NATIONAL AND PATRIOTIC CREATIVITY OF ISYDOR VOROBKEVYCH: A SYNTHESIS OF EUROPEAN MODELS AND UKRAINIAN ARCHETYPES

Abstract

The article deals with the choral works of Isydor Vorobkevych as the brightest representative of the Ukrainian musical culture of Bukovyna in the mid-nineteenth century. Its importance in the context of the formation of the patriotic consciousness of Ukrainians in Bukovyna and the development of Ukrainian musical culture in the region is emphasised. The creative and life path of I. Vorobkevych is presented in the socio-historical context that influenced the formation of his individual style. The article emphasises the importance of Isidor Vorobkevych’s activity in the cultural life of nineteenth-century Bukovyna. Being the first professional composer of Bukovyna, as well as a poet and teacher, he significantly contributed to the development of the artistic life of the region. The article examines the adaptation of the German Liedertafel style in the composer’s choral music, which most consistently embodied the composer’s patriotic ideas. “Bukovynian Liedertafel” is examined on the example of three choral compositions by I. Vorobkevych, in particular, “What will the old Prut say?”, “Dear Bukovyna” and “Tsar-River our Dnipro”. Since Isydor Vorobkevych was engaged in literary activity, the article briefly reviews one of the artist’s most famous poems “Native Language” as a kind of creative credo, consonant with the content of the above-mentioned choruses. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to highlight some aspects of the synthesis of national and Western European origins in I. Vorobkevych’s choral works. The scientific novelty of the article lies in clarifying the connections between I. Vorobkevych’s choral works, which present national ideals and rely on Ukrainian folk-song phrases, and the style of German Liedertafel and the adaptation of elements of the musical and expressive system typical of Western European Romanticism and Biedermeier. The methodology of the article is based on the use of the historical method in the study of the development of Bukovyna’s art in the second half of the nineteenth century, and the analytical method in the consideration of his choral compositions. The works of Isydor Vorobkevych are studied in the works of I. Hlibovytskyi, Y. Kaplienko-Iliuk, M. Novakovych, P. Nikonenko, etc.