Ukrainian composer, pianist and teacher.
Biography.
He studied music with Anton Kotsypinsky in Kamianets-Podilskyi, and from 1862 he taught piano and choral singing in Kyiv's women's boarding schools.
His son, Sigismund, was also a composer and conductor.
He died in Kyiv. He was buried at the Baikove cemetery.
The Khmelnytskyi Music College and a lane in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv are named after Vladyslav Zaremba.
His works
Author of songs and romances in both Ukrainian and Polish, including 30 pieces for voice and piano based on the words of Taras Shevchenko ("Music to Kobzar"). He has arranged a number of Ukrainian folk songs for piano.
He compiled collections of musical literature for children - the vocal "Songbook for Our Children" (Polish: Spiewnik dia naszych dziatek) and the piano "Little Paderewski" (Polish: Mały Paderewsky).
Zaremba's compositions are characterized by modest technical means and a certain monotony of moods, but his best works and arrangements ("I Look at the Sky," "Such is Her Fate," etc.) are still very popular.
Works.
Piano pieces:
"Farewell to Ukraine",
"A Noisy Thought",
"The Wide Dnipro Roars and Groans",
"Willows are making noise at the end of the dam",
"All the burlaks have gathered".
Romances and songs based on poems by Ukrainian and Polish poets:
More than 30 are based on poems by Taras Shevchenko:
"Kalyna" ("Why do you go to the grave?"),
My thoughts, my thoughts.
"I am rich and beautiful",
"It's not fun on the street",
"Such is her fate..." (from "Causal"),
"If only I had shoes",
"If only I had a necklace, mom",
"She trampled the path".
Arrangements for voice and piano of popular songs:
"I look at the sky, and I think about my thoughts..." by Lyudmyla Aleksandrova,
Ukrainian folk songs:
"Where are you, wandering, my fate",
"No, Mom, You Can't Love an Unloved One".
Collections:
"Songbook for our children",
"Little Paderewski" (for piano).
Music:
Music for the drama Nazar Stodolya (including songs by Stekh "I'll go over the mountain" and "Tra-lala, I was at the market")
"Music to Kobzar", solo for soprano and viola
