Nestor Nyzhankivsky (1893-1940) Reminiscence in B Minor
Live from the Recital on December 2, 2023 at the First Baptist Church in Medford, MA, USA.
Nestor Nyzhankivskyi was born 1893 in Berezhany in the family of composer, conductor, and Greek Catholic priest Ostap Nyzhankivskyi. He completed his secondary education in Stryi, studying at a gymnasium. Then he studied at the Mykola Lysenko Higher Music Institute in Lviv. Nyzhankivsky developed his compositional skills in exile at the Vienna Academy of Music (class of J. Marx), from which he graduated with a doctorate in philosophy.
During the First World War, he was drafted into the army, taken prisoner, and returned in 1918. Later, Nyzhankivsky studied at the Prague Conservatory with Vitezslav Novak, graduating in 1926 with the composition of the E minor Piano Trio.
In 1928, Nyzhankivsky became involved in the musical process in Western Ukraine, taking a position as a lecturer at the Mykola Lysenko Higher Music Institute in Lviv.
The composer was a member of the musicology section of the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society, a music critic for the Ukrainian Newspaper, and a co-organizer and first chairman of the Union of Ukrainian Professional Musicians (SUPROM). Nestor Nyzhankivsky died on April 10, 1940, in Lodz (Poland).
(from www.musical-world.com.ua)
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