Mykhailo Haivoronsky
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Mykhailo Orest Haivoronsky (Ukrainian: Михайло Гайворонський) (1892 - 1949) was a Ukrainian composer, musician, conductor, teacher, violinist, and critic.
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Mykhailo Haivoronsky was born on September 15 (O.S. September 1), 1892 in Zalischyky, in the Podilia region. After graduating from the Zalischyky seminary in 1912, he went to study in the Mykola Lysenko music institute in Lviv. At the beginning of World War I there was a nationalistic independence movement of Halych, which Haivoronsky took part. He was the organizer, conductor, and inspector of many orchestras. In the early 1920's Mykhailo took an active part in musical life. He taught at the Mykola Lysenko music institute in Lviv, was a teacher of music at a girl's gymnasium, and conducted the combined choirs: Boian and Bandurist.
In 1923, Mykhailo Haivoronsky moved to the United States, to New York. There he founded a Music Conservatory in 1924 and lectured at the Columbian University. Later, he organized a Ukrainian Instrumental Orchestra, which he directed until 1936. Mykhailo also organized and conducted a combined choir with singers from seven church choirs, with whom he had big concerts of his own works from 1932 to 1936. From the second half of the 1930's and on, the composer focused more on composing music, and supporting Ukrainian youth in America. Mykhailo Haivoronsky died on September 11, 1949 in New York and is burried there.
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