Mykola Lysenko

A member of the Russian Musical Society in the 1870s, Lysenko was not recognized and essentially shunned by the Society in his later years because of his political views. Early in his life, Lysenko studied piano with his mother and by the age of nine was in Kiev studying with figures like Panochini and Nejnkevic. As a serious student of music he was afforded an opportunity to study with Wolner, Dmitriev and Wilczyk and traveled to Leipzig to study with Reinecke and Richter. Later Lysenko was in St Petersburg learning orchestration from Rimsky-Korsakov. His music contains a gre...