Stepan Artemovych Pasiuha (11 December 1862

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– 1933Pasiuha, Stepan
Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Accessed 30 May 2022) was originally from the town of Velyki Pysarivky, Bohodukhiv county, in the

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of the

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. He learned to play the

bandura A bandura ( uk, банду́ра) is a Ukrainian plucked string folk instrument. It combines elements of the zither and lute and, up until the 1940s, was also often referred to by the term kobza. Early instruments (c. 1700) had 5 to 12 string ...

from Dmytro Trochenko (Trottchenko). He had seven '' dumy'' (sung epic poems) in his repertoire: *1.

Marusia Bohuslavka Marusia Bohuslavka was a legendary heroine who lived in Ukraine in the 16th or 17th century. She is primarily known from many Ukrainian epic ballads ('' dumas''), usually referred to as ''Duma about Marusya Bohuslavka'', and other Ukrainian folkl ...

*2. The Widow and her three sons *3. The Sister and Brother *4. Oleksiy Popovych *5. Captives lament *6.

Ivan Konovchenko Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgar ...

, the Widow's Son *7. The Escape of the Three Brothers from Oziv. Left and Right - Portraits of S. Pasiuha from 1910 from Slastion's collection of Kobzar portraits. The first three ''dumy'' were recorded on phonograph by

Opanas Slastion Opanas Heorhiiovych Slastion ( uk, Опанас Георгійович Сластіон, – September 24, 1933) was a Ukrainian graphic artist, painter, and ethnographer. He was born in the port town of Berdiansk (now Ukraine) on the Berdyans ...

and sent to

Filaret Kolessa Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa ( uk, Філарет Михайлович Колесса; 17 July 18713 March 1947) was a Ukrainian composer ethnographer, folklorist, musicologist and literary critic. He was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific So ...

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. Filaret Kolessa wrote that : "In his recitations, sung with a nice baritone, we hear the importance of the recitative above the melody. The singing and playing of Stepan Pasiuha makes a nice artistic impression." Yehor Movchan was a student of Pasiuha, and highly praised him as a teacher of singing and playing, and also as a ''

kobzar A ''kobzar'' ( ua, кобзар, pl. kobzari ua, кобзарі) was an itinerant Ukrainian bard who sang to his own accompaniment, played on a multistringed bandura or kobza. Tradition Kobzars were often blind and became predominantly so b ...

'' who demonstrated great artism in his performance of ''dumy''. He often spoke: "there probably was never such a ''kobzar'' like Pasiuha and in the future there never will be." In 1910, Opanas Slastion painted two portraits of the ''kobzar''. In 1915 he was arrested and spent time incarcerated. Photo: (left) Pasiuha in 1910 Photo: (right) Pasiuha with his student Hryhory Kozhushko in 1913 at the

Poltava Poltava (, ; uk, Полтава ) is a city located on the Vorskla River in central Ukraine. It is the capital city of the Poltava Oblast (province) and of the surrounding Poltava Raion (district) of the oblast. Poltava is administrative ...

Artisans exhibition. From graphic sources his bandura had: Portrait 1 - 4 basses and 14 treble strings (16 pegs) Portrait 2 - 6 basses and 14 treble strings

Students

* Hryhory Kozhushko * Yehor Movchan *

Heorhy Tkachenko Heorhiy Kyrylovych Tkachenko ( uk, Георгій Кирилович Ткаченко; 5 May 1898 in Hlushkovo, Kursk region of the Russian Empire – 1993 in Kyiv, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian bard and bandurist. Biography Tkachenko was able to ...

Notes

Sources

* Mishalow, V. and M.: ''Ukrains'ki kobzari-bandurysty'', Sydney, Australia, 1986

References

Bandurists Kobzars Ukrainian musicians 1933 deaths 1862 births 20th-century Ukrainian musicians {{ukr-musician-stub