Name Yakiv Stepovy | Role Composer | |
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Albums Yakiv Stepovyi: The Art Songs Cd2, Yakiv Stepovyi: The Art Songs Cd1 Similar People Kyrylo Stetsenko, Mykola Lysenko, Mykola Leontovych, Stanyslav Lyudkevych, Boris Lyatoshinsky | ||
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Yakiv Stepovy (Ukrainian: Yakіv Stepovii) (born October 20, 1883 – died November 4, 1921) – was a Ukrainian composer, teacher, and music critic. Stepovy was born Yakiv Yakymenko ( Akimenko) in Kharkiv, in the Russian Empire (in present-day Ukraine). Stepovy's older brother, Theodore Yakymenko (Theodore Akimenko), was also a composer. Stepovy was a representative of the Ukrainian musical intelligentsia of the 20th century. He was one of the founders of the national school of composition and composed in the tradition of Mykola Lysenko.
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Stepovy was a graduate of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied with Alexander Glazunov and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and graduated in 1914.
During World War I, Stepovy was recruited to the military, where he worked as a secretary on a hospital train. He served in the military for almost three years, until he managed to get released in April 1917. After this he settled in Kiev where he worked as a teacher at the Kiev Conservatory and a musical critic.
He was a master at choral and piano works, the author of music collections for children, teacher of the Kiev Conservatory and founder of the State vocal quartet.
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Songs
Unto the Mountains
Rubies
Play Those Songs No More!
Evening
My Captive Thoughts
Sleep - Lifeless Wilted Flowers
Once Song Poured Forth from Me
Scatter in the Wind
The Highway-Builders
Do Not Take the Willow from the Green Grove
Sorrow and Joy
It Is Well to Have Friends Everywhere!
The Cove
Nocturne
Not All Sorrows Have Died
A Century of Oppression
The Valleys Slumber
The Sun of Warmth and Kindness
The Chumak and the Tar Pot
Serenade
An Endless Steppe
Dank and Dark
Soon the Sun Will Laugh
Thought Follows Thought
Camomile Blooms on the Hill
O Cherished Word
My Despair
Summer Nights
Do Not Sing Happy Songs
The Sun Is Setting
Blossoms in the Valley
Ribbon to Ribbon