Verluste des ukrainischen Musiklebens in der Periode der „Hingerichteten Renaissance“: 1930er Jahre und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg
Losses of Ukrainian Musical Life in the 1930s and After the World War II: the “Executed Renaissance”

Summary/Abstract: The essay describes the tragic events of the Ukrainian musical culture in the period of Stalin’s terror. The author explains – from a social and political perspective – the reasons why Ukrainian art and the Ukrainian intelligentsia had been subjected to repression. Most of the prominent artists were murdered; other examples of reprisal are considered, against the director, actor, public figure Les Kurbas, and against choreographer, composer, manager Vasyl Verkhovynets. The cruel extinction of blind kobza-players under Kharkiv is also described. Even after World War II, repressions against Ukrainian artists hadn’t been stopped, as we find out from the case of the composer Vasyl Barvinsky.

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