Zahvoyskyi Yosyp (*early seventeenth century - †after 1656) was a Ukrainian singer, choral conductor, court singer of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, and composer. A graduate of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Biography.
He received his education, including music, at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
He was the regent of the choir of the Kyiv Brotherhood Monastery. 1655-1656 - singer and regent of the choir of the Kyiv Cave Monastery, court singer of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky ("stood on the klyros in Chyhyryn").
In early 1656, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich of Moscow ordered the archimandrite of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Y. Tryzna, and the Kyiv voivode, F. Volkonsky, to send 3avoysky to Moscow to join the choir of the sovereign's singing clerks to teach him "partes singing". Two Ukrainian singers who had previously served in Moscow arrived in Kyiv with a royal charter: Oleksii Leshkovskyi and Klym Konovskyi. However, because of his unwillingness to serve the tsar, 3avoysky left the Kyiv Cave Monastery, and he could not be found in the Kyiv St Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, the Kyiv Pustynno-Mykolaiv Monastery, the Kyiv Mezhyhirya Monastery, or Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Chyhyryn. The hetman responded with a letter: "Zagvoysky cannot be sent as a prisoner of war." Appeals to the rector of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, L. Baranovych, were also fruitless. They wanted to take the metropolitan singer and regent V. Pykulynskyi to Moscow instead of Zahvoyskyi, but S. Kosov refused to let him go to Moscow ("it is impossible to work in the monastery without him").
Zavoysky's works were lost.
