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{{Short description|Ukrainian composer and musician (1842–1912)}}
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{{Infobox classical composer
| name             = Mykola Lysenko
| image            = Лисенко Микола.jpg
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| caption          = Mykola Lysenko, {{circa}} 1900
| native_name      = {{nobold|Микола Лисенко}}
| native_name_lang = uk
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1842|3|22|df=y}}
| birth_place      = Grinki, [[Russian Empire]] (now [[Hrynky, Poltava Oblast|Grinki]], [[Kremenchuk Raion]], [[Poltava Oblast]], [[Ukraine]])
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1912|11|6|1842|3|22|df=y}}
| death_place      = Kiev, [[Russian Empire]] (now [[Kyiv]], [[Ukraine]])
| occupation       = {{hlist| [[Composer]] | [[Pianist]]| Conductor | [[Ethnomusicologist]] }}
| list_of_works    = <!--[[#List of compositions|List of compositions]]-->
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'''Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko''' ({{langx|uk|Микола Віталійович Лисенко}}; 22 March 1842 – 6 November 1912){{refn|Some sources record Lysenko's lifetime in the [[Old Style and New Style dates|Old Style]] dating system. In this Lysenko's lifetime would be 10 March 1842 – 24 October 1912{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 1}}|group=n}} was a [[List of Ukrainian composers|Ukrainian composer]], [[pianist]], conductor and [[ethnomusicologist]] of the late [[Romantic music|Romantic period]].{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 1}} In his time he was the central figure of [[Music of Ukraine|Ukrainian music]], with an ''oeuvre'' that includes operas, [[art song]]s, choral works, orchestral and chamber pieces, and a wide variety of solo piano music. He is often credited with founding a [[Musical nationalism#Ukraine|national music tradition]] during the [[Ukrainian national revival]], in the vein of contemporaries such as [[Edvard Grieg|Grieg]] in Norway, [[The Five (composers)|The Five]] in Russia as well as [[Bedřich Smetana|Smetana]] and [[Antonín Dvořák|Dvořák]] in what is now the Czech Republic.{{sfn|Turchyn|2006|loc=§ para. 1}} 

By studying and drawing from [[Ukrainian folk music]], promoting the use of the [[Ukrainian language]], and separating himself from Russian culture, his compositions form what many consider the quintessential essence of Ukrainian music.{{sfn|Baley|Hrytsa|2001|loc=§2 "The 19th century"}} This is demonstrated best in his epic opera ''[[Taras Bulba (opera)|Taras Bulba]]'' from the [[Taras Bulba|novella of the same name]] by [[Nikolai Gogol]], in which the grandeur, complexity and Ukrainian-language libretto prevented its staging during Lysenko's lifetime.{{sfn|Taruskin|2002|loc=§ para. 3}}

To promote and cultivate Ukrainian culture, Lysenko set works by many Ukrainian poets to music, especially [[Taras Shevchenko]], to whom he was particularly devoted.{{refn|When [[Taras Shevchenko]] died and his body was brought to Ukraine in 1861, Lysenko was a [[pallbearer]] at his funeral.{{sfn|Predota|2022|loc=§ para. 5}}|group=n}} His musical setting of a patriotic poem by [[Oleksandr Konysky]], known as the "[[Prayer for Ukraine]]", has become Ukraine's spiritual anthem. Lysenko had a profound influence on later [[List of Ukrainian composers|Ukrainian composers]], including [[Stanyslav Lyudkevych]], [[Alexander Koshetz]], [[Kyrylo Stetsenko]], [[Yakiv Stepovy]], and most importantly, [[Mykola Leontovych]]. 

He is the namesake of the [[Mykola Lysenko International Music Competition]] and the [[Lysenko music school]], which is now the [[Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University]]. Despite his immense renown in Ukraine, Lysenko remains relatively unknown outside of his home country.

== Life and career ==
===Early life===
Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko (transliterated in Russian as Nikolay Vitalyevich Lysenko), was born in [[Hrynky, Poltava Oblast|Hrynky]], near [[Kremenchugsky Uyezd]] of the [[Poltava Governorate]] (now [[Kremenchuk]], [[Poltava Oblast]], Ukraine) on 22 March 1842.{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 1}} His hometown was a small village near the [[Dnieper]] river, and between the major cities of [[Kyiv]] and [[Dnipropetrovsk]].{{sfn|Predota|2022|loc=§ para. 4}} At the time, Ukraine was split between the [[Russian Empire]] and [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]].{{sfn|Turchyn|2006|loc=§ para. 2}} The [[Lysenko]] family was wealthy and educated;{{sfn|Turchyn|2006|loc=§ para. 2}} they were an old [[aristocratic]] family stemming back to [[Cossacks]] of the 17th-century.{{sfn|Predota|2022|loc=§ para. 4}} Among their descendants were the [[colonel]] {{ill|Лисенко Іван Якович|uk|lt=Ivan Lysenko}} ({{Died-in|1699}}) who had commanded the [[Chernigov Regiment|Chernihiv Regiment]] and fought in both the [[Chyhyrin Campaigns]] and [[Azov campaigns (1695–1696)|Azov campaigns]]; Ivan Lysenko's son, {{ill|Лисенко Федір Іванович|uk|lt=Fedir Lysenko}} ({{Died-in|1751}}) had served as a [[yesaul]] and {{ill|Генеральний суддя|uk|lt=general judge}}.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |year=1993 |encyclopedia=[[Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine]] |title=Lysenko Family |publisher=Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies |location=Edmonton |url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CL%5CY%5CLysenkofamily.htm |access-date=18 March 2022 }}</ref> Mykola Lysenko's father was {{ill|Лисенко Віталій Романович (старший)|uk|lt=Vitaliy Romanovych Lysenko}}, the great grandson of Fedir and a colonel himself.{{sfn|Filenko|Bulat|2001|p=13}} The composer had two younger siblings, a sister, {{ill|Старицька Софія Віталіївна|uk|lt= Sofiya Vitaliivna Staryts'ka}} and a brother, {{ill|Лисенко Андрій Віталійович|uk|lt=Andriy Vitaliyovych Lysenko}}.{{sfn|Filenko|Bulat|2001|p=19}}

Lysenko studied music at an early age, first receiving piano instruction from his mother.{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 1}} At the age of nine, he was brought to Kyiv to continue musical study in [[boarding school]]s.{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 1}}{{sfn|Predota|2022|loc=§ para. 4}}{{sfn|Wytwycky|2010|loc=§ para. 2}} He studied piano under {{ill|Паночіні Алоїз Йосипович|uk|lt=Alois Panocini}} and [[music theory]].{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 1}} His early compositions from this time survive, including a Polka ({{circa|1851}}) and Nocturne (1859–1860) for piano, as well as a piece for [[string orchestra]], ''Moldavskaya, Russian Pizzicato'' (1859–1860).{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ "Works"}} In 1860, Lysenko attended the [[Gymnasium (school)|Gymnasium]] of [[Kharkiv]], and studied [[natural science]]s at the [[National University of Kharkiv|city's university]], and later at the [[Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv|Kyiv University]].{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 1}} At the latter he continued his music studies with Dmitriyev, Wilczyk and Wolner,{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 1}} and graduated in 1865 with a degree in the natural sciences.{{sfn|Wytwycky|2010|loc=§ para. 1}} Lysenko then completed two years of [[civil service]] in [[Tarashcha]] county as a {{ill|Мировой посредник (должность)|uk|Мировий посередник|ru|lt=peace mediator}} for disputes involving former [[serf]]s and their land-ownership claims.{{sfn|Wytwycky|2010|loc=§ para. 1}}{{sfn|Predota|2022|loc=§ para. 5}} He pursued further music studies at the [[Leipzig Conservatory]], Germany, from 1867 to 1869, where his primary teachers included [[Carl Reinecke]] for piano as well as [[Ernst Richter]] for composition and theory.{{sfn|Taruskin|2002|loc=§ para. 1}}

===Emerging composer===
[[File:Лисенко Микола.2.jpg|thumb|left|Lysenko in 1865]]
From his youth, Lysenko had developed an intense enthusiasm for Ukrainian music and culture, particularly from the influence of his grandparents,{{sfn|Wytwycky|2010|loc=§ para. 1}} and his enjoyment of peasant songs.{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 1}} In the early 1860s he began to collect and publish [[Ukrainian folk music|Ukrainian folk songs]], often with the minstrel [[Ostap Veresai]]'s help.{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 2}} He would later publish seven volumes of arrangements and transcriptions of these between 1868 and 1911.{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 2}} The philosophers [[Vissarion Belinsky]], [[Nikolay Chernyshevsky]] and [[Alexander Herzen]] influenced him.{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 1}} 

His early works included musical settings of Ukrainian poets, particularly [[Taras Shevchenko]], an important figure of early Ukrainian literature, whose text he set in the choral work ''Zapovit'' ('The Testament').{{sfn|Taruskin|2002|loc=§ para. 1–2}} Two other factors were important to his nationalistic fervor: close relationships with his cousin, [[Mykhailo Starytsky]], the historian [[Volodymyr Antonovych]] and the scholar Tadei Rylsky; and also his association with the [[Hromada (secret society)|hromada]] in Kyiv, the {{ill|Стара громада|uk|lt='Old Society'}}.{{sfn|Wytwycky|2010|loc=§ para. 1}} Lysenko concluded that music was the best way he could express his patriotism, and aimed to create an independent school of Ukrainian music, rather than duplicate existing styles of [[Western classical music]].{{sfn|Predota|2022|loc=§ para. 5}} In 1869 Lysenko returned to Kyiv, and in the words of music historian [[Richard Taruskin]], "he returned home a committed musical nationalist".{{sfn|Taruskin|2002|loc=§ para. 1}}

On his return to Kyiv he continued to arrange and study Ukrainian folk melodies.{{sfn|Predota|2022|loc=§ para. 5}} He split his time between numerous activities: giving piano lessons, working at the [[Russian Musical Society]] (RMS) chapter in Kyiv, and composing.{{sfn|Taruskin|2002|loc=§ para. 2}} During this period Lysenko wrote his first opera ''Chernomortsy'' (the 'Black Sea Sailors') between 1872 and 1873.{{sfn|Taruskin|2002|loc=§ para. 2}} Also during these years he wrote an orchestral [[Fantasia (music)|fantasia]], entitled ''Ukraïns′kyy kazak-shumka'' (Ukrainian Cossack Song) and a chamber piece for flute, violin and piano, the Fantasy on Ukrainian Themes.{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ "Works"}} Lysenko went to [[Saint Petersburg]] from 1874 to 1876 to study [[orchestration]] with [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]].{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 1}} Besides Rimsky-Korsakov, he met with other members of [[The Five (composers)|The Five]], particularly [[Modest Mussorgsky]], who was working on an opera set in Ukraine, ''[[The Fair at Sorochyntsi]]''.{{sfn|Taruskin|2002|loc=§ para. 2}} During this short stay in Saint Petersburg Lysenko conducted a choir{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 1}} and wrote many piano compositions, writing more than 10 works in a variety of genres.{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ "Works"}}

===Settling in Kyiv===
[[File:Mykola-lysenko-grave.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Mykola Lysenko's grave at [[Baikove Cemetery]] in Kyiv.]]
Lysenko led another choir when he returned to Kyiv 1876.{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 2}} Many of the choristers under Lysenko's instruction would become composers, including [[Levko Revutsky]], Porfyrii Demutsky, [[Kyrylo Stetsenko]] and his son {{ill|Лисенко Остап Миколайович|uk|lt=Ostap Lysenko}}.{{sfn|Katchanovski|Kohut|Nebesio|Yurkevich|2013|p=344}} Other acitives included organizing concerts for Veresai and giving music lessons, often at the {{ill|Київський інститут шляхетних дівчат|ru|Киевский институт благородных девиц|uk|lt=Kyiv Institute for Daughters of the Nobility}}.{{sfn|Taruskin|2002|loc=§ para. 2}}{{sfn|Wytwycky|2010|loc=§ para. 1}} 

By the late 1870s, Lysenko was recognized as a leading figure in Ukrainian music.{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 2}} As a Ukrainian composer living in a Russian-controlled state he endured continued difficulties from the government.{{sfn|Turchyn|2006|loc=§ para. 3}} His relationship with the RMS gradually deteriorated, until he was completely ignored.{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 2}} Unlike his Russian colleagues, Lysenko received no state support, and sometimes active resistance from Russian officials.{{sfn|Turchyn|2006|loc=§ para. 3}} He was repeatedly monitored by the government and often attacked in the local press,{{sfn|Turchyn|2006|loc=§ para. 4}} because his activities in support of Ukrainian culture made him suspicious to the political officials{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 2}} – in particular his frequent meetings with other Ukrainian patriots, and later, his support of the [[Russian Revolution of 1905|1905 revolution]] and heading of the [[Ukrainian Club]].{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 2}}{{sfn|Wytwycky|2010|loc=§ para. 2}} He was jailed for his stance on the revolution in 1907.{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 2}}

The [[Ems Ukaz]] decree of 1876 that banned use of the Ukrainian language in print was one of the obstacles for Lysenko; he had to publish some of his scores abroad, while performances of his music had to be authorized by the imperial censor.{{sfn|Turchyn|2006|loc=§ para. 3–4}} For his [[opera]] [[libretto|libretti]] Lysenko insisted on using only Ukrainian. He was so intent on promoting and elevating the Ukrainian culture that he didn't allow his opera ''[[Taras Bulba (opera)|Taras Bulba]]'' to be translated – he maintained that it was too ambitious to be staged in Ukrainian opera houses. [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]] was impressed by the opera and wanted to stage the work in [[Moscow]]. Lysenko's insistence on it being performed in Ukrainian, not Russian, prevented the performance from taking place in Moscow.{{sfn|Taruskin|2002|loc=§ para. 3}}

===Later career===
In his later years, Lysenko raised funds to open a Ukrainian School of Music, known as the [[Lysenko music school]]. Lysenko's daughter Mariana followed in her father's footsteps as a pianist, and his son Ostap also taught music in Kyiv.

==Music==
A composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist,{{sfn|Ukrainian Art Song Project|loc=§ para. 1}} Lysenko was the central figure of Ukrainian music in his time.{{sfn|Kryzhanivsky|2022|loc=§ [https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/Music Music of Ukraine]}} He was a prolific composer, writing many piano pieces, over a hundred art songs, operas, as well as orchestral, chamber and choral music.{{sfn|Ukrainian Art Song Project|loc=§ para. 1–3}}

===Operas===
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Lysenko wrote a number of operatic works, including the classical Ukrainian opera ''[[Natalka Poltavka (opera)|Natalka Poltavka]]'', ''[[Utoplena]]'' (''The Drowned Maiden'', after [[Gogol]]'s ''[[May Night, or the Drowned Maiden|May Night]]'') and ''[[Taras Bulba (opera)|Taras Bulba]]'', ''[[Nocturne (Lysenko)|Nocturne]]'', and two operas for children—''[[Koza-dereza]]'' and ''[[Mr. Kotsky]]''.{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ "Works"}}

===Art songs===
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Of his Ukrainian colleagues, Lysenko was the composer most committed to [[art song]]s ({{langx|uk|lirychni pisni|italic=yes}}).{{sfn|Ukrainian Art Song Project|loc=§ para. 3}} His works in this genre number 133, and "relate a wonderfully descriptive and passionate story of 19th- and early 20th-century European life".{{sfn|Ukrainian Art Song Project|loc=§ para. 3}} These songs are usually [[Through-composed music|through-composed]] and attentive to the details of the text.{{sfn|Turchyn|2006|loc=§ para. 9}} His approach blends characteristics from traditional Ukrainian music and Western classical music.{{sfn|Turchyn|2006|loc=§ para. 9}} From the former are the frequent use of [[ornamentation (music)|ornamentation]], unusual [[Metre (music)|meter]]s, and folk melody-like affects, while from classical music there is a [[Romantic music|Romantic]] use of intense [[chromaticism]] and rapid shifts between [[tonal center]]s, typical of [[20th-century classical music]].{{sfn|Turchyn|2006|loc=§ para. 9}} His songs cover a wide variety of topics, described by the musicologist Dagmara Turchyn as an "astoundingly wide [range]—passionate dramatic monologues and meditative elegies, profound philosophical statements and colourful folk scenes, lyrical serenades and ecstatic love songs, a melancholy waltz and a heroic duma, an extensive romantic ballad and a tone poem".{{sfn|Turchyn|2006|loc=§ para. 9}}

Lysenko set music to many poets, particularly the Ukrainian [[modernism|modernist]]s,{{sfn|Turchyn|2006|loc=§ para. 8}} which he found the best way to express his patriotic and political beliefs.{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ para. 2}} These included [[Ivan Franko]], [[Yevhen Hrebinka]], [[Oleksandr Oles]], {{ill|Руданський Степан Васильович|uk|lt=Stepan Rudanskyi}}, Shchegolev, Staryts′ky and [[Lesya Ukrainka]], but also others such as [[Heinrich Heine]], [[Adam Mickiewicz]] and [[Semyon Nadson]].{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ "Works"}} He was particularly devoted to Taras Shevchenko, and set 82 texts from the poet's ''[[Kobzar (poetry collection)|Kobzar]]'' collection.{{sfn|Wytwycky|2010|loc=§ para. 5}} In Ukraine, comparisons are often drawn between Lysenko and Shevchenko, both of whom form what many Ukrainians consider the essence of their culture and identity.{{sfn|Turchyn|2006|loc=§ para. 7}}

===Other vocal music===
Aside from art songs, Lysenko's vocal work includes three cantatas for choir and orchestra, all to [[Taras Shevchenko]]'s texts: ''Raduisia nyvo nepolytaia'' (Rejoice, Unwatered Field), ''Biut’ porohy'' (The Rapids Roar), ''{{lang|uk|Na vichnu pamiat’ Kotliarevs’komu}}'' (To the Eternal Memory of Kotliarevsky).{{sfn|Wytwycky|2010|loc=§ para. 7}} He also arranged approximately 500 folk songs for voice and piano, choir and piano, or choir a cappella.{{sfn|Wytwycky|2010|loc=§ para. 8}} He wrote two works for anniversaries of Shevchenko's death, a Funeral March (1888) on words by Ukrainka for the 27th, and a Cantata (1911) for the 50th.{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ "Works"}}

His 1885 choral setting of a patriotic poem by [[Oleksandr Konysky]], originally intended for a children's choir, became known internationally as "[[Prayer for Ukraine]]", a spiritual hymn for the country.

===Piano music===
Lysenko's larger works for piano include the ''Ukrainian Suite in Form of Ancient Dances'', two rhapsodies (the second, ''Dumka-shumka'' is one of his most-known works), ''Heroic scherzo'' and Sonata in A minor. He also wrote dozens of smaller works such as nocturnes, polonaises, songs without words, and program pieces. Some of his piano works show the influence of [[Frédéric Chopin]]'s style. 

===Chamber music===
Lysenko's chamber music includes a string quartet, a trio for two violins and viola, and a number of works for violin and piano.

==Ethnomusicological work==
===Overview===
Lysenko made the first musical-ethnographic studies of the blind [[kobzar]] Ostap Veresai which he published in 1873 and 1874; they are still exemplary. Lysenko continued to research and transcribe the repertoire of other kobzars from other regions such as [[Opanas Slastion]] from [[Poltava]] and [[Pavlo Bratytsia]] from [[Chernihiv]]. He also made a thorough study of other Ukrainian folk instruments such as the [[torban]]. His collection of essays about Ukrainian [[folk instruments]] makes him the founder of Ukrainian [[organology]] and one of the first organologists in the Russian Empire.

===Writings===
Source:{{sfn|Spencer|2001|loc=§ "Writings"}}
* {{cite book |last=Lysenko |first=Mykola |year=1874 |title=Kharakteristika muzïkal'nïkh osobennostey malorusskikh dum i pesen, ispolnyayemïkh kobzarem Veresayem |trans-title=The nature of the musical peculiarities of Ukrainian ballads and songs, performed by the kobzar player Veresay |publisher=Kobzar Ostap Veresay: Yego muzïka i ispolnyayemïye im narodnïye pesnï |location=Kyiv |ref=no }}
* {{cite journal |last=Lysenko |first=Mykola |date=July 1888 |title=Duma o Khel′nitskom i Barabashe |trans-title=The ballad of Khel'nitsky and Barabash |journal=[[Kievskaya starina]] |ref=no |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite journal |last=Lysenko |first=Mykola |date=March 1892 |title=O torbane i muzïke pesen Vidorta |trans-title= |journal=[[Kievskaya starina]] |volume=381 |ref=no |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite journal |last=Lysenko |first=Mykola |year=1894 |title=Narodnïye muzïkal′nïye instrumentï na Ukraine |trans-title=Folk instruments in the Ukraine |journal=Zorya |location=Lviv |issue=4–10 |ref=no |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite book |last=Lysenko |first=Mykola |editor-last=Hordiychuk |editor-first=Mykola |year=1955 |title=Pro narodnu pisnyu i pro narodnist' v muziki |trans-title=Folksong and nationalism in music |location=Kyiv |ref=no |author-mask=2 }}

==Legacy and influence==
The influence of his music and nationalistic style was immense for subsequent [[List of Ukrainian composers|Ukrainian composers]]. Composers such as [[Stanyslav Lyudkevych]], [[Alexander Koshetz]], [[Kyrylo Stetsenko]], [[Yakiv Stepovy]], and mostly importantly, [[Mykola Leontovych]], have acknowledged his influence.{{sfn|Ukrainian Art Song Project|loc=§ para. 1}} Despite his high renown in Ukraine, Lysenko is not particularly well known outside of the country.{{sfn|Turchyn|2006|loc=§ para. 9}}

From 1950 to 1959, Lysenko's complete works were published in Kyiv in 22 volumes.{{sfn|Ukrainian Art Song Project|loc=§ para. 1}}

A group of Ukrainian composers and musicians, including {{ill|Чавдар, Елизавета Ивановна|uk|Чавдар Єлизавета Іванівна|ru|lt=Yelizaveta Chavdar}}, Ariadna Lysenko (the composer's granddaughter), Yevhen Rzhanov, [[Andriy Shtoharenko]], [[Myroslav Skoryk]] and [[Yevhen Stankovych]] founded the [[Mykola Lysenko International Music Competition]] in 1962 in honor of Lysenko.<ref>{{cite web |title=Competition History |website=bizcard.com.ua |publisher=[[Ministry of Culture and Information Policy|Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine]] |url=https://bizcard.com.ua/competition/eng/history.php |access-date=20 March 2022 }}</ref> Lysenko's home in Kyiv where he resided from 1894 to 1912 was converted into the [[Mykola Lysenko House-Museum]] in 1987, one the city's many museums for important cultural figures.<ref>{{cite web |title=Музей выдающихся деятелей украинской культуры - Леси Украинки, Михаила Старицкого, Николая Лысенка, Панаса Саксаганского |trans-title=Museum of prominent figures of Ukrainian culture - Lesya Ukrainka, Mykhailo Starytsky, Mykola Lysenok, Panas Saksagansky |publisher=Первое экскурсионное бюро [The First Excursion Bureau] |language=Russian |url=https://primetour.ua/ru/excursions/museum/Muzey-vyidayuschihsya-deyateley-ukrainskoy-kulturyi---Lesi-Ukrainki--Mihaila-Staritskogo--Nikolaya--Lyisenka--Panasa-Saksaganskogo-.html |access-date=20 March 2022 }}</ref>

==References==
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===Sources===
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* {{cite book |last1=Filenko |first1=Taras |author-link1=Taras Filenko |last2=Bulat |first2=Tamara |author-link2=Tamara Bulat |year=2001 |title=The World of Mykola Lysenko: Ethnic Identity, Music, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Ukraine |publisher=Ukraine Millennium Foundation |location=Edmonton |isbn=978-966-530-045-8 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Katchanovski |first1=Ivan |author-link1=Ivan Katchanovski |last2=Kohut |first2=Zenon E. |last3=Nebesio |first3=Bohdan Y. |last4=Yurkevich |first4=Myroslav |year=2013 |title=Historical Dictionary of Ukraine |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location=Plymouth |isbn=978-08108-7-847-1 |edition=2nd |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=-h6r57lDC4QC}} }}
* {{cite encyclopedia |last=Kryzhanivsky |first=Stepan Andriyovich |date=2 March 2022 |title=Ukraine |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |publisher=[[Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.]] |location=Chicago |access-date=18 March 2022 |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine }}
* {{cite web |last=Predota |first=Georg |author-link=Georg Predota |date=14 March 2022 |title=Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912): The Father of Ukrainian Music |website=Interlude.hk |url=https://interlude.hk/mykola-lysenko-the-father-of-ukrainian-music/ }}
* {{cite encyclopedia |last=Spencer |first=Jennifer |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Lysenko, Mykola Vytaliyovych |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.17272 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000017272 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}
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