Alois Jedliczka (German: Alois Jedliczka; b. December 14, 1821, Kukleny - d. September 27, 1894, Poltava) was a Ukrainian composer, folklorist, teacher, pianist, and choral conductor. Czech by birth. Brother of the pianist Wenceslav Jedlicka, father of the pianist Ernst Jedlicka.
He was born on December 14, 1821 in Kukleny (now part of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic). In 1837, he entered the Prague Conservatory, a student of Dionysus Weber and Giovanni Battista Gordigiani. In 1842, he graduated from the conservatory and came to Ukraine to teach piano at the Poltava Institute of Noble Girls.
In 1845, he worked as a music teacher at the estate of the Rodzianko magnates in Poltava, where his brother Wencesław worked. In 1848, Jedlicka taught piano at the Men's Gymnasium and the Institute for Noble Girls; among his students was the future opera singer Oleksandra Santahano. The Yedlichko brothers worked at the Poltava Institute of Noble Girls for over four decades: Wencesław served as a senior music teacher from 1848 to 1879, and Alois was his assistant and teacher of Italian singing from 1848 to 1892.
He died on September 27, 1894 in Poltava.
Creative work
The basis of his creative activity was the collection and processing of Ukrainian folk songs. The result of the composer's enormous work in this direction is the collection "100 Little Russian Folk Songs" (in 2 parts; publishers: M. I. Bernard (1861) and P. I. Yurgenson (1862)), which contains many valuable examples of Ukrainian folk song creativity. The medley "Flowers of Ukraine" on the themes of favorite Ukrainian songs represents the author's attempt to present Ukrainian folk song creativity in piano arrangement. It is probably no coincidence that A. Yedlichka named his work this way, because, as the famous musicologist Mykola Hordiychuk noted, "folk songs... are flowers."
He wrote the music for the famous song "Hey, I Had a Horse" (based on the lyrics by Yakiv Shchogoliv). Alois Yedlichka is the author of the fantasy "Memories of Poltava" and edited Opanas Markovych's music for Ivan Kotliarevskyi's "Natalka Poltavka". Mykola Lysenko, F. Kolessa, and other Ukrainian composers and musicologists used Alois Yedlichka's recordings of Ukrainian folklore.
Works.
Collection of Little Russian folk songs, parts 1-2. SPB, 1861.
One hundred Little Russian folk songs. SPB, 1869.
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