“Every Kind of Art Began to Flourish”: Ukrainian music in the modernist context

Although Ukrainian musical modernism has yet to receive the scholarly attention it deserves, composers living in Lviv, Kyiv and Kharkiv between 1917 1937 produced an abundance of compelling music. Not only is this rich body work relatively unexplored terms its individual contributions 20th century compositional movements such as impressionism works Vasyl Barvinsky Mykola Roslavets; expressionism Borys Liatoshynsky, Jozef Koffler, Roslavets Stefania Turkevych; folklorism music Levko Revutsky, Boris Pylyp Kozytsky; dodecaphony compositions by Koffler Yefim Holyshev, but taken a whole, diversity new aesthetics styles which engaged reveals unique openness all forms experimentation. Just modernist western centers Vienna, Berlin, Paris, New York were shaped local audiences aesthetics, impulse engage with every revolutionary movement while reclaiming suppressed national past generated own distinct identity. These tendencies towards both diverse experimentation regeneration folk culture have already been identified scholars visual art, literature, theater, characterize much existing literature on modernism. The addition case studies narrative modern period fills important lacuna cultural history.