Ukrainian conductor, musician and public figure, composer.
Biography.
He was the last owner of Kutkivtsi. Brother of microbiologist Serhiy Mykolaiovych Vynohradskyi. His father was Mykola Vynohradskyi. His mother, Natalia Viktorivna, came from the Skoropadsky family. He was born in Kyiv. He studied at a Kyiv gymnasium. In 1877, the family moved to an estate in Horodok in Podillia.
In 1860, Vynohradsky studied at the music school of D. Halami. In 1876 he graduated from the Law Faculty of Kyiv University. In 1876-1877, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory (piano class of Mykola Rubinstein), and later at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (composition class of M. Solovyov, graduated in 1882). He took lessons from Milii Balakyrev.
From 1884 he was the director of symphony concerts of the Saratov branch of the Russian Musical Society, a member of its directorate. In 1886-1912 he lived in Kyiv. From 1888 he was a member of the directorate of the Kyiv branch of the Russian Music Society, and from 1889 he was the head of its musical department and director of symphony concerts.
Vynohradsky contributed significantly to the transformation of Kyiv into one of the leading musical centers: he increased the number of concerts from 2-3 to 8-9 per season, attracted leading domestic and foreign performers (Fyodor Chaliapin, A. Auer, J. Hoffmann, E. Izai, F. Kreisler, T. Ruffo), composers Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1891), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1911), and others. Vynohradskyi regularly introduced Kyiv residents to the masterpieces of world symphonic music (all symphonies by L. Beethoven, R. Schumann, and P. Tchaikovsky), performed for the first time the 1st (1897) and 2nd (dedicated to Vynohradskyi, 1898) symphonies by V. S. Kalynnykov, Symphony in D minor (1897) and symphonic poem "The Damned Hunter" (1895) by Ivan Franko, a number of works by Antonin Dvořák, Camille Saint-Saëns, Franz Fibich and others. Kyivan artists took part in Vynohradsky's concerts - pianists H. Bobinsky, V. Pukhalsky, M. Tutkovsky, H. Khodorovsky-Moroz, violinist M. Erdenko, singers P. Koshits, M. Lytvynenko-Volhemut, O. Myshuga, Y. Kalishevsky's choir, and others.
Vynohradskyi toured St. Petersburg, Moscow, Odesa, Kharkiv, and abroad (Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Antwerp, Prague), where he performed works by various composers.
He is the author of variations for symphony orchestra, the symphonic poem "The Nun", two string quartets, a sonata for violin and piano, and others.
