TURNING OVER THE PAGES OF THE “PERSONAL CASE” OF VASYL BARVINSKYI

Abstract

The article deals with the "Personal case" of the outstanding Ukrainian composer, pianist, teacher, conductor, musical-critical and public figure Vasyl Barvinskyi (1888–1963), who devoted his whole life to serving his people and national culture. The life and work of Vasyl Barvinsky are researched and continue to be studied by well-known and authoritative scholars, musicologists, pedagogues and performers. So, nowadays in Ukraine a monograph on Vasyl Barvinskyi has already been published by S. Pavlyshyn and O. Nimylovych; two scientific collections about some features of his life and work are published by O. Smoliak in Ternopil as well as three editions by V.Grabovskyi in Drohobych. The works by N. Kashkadamova, L. Kyianovska, O. Kozarenko, I. Kovaliv, A. Rudnytskyi, B. Tyhoniuk, L. Filonenko, M. Tsegelska-Dmitruk and others are of great importance. The creative works of the artist are heard at a concert stage more and more often, and numerous scientific-practical conferences are devoted to his life and work. In the history of Ukrainian musical culture Vasyl Barvinskyi is known as an outstanding composer, talented pedagogue-pianist, performer, scientist, musicologist, music critic and public figure. For a long time, the name of the composer was forgotten, because he was imprisoned after the incriminated case to him by bolshevytskyi regime and together with his wife Nataliia, the daughter of the famous scientist Ivan Puliui, were sent to the Mordovian camps (1948-1958). Let’s turn over the "Personal Case" of the composer, which is kept in the Central State Archive-Museum of Literature and Arts of Ukraine (F. 651. Description 2, case 58 – 25 pages). It includes 11 documents. Proposed documents are written in accordance with all the canons of that "disciplinary" style. We offer them to the reader with slight abbreviations (the publication preserves the features of the language style of the materials).