Mykola Lysenko

Mykola Lysenko (1842–1912) is regarded as the founder of the Ukrainian national school of classical music. A composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist, he wrote the operas Taras Bulba and Natalka Poltavka, hundreds of art songs and folk-song arrangements, and sacred and choral works, and founded a music and drama school in Kyiv that bears his name.

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