| Yevhen AdamtsevychЄвген Адамцевич | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | (1904-01-01)1 January 1904 Solonytsia [uk], Russian Empire (now Ukraine) |
| Died | 1 January 1972(1972-01-01) (aged 68) Kholmivka [uk], Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine) |
| Genres | Folk music |
| Instrument | Bandura |
| Years active | 1927–1972 |
Yevhen Oleksandrovych Adamtsevych (Ukrainian: Євге́н Олекса́ндрович Адамце́вич; 1 January [O.S. 19 December 1903] 1904 – 1 January 1972) was a Ukrainian blind bandurist.
Biography
Yevhen Oleksandrovych Adamtsevych was born in the village of Solonytsia on 1 January 1904, not far from the town of Lubny, in what is now Ukraine's Poltava Oblast. His father, who came from Snovsk, worked at one time at the railway station at Solonytsia [uk], possibly as the station master. His mother was Maria Mykhailivna (née Bilan), the middle class daughter of a tailor whose five children were all educated at home.
Yevhen became blind at the age of two. He was educated at a school for the blind in Kyiv. He lived in Romny where from 1925 he was apprenticed to the kobzar Musii Petrovych Oleksienko [uk], who taught him to play the bandura.
Adamtsevych began to perform as a soloist in 1927, where he led a group of bandurists. In 1927 he married Lidia Dmytrivna Paradis; her relatives did not approve of this marriage and were only reconciled years later. During the 1930s, he was a travelling kobzar. In 1939 he participated in the conference of kobzars which took place in Kyiv, and he participated in a 1940 conference on folk singers in Moscow.
During the Second World War, Adamtsevych travelled around Ukraine, performing patriotic songs, including his own composition, the song Unwillingly. During the 1950s and 1960s, he and other bandurists gave concerts in Ukraine and Russia.
In October 1972, Adamtsevych and his wife moved to live with their daughter in the village of Kholmivka, Bakhchysaray District, Crimea. Three weeks later, he was hospitalized with acute pain caused by a stone in his gall bladder), but died during the early hours of 20 November whilst on the operating table. He bequeathed his bandura to the Taras Shevchenko Museum [uk] in Kaniv.
Playing and singing style
Adamtsevych acted as a bearer of the national Ukrainian traditions of singing and playing the bandura, which he learned his repertoire directly through oral transmission. A characteristic feature of Adamtsevych's singing style was his ability to highlight syllables or words; the range of his voice covered two octaves. he was known for being able to easily memorize the music and lyrics of any songs that he listened to.
Personality
Adamtsevych's daughter recalled her father as being was energetic, cheerful, and neat. He did not have a haircut, but shaved his head "according to Kotovskyi". According to his daughter, "He did everything himself: he sawed and chopped firewood, repaired the house, built it, even roofed the house himself with iron, dug cellars and covered it with bricks." Adamtsevich attempted unsuccessfully to teach his daughter Tetyana to play the bandura.
Repertoire
Adamtsevych's repertoire included many historic Ukrainian folk songs, but lacked any authentic dumy (sung epic poems). Yevshan-Zillia, the single epic work in his repertoire, was structured like a duma.
Adamtsevych composed the "Zaporizhian March", which was orchestrated by Viktor Hutsal [uk]. The march was played regularly by the Ukrainian State Orchestra of Ukrainian Folk Instruments in Kyiv. Other compositions include the songs "In Captivity" (1941), and "Thoughts about I.F. Fedka" (1966).
References
- ^ Nimylovych, O. M. "Adamtsevich, Yevhen Oleksandrovych". State Scientific Institution "Encyclopedic Publishing House". Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- ^ Bobrykova, Tatyana (1 May 2003). "Про Мого Батька, Бандуриста України" [About my father, bandurist of Ukraine]. Crimean chamber (Krymska Svitlytsia) (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 5 August 2022.
- ^ Zheplinsky & Kovalchuk 2011, p. 5.
- ^ Skrypnyk 2006, pp. 29–30.
- ^ Dutchak, V. G. (2001). Adamtsevich Evgeny Oleksandrovych. Institute of Encyclopedic Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. ISBN 9789660220744. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - Kononenko, Natalie O. (1998). Ukrainian minstrels: and the blind shall sing. Folklores and folk cultures of Eastern Europe. Armonk, N.Y. London: M.E. Sharpe. pp. 116–117. ISBN 978-0-7656-0144-5.
- "Євген Адамцевич – народний автор народної музики" [Yevhen Adamtsevich is a folk author of folk music]. Ukrainian Agency for Copyright and Related Rights. 17 December 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
Sources
- Skrypnyk, Anna, ed. (2006). "Adamtsevych, Yevhen Oleksandrovych". Encyclopedia of the Music of Ukraine (PDF) (in Ukrainian). Vol. 1. Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology. pp. 29–30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 January 2021.
- Zheplinsky, B.M.; Kovalchuk, D.B. (2011). Українські кобзарі, бандуристи, лірники: Енциклопедичний довідник [Ukrainian kobzars, bandurists, lyrniks: an encyclopedic guide] (PDF). Lviv. pp. 1–135. ISBN 978-966-1633-26-0.
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