OLHA TSIPANOVSKA AND STANISLAV LIUDKEVYCH: ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF CONTACTS

Abstract

The article analyzes the life and oeuvre of one of the first professional Ukrainian female pianists in Galicia, Olha Kypriianivna (Kuperianivna) Tsipanovska, as well as the relationship of the Przemyśl figure with Stanislav Liudkevych through her 62 letters to the Ukrainian composer and other official documents, concert programs, and photographs. The author examines the correspondence of Olha Tsipanovska to Stanislav Liudkevych from the period 1911–1933. It is considered the first documentary evidence of their contacts, which refers to S. Liudkevych’s study years of study at the Lviv University, many musical and public events, which found a response in the correspondence of Olha Tsipanovska to the Ukrainian musicologist. The letters have a purely business nature: they lack details of the personal and private life of both artists, although the business-like nature of the communication is characterized by warmth, sincerity, respect of the letters to the addressee and his authority for the author of the letters. Stanislav Liudkevych and Olha Tsipanovska express their warmth and sincerity to each other. The study of their relations revealed the following main directions of their contacts: the music-social and the music-pedagogical realms.