Nosach, Pavlo

Nosach, Pavlo [Носач, Павло; Nosač], b 22 September 1890 in Bovkun, Tarashcha county, Kyiv gubernia, d 20 October 1966 in Kyiv. Kobzar. Orphaned as a child, he was wounded in battle of the First World War in 1915 and lost his sight. He learned to play the kobza in 1928 from Oleksander A. Markevych. His repertoire included folk songs, songs set to the verses of Taras Shevchenko, and his own compositions, such as ‘A Duma about the Great Kobzar.’ During the Second World War his itinerant minstreling helped to strengthen patriotic feelings in Ukraine as well as the resolve to resist the occupying Germans.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]