Gregory Alchevsky

Gregory Alchevsky (Russian: Григо́рий Алексе́евич Алче́вский; 1866 in Kharkov, Russian Empire – 1920 in Moscow) was a Ukrainian and Russian composer.

Gregory Alchevsky

Gregory was the son of a mining engineer, industrialist and banker Aleksey Alchevsky, and teacher Khrystyna Zhuravlyova. Gregory also had two sіblings named Ivan and Khrystina. Ivan Alchevsky became a renowned opera singer and Khrystina Alchevskaya was a respected poet. Gregory Alchevsky himself, worked as a teacher of voice and piano, composer and singer. He was a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory of Music. His works include: several textbooks for vocalists, a symphony called "Alyosha Popovich", arrangements of Russian and Ukrainian Folk songs, and a series of solo works to the words of Apollon Maykov, Mikhail Lermontov, Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik, Yakov Polonsky, Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesia Ukrainka etc.

References
  • Dytyniak Maria Ukrainian Composers – A Bio-bibliographic Guide – Research report No. 14, 1896, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Canada.

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