Soviet Ukrainian composer and teacher. Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1951). Cousin of singer Ksenia Derzhynska (1889–1951) and musicologist Oleksandr Ossovsky (1871–1957). A distant relative of the writer Maria Vilinsky.
Biography
He comes from a family of hereditary nobles, his father is Mykola Oleksandrovych, his mother is born. Cherkunova Valentyna Nikiforivna, comes from the Zaliznyak family. He began to seriously engage in music on his own during the years of study at the Ananiyevsk gymnasium. In 1906–1912 he studied at the Faculty of Law of Novorossiysk University in Odesa, in 1912–1919 at the Odesa Conservatory in the composition class of Witold Malyshevskyi, a student of M.A. Rimsky-Korsakov and the first rector of the Odesa Conservatory he founded (1913). There are memories that Malyshevskiy, leaving Odesa forever for fear of reprisals, tried to take his beloved student Mykola Vilinsky with his family into exile.
Since 1920, Vilinsky taught at the Odessa Conservatory, and was promoted to the rank of professor (1926). He headed the Odesa regional organization of the Union of Composers of Ukraine. In the 1930s, Emil and Lisa Gilelsa, David Oistrakh, Yakiv Zak and a number of other prominent musicians studied with him in the special harmony class. During the war, he was evacuated to Tashkent, where he worked as a professor at the Tashkent Conservatory, and since 1944 he has been the head of the Department of Music Theory at the Kyiv Conservatory.
Art
Mykola Vilinsky is the author of symphonic suites, cantatas, vocal and choral arrangements of Ukrainian, Russian and Moldovan folk songs, romances, chamber and instrumental works, as well as a number of theoretical works and articles. Mykola Vilinskyi is considered the founder of the ballad genre in Ukrainian piano music.
In the 1920s, the composer created "A ballad in the form of a variation on a Ukrainian folk theme" op. 5, the plays "Dreams" and "Reflections" op. 7 (1925), "Elegy Suite" op.8 (1914–1925), "Children's Album" - eight pieces in four hands op. 11 (1925).
The composer's youthful works include miniatures without an opus: "Sad Song", "Mourning March", "Two Mazurkas", "Elegy", "Waltz", "March" (1905–1909), "Preludes No. 1 and No. 2" (1909, re-edited in 1949 and 1925). "Prelude for the left hand", "Fugue" in B-flat minor, "Russian variations in epic style on an original theme" op. 3 (1913-1914).
Later, M. Vilinsky writes "Sample Variations" op.29 (as a help from the harmony course for student composers - 1947), "Variations No. 1 and No. 2." Op. 33 (1949), "Four miniatures in memory of A. Lyadov" op. 40 (1956).
In the 1920s and 1930s, M. Vilinskyi played a major role in the development of the national musical culture of Moldova. He traveled a lot in its remotest areas and collected folk songs and dance tunes. As a result of many years of painstaking work, a large number of them were published, these works entered the repertoire of the Doina Chapel, in addition, there were 3 suites for symphony orchestra on Moldovan folk themes and the cantata "Moldova" for choir, soloists and symphony orchestra op. 21 (1937–1939). His students started working in Moldova: David Hershfeld, who later became the director of the Chisinau Conservatory, Leonid Gurov and others.
M. Vilinsky participated in the publication of the collection of works of Mykola Lysenko. He edited the 13th and 14th volumes, and he restored part of the unpublished works from drafts, and finished the unfinished works of the composer on behalf of the editorial board.
Among Vilinsky's students are composers Kostyantyn Dankevich, Oleksandr Bilash, Leonid Gurov, Seraphim Orfeev, Oskar Feltsman, David Hershfeld, Georgy Miretsky, V. Femilidi, Anton Mukha.
Awarded the Order of Lenin and the Badge of Honor. Buried at Baikovo Cemetery in Kyiv.
About Mykola Vilinskyi
Mykola Mykolayovych Vilinskyi was a wonderful musician and a wonderful person. All his works bear the stamp of true talent and all of them show the fine taste and great professional skill of the author. As for Mykola Mykolayovych as a person, everyone who even occasionally met him could not help but be convinced of his high mental qualities, which were manifested throughout his life.
Borys Lyatoshynskyi
"Together with Kosenko, Lyatoshinskyi, Revutskyi and other Ukrainian masters, Vilinskyi contributed to the process of crystallization of national traits in Ukrainian piano culture. "
Ukrainian piano music. Reader.
Canon
Piano works
Opus without number. Piano pieces: Sad song, Funeral march, Two mazurkas, Elegy, Waltz, Tu-tu march. Prelude No. 1, Prelude No. 2, Prelude No. 3, Prelude for the left hand. ("Soviet composer", K., 1961)
Opus 2. Fugue for piano. 1913
Opus 3. "Russian Variations in Epic Style" for piano on an original theme. 1914
Opus 4. "Ballad in the form of variations for piano on a Ukrainian folk theme." 1917–1925 ("Art", K., 1939 and 1950)
Opus 5. "Scherzo Etude" for piano. 1918
Opus 6. "Elegy Suite" - eight preludes for piano. 1914–1918 ("Muzgiz", M., 1926).
Opus 7. Two pieces for piano: "Dream", "Thoughts" (Muzgiz, M., 1926)
ATopus 10. Sonata for violin and piano. 1929
Opus 11. "Children's album" - eight pieces for piano 4 hands. 1925 ("Art", K., 1940).
Opus 29. Model variations for piano. A guide to the harmony course for student composers. 1947
Opus 33. No. 1. Variations on an original theme (D major) for piano. 1949 No. 2. Variations for piano. 1949
Opus 40. "Four miniatures in memory of A. Lyadov" for piano. 1951
Symphonic, vocal-symphonic, choral works
Opus 1. "Characteristic Dances", suite for symphony orchestra. 1910
Opus 16. Suite No. 1 on Moldovan folk songs for symphony orchestra. 1932.
Opus 17. Suite No. 2 on Moldavian themes for symphony orchestra. 1933
Opus 18. "Progress march" for brass band. 1935
Opus 21. "Moldova" - a cantata for choir, soloists, symphony orchestra with words by L. Kornianu. 1937–1939
Opus 22. Music for the film "The Happiness of Being Young" (Odesa Film Studio). 1937.
Opus 24. Processing of T. G. Shevchenko's "Testament" for choir and symphony orchestra. 1939
Opus 28. Suite No. 3 on themes of Moldovan folk songs for symphony orchestra 1944–1945.
Opus 39. Processing of the song "The mountain stands tall" for choir, soloists, symphony orchestra. 1951
Opus 41. "Ballet Suite" in 4 movements for symphony orchestra. 1956
Opus without number. Choirs to texts by P. Tychyna (Manuscript not found).
Chamber and vocal works (romances and songs, arrangements of Ukrainian, Russian, Moldovan songs)
Opus without number. Romances and songs to the words of O. K. Tolstoy: "Ushkuynyk", "Gryadoi klubitsya beloyu...", "Dreevtso moe mandalnoe", "Oh, if you could at least for a single moment...", "Hurry up", "I kissed you " to the words of A. Maikov, "What a heavy dream" to the words of V. Solovyov. "Bright stars are burning" in the words of M. Minsky. 1908-1913
Opus without number. "It is tiring to sing a song" and "Shadow behind the light", lyrics by O. Vilinsky, 1915.
Opus 8. "Humoreski", four songs to words by Kuzma Prutkov. 1920
Opus without number. Two romances based on the words of O. Vilinsky: "Lilac", "Everywhere you look - a solemn space." 1925
Opuses 14, 15, 18, 20. 28 arrangements of Moldovan folk songs for solo voice, choir and piano. 1930 — 1937. Some of them were printed in a collection published by the Committee for the Arts of the Moldavian SSR in 1940.
Opus without number. Two songs to the words of O. S. Pushkin: "To Chaadaev", "White-sided Dragonfly". 1937 (For the magazine "Soviet Music", No. 6, 7 for 1937)
Opus 25. Arrangement of eight Moldovan folk songs for voice and piano. 1941.
Opus 26. Five arrangements of Uzbek folk songs for voice and piano. 1942.
Opus 30. Four arrangements of Moldovan folk songs for voice and piano, recorded by A. Borshch.
Opus 31. Arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs: 1. "The sycamore stands on the water" (Soviet composer, K., 1961), "Oi verbo, verbo", "About Karmaluk", "Oi zhigune..." ("Soviet composer", K. ., 1960). 1949
Opus 32. Two arrangements of Russian folk songs: "Utes", "Ah, letyat utky..." (Soviet composer, K., 1960). 1949
Opus 35. Three arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs: "In the cherry orchard", "Oh worlds, moon girl", "It's raining" (Soviet composer, K., 1961). 1950.
Opus 36. Processing of the Russian folk song "Down the Volga River" for bass and piano. 1950
Opus 37. Two arrangements of Moldovan folk songs for voice and piano: "Hey, my cuckoo", "Traktorul". 1951
Editing
Editing and completion of the fp. TV M. Lysenko, play for Skr. with fp. V. Kosenko.
Research, intelligence, articles, in particular — Peculiarities of the structure of Moldovan folk songs// Rad. music, 1938, No. 4.
