Top 12 Famous People of Chernihiv
"Being really engaged, he was studying music six, seven or even eight hours a day.However, I realized that it was a drawback in my lessons: I often wanted to play something that I needn’t to play, because I can never reached the cherished perfection, but there were also successes "the composer wrote about those times.
Lev Revutsky was born on February 20, 1889 in the village of Irzhavets, now Ichniansky district of Chernihiv region, in the family of a trustee of a rural school. The parents of the future composer, in addition to being educated, intelligent people, were very fond of music, which undoubtedly contributed to the awakening and early development of the boy's gift.
Musical talent of Levko showed up very early. His mother began to teach him to play the piano when he was just five. However, the real craving for music developed much later. Approximately at the age of ten, boy found himself a skill of improvisation. Because he had a sense of absolute pitch, he was nicknamed Camertone. The high school years began in Pryluky. In 1903 the parents decided to transfer Levko to the Kiev private gymnasium G. Walker. Soon he enters the music school of N. Tumanovsky, to the piano class of M. Lysenko. "M.V. Lysenko was the first example for me, of his attitude to his artistic work," Lev Revutsky recalled later.
"Being really engaged, he was studying music six, seven or even eight hours a day.However, I realized that it was a drawback in my lessons: I often wanted to play something that I needn’t to play, because I can never reached the cherished perfection, but there were also successes "the composer wrote about those times.
In 1911 he moved to a higher rate in Class of D. Khodorovsky. L. Revutsky's teaching in this master's class lasted for several years: from 1911 to 1913 at the music school, and later at the newly opened Conservatory. At the Conservatoire L. Revutsky, at the same time, as studying the piano, he began his studies in the composition class of R. Glier's. The composer did not quit his studies at the university, but at the same time he worked hard and creative. At this time the first part of the Piano Sonata (c-moll) appears and the first symphony in short score, the prelude to the fourth opus.
In 1924 L. Revutsky was invited to Kyiv to become a teacher of the Music and Drama Institute named after M. Lysenko. From that time he became fully involved in teaching, first as a teacher and then as a professor of music-theoretical disciplines and a teacher of performing and composing staff.
During 1944 - 1948 Lev headed the Union of Composers of Ukraine. He was elected as a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) of the USSR. In the 1950s, a great piece of editing and preparation for printing M. Lysenko's works was successfully completed.
