Lesia Dychko facts for kids
Lesia Vasylivna Dychko (Ukrainian: Леся Василівна Дичко), whose original name was Liudmyla Vasylivna Dychko, is a famous Ukrainian composer and music teacher. She was born on October 24, 1939. She is well-known for creating many different kinds of music, especially for choirs.
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Life and Music
Early Years and Learning Music
Lesia Dychko was born in a city called Kyiv in Ukraine. This was on October 24, 1939. She started learning about music early in her life.
She went to the Kyiv Lysenko State Music Lyceum. This is a special school for music. She finished her studies there in 1959. She learned about music theory, which is like the rules and ideas behind how music is made.
Later, in 1964, she graduated from the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music. Here, she studied how to compose music. She learned from two important composers, Konstantyn Dankevych and Borys Lyatoshynsky. In 1971, she also studied with another composer named Nikolai Peiko.
Her Career as a Teacher and Composer
After finishing her studies, Lesia Dychko became a music teacher. She taught at different places. From 1965 to 1966, she lectured at the Kyiv Pedagogical Institute. She also taught at the Kyiv Arts Academy from 1972 to 1994. Since 1965, she has also taught at the Studio of the Honoured Ukrainian State Bandura Players Choir.
In 1993, Dychko started working at the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music. She became a professor there in 2009. This means she became a very high-level teacher. She has also been a visiting professor at other universities, sharing her knowledge with students there.
Awards and Special Recognitions
Lesia Dychko has won many important awards for her music.
- In 1969, she won first prize at a competition for young composers in Moscow.
- She received the Mykola Ostrovsky LKSMU Republican Award in 1970.
- In 1989, she won the Shevchenko National Prize. This is one of the highest awards in Ukraine for art and culture.
- She was given the title Honoured Representative of the Arts of Ukraine in 1982.
- In 1995, she became a People's Artist of Ukraine. These titles show that she is a very respected and important artist in her country.
Her Musical Works
Lesia Dychko's music often uses ideas from Ukrainian folk music. This style is sometimes called the Neofolkloric Wave. It means she takes old Ukrainian folk songs and traditions and uses them in new ways in her compositions.
Most of her music is written for choirs. She often takes old stories or paintings and turns them into musical pieces. She also writes sacred music, which is music for church services. She was one of the first composers in the Soviet Union to write church music.
Dychko also composes music for movies. She writes for many different instruments, including orchestras, choirs, flutes, violins, organs, and pianos.
Some of Her Compositions
Here are some of the musical pieces Lesia Dychko has created:
- 5 fantaziy (Five Fantasies): This piece is for choir and orchestra. It was inspired by paintings from famous artists like Vasily Surikov and Ivan Shishkin. She wrote it in 1962.
- Dosvitni vogni [Fires Before Dawn]: This is a ballet she composed in 1966.
- Natkhnennya [Inspiration]: Another ballet, written in 1966 and revised in 1983. It was inspired by paintings from Kateryna Bilokur.
- Zolotoslov [The Mellifluous Talker]: This is an opera she wrote in 1995.
- Chervona kalina [The Red Guelder Rose Tree]: This piece uses Ukrainian folk songs from the 1400s to 1600s. It's for solo singers and a choir. She wrote it in 1969 and revised it in 1971.
- Privitannya zhittya [Greeting to Life]: This is a symphony for male soloists and orchestra, based on texts by Bohdan Ihor Antonych. It was composed in 1972.
- Karpatskaya [The Carpathian Canticles]: A piece for choir from 1975.
- Chotyry pory roku [The Four Seasons]: Another choral work from 1975.
- Sonyachne kolo [The Circle of the Sun]: This piece is for a children's choir and orchestra, written in 1975.
- Vesna [Spring]: For children's choir and orchestra, from 1976.
- Zdravstvuy, novïy, dobrïy den′! [Greetings, New, Fine Day!]: For children's choir, from 1976.
- Veter revolyutsii [The Wind of Revolution]: A symphony for choir, using texts by Maksym Rylsky and Pavlo Tychyna. She composed it in 1976.
- Slava rabochim professiyam! [Glory to the Working Professions!]: For children's choir, from 1980.
- U Kyevi zori [The Stars in Kiev]: A traditional piece from 1982.
- I narekosha imya Kiev [And They Gave it the Name Kiev]: An oratorio (a large musical work for voices and orchestra) based on old Russian stories. She wrote it in 1982.
- Indiya-Lakshmi: An oratorio based on poems by Indian poets, from 1986.
- 5 khokku: A choral concerto (a piece for choir and orchestra) from 1989.
- Liturgiya no.1 and Liturgiya no.2: Two choral concertos from 1994 and 1995.
- Frantsuzskiye freski [French Frescoes] and Ispanskiye freski [Spanish Frescoes]: These are choral concertos from 1996.
- Romances: Songs based on poems by Ukrainian writers like Ukraïnka and Ivan Franko.
- Holod – 33 [Famine 1933]: A choir poem about a difficult time in history, based on words by S. Kolomiiets.
- Lebedi materynstva [The Swans of Motherhood]: Another choir poem, based on poems by Vasyl Symonenko.
She has also written orchestral suites, music for string quartets, solo instruments, and film scores.
