Siczynsky Denys
COMPOSERS
His compositional output includes the opera “Roxolana,” staged in Kyiv in 1912 by Mykola Sadovsky’s troupe.
DENYS SICZYNSKY (1865, Ternopil – 1909, Stanislavov) received his musical education from Wladyslaw Wszelaczynski and L. Levitsky in Ternopil, and then at the Lviv Conservatory with Karol Mikula. He was an active music activist – one of the founders of the Bojan Ukrainian Choral Society, and a member of the Committee for the Publication of Ukrainian Folk Songs. He was also a conductor of various choirs in Peremysl, Drohobych and Stanislaviv, where he organized the Music Library Publishing House, publishing for the first time many works by Ukrainian composers.
Siczynski’s work consists mainly of vocal works – solo and choral. His compositional output also includes the opera “Roxolana,” staged in Kyiv in 1912 by Mykola Sadovsky’s troupe.