( b Monastïryok, 13 Dec 1877; d Markovka, 25 Jan 1921). Ukrainian composer. He studied in seminaries and had consultations with Yavorsky (1909-14). The most brilliant of Lisenko's successors, he collected and arranged Ukrainian folk music; his Shchedryk (1916) established him as the most popular Ukrainian composer.

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