Yevhen Adamtsevych
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Bandurist
A bandurist is a person who plays the Ukrainian plucked string instrument known as the bandura.-Types of performers:There are a number of different types of bandurist who differ in their paricular choice of instrument, the specific repertoire they play and manner in which they approach their...
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Biography
Yevhen Adamtsevych was born in the village of Solonytsia, not far from the town of LubnyLubny
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, Poltava
Poltava
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oblast. He died in 1972 in the village of Kholmivka in Crimea
Crimea
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Adamtsevych became blind in his childhood. He lived in Romny
Romny
Romny is a city in the northern Ukrainian Oblast of Sumy. It is located on the Romen River and is the administrative center of the Romny Raion...
where he became apprenticed to bandurist
Bandurist
A bandurist is a person who plays the Ukrainian plucked string instrument known as the bandura.-Types of performers:There are a number of different types of bandurist who differ in their paricular choice of instrument, the specific repertoire they play and manner in which they approach their...
M. P. Oleksienko. He began to perform solo from 1927.
In 1939 he participated in the conference of kobzar
Kobzar
A Kobzar was an itinerant Ukrainian bard who sang to his own accompaniment.-Tradition:Kobzars were often blind, and became predominantly so by the 1800s...
s which took place in Kiev
Kiev
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, and in 1940 a conference on folk singers which took place in Moscow
Moscow
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Repertoire
His repertoire included many historic Ukrainian folk songs, however it did not contain any authentic dumyDuma (epic)
A Duma is a sung epic poem which originated in Ukraine during the Hetmanate Era in the sixteenth century...
(sung epic poems).
He did however have an epic work in his repertoire, structured somewhat like a duma to the words of M. Vorony - "Yevshan-Zillia".
Adamtsevych is known as the composer of the "Zaporozhian March" which was later orchestrated by Viktor Hutsal and was included in the repertoire of the Ukrainian State Orchestra of Ukrainian Folk Instruments in Kiev.
Sources
- Kudrytsky, A. V. - Mystetsvo Ukrainy - Biohrafichnyj dovidnyk, K, 1997
- Mishalow, V. and M. - Ukrains'ki kobzari-bandurysty - Sydney, Australia, 1986
- Pravdiuk, O. - Romens'kyj kobzar Yevhen Adamtsevych (1971)
- Pravdiuk, O. - Dejaki osoblyvosti suchasnoho slovesno-muyzhnoho folkloru i tvorchist' Ye. O. Adamtsevycha (1983)
- Moshyk, M. - Kozari ta bandurysty Sumshchyny - Sumy, 1999
- Zheplynsky, B. - Korotka istoriya kobzarstva v Ukrayini - Lviv, 2000