The role of the Lysenko dynasty in the formation of the choral school in Ukraine (to the 80th anniversary of Vitaly Romanovich Lysenko)

The article investigates the sources of formation of conducting skills of Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko, and this is done not only in retrospect of the creative path of the individual, but above all – in the context of the birth and further development of a separate Ukrainian conducting school. A special role in this process was given to the years of study of Nikolai Vitalyevich at the Leipzig Conservatory. In particular, the structure of the artistic environment in which Lysenko was not just a listener but also an active participant is analyzed. The conductor's component in the creative work of Mykola Vitaliyovych's teachers was also determined, after which the conductor's "genealogical tree" was built, from which the conducting of the Ukrainian artist originates. And this allows us to declare the main vector of generation of Ukrainian conducting art is the European vector, which was later adapted by Lysenko and his students in the domestic cultural space. And later it was presented again in Europe and the world due to the active conducting activity of one of the brightest followers of Mykola Vitaliyovych, the genius Oleksandr Koshyts. Such a little-known and unexplored page of Ukrainian cultural life as the conducting activities of Lysenko's direct descendants is also considered. In particular, we are talking about his son Ostap Mykolayovych and great-grandson Vitaliy Romanovych Lysenko, who left a noticeable mark in this field of national musical art. But in this way they continued Lysenko's artistic principles, laid down by him in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.