Moon in the Sky", "The Young Fisherman", "Oh, the Chumak Walked" (1951), "The Boat Floats", "You, Girl, You, My Heart", "Seven threshing day" (1956), "Have you heard, young girl" (1960), as well as 2 Polish and 2 Czech melodies.
