Author: Buzhansky, O.
Title: Korotka Biohrafiia M.D. Leontovicha (a Short Biography of M.D. Leontovich) [a Speech, Presented at a Giessen Dp Camp, on the 28th Anniversary of Leontovich's Death]
Description: Giessen: By the author, 1948. Softcover. Typed, loose sheets; pp. [8], recto only; light age-toning; a few carbon paper smudges; very good to near fine condition. Also included is a photo of Leontovich, with a short inscription and an unidentified signature, dated 1949 in Giessen. Mykola Leontovich (1877 - 1921) was a Ukrainian composer, educator, and choral conductor. Inspired by the Ukrainian Nationalist Music School, Leontovich would become known worldwide as "The Ukrainian Bach," for his cappella choral music and for his liturgy - the first one composed in the modern Ukrainian language. During the period immediately after the October Revolution, he moved with his family to Kiev, where he taught at the Mykola Lysenko Institute of Music and Drama and co-organized the first Ukrainian State Orchestra. On the night of January 22-23, 1921, while at his parents' house in Tulchyn for Christmas, Leontovich was shot and killed by Chekist (Soviet state security) agent Afanasy Grishchenko, presumably for his involvement in the Ukrainian Independence Movement. The speech, presented to refugees at a DP camp in Giessen, commemorated the death of the beloved composer. Ill.: 0. 2.

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