Skorulsky, Mykhailo

Skorulsky, Mykhailo [Скорульський, Михайло; Skorul's'kyj, Myxajlo], b 6 September 1887 in Kyiv, d 21 February 1950 in Kyiv. Composer, pedagogue, and music critic; father of Nataliia Skorulska. A graduate in composition from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory (1914), he taught music theory in Zhytomyr (1915–33) and at the Kyiv Conservatory (1933–50). His works include the opera Svichchyne vesillia (Svichka’s Wedding, 1948); the ballets Bondarivna (The Barrelmaker’s Daughter, 1939) and Lisova pisnia (The Forest Song, 1946); the oratorio Holos materi (Mother’s Voice, 1943); two symphonies (1923, 1932); the symphonic poem Mykyta Kozhumiaka (1949); works of choral music and chamber music; incidental music; art songs to poems by Lesia Ukrainka, Pavlo Tychyna, and Volodymyr Sosiura; and arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs. A monograph on him has been written by M. Mykhailov (1960).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]