Background
LEONTOVICH, Nilolay was born on December 13, 1877 in village Monastyryok, Podol’sk Province.
LEONTOVICH, Nilolay was born on December 13, 1877 in village Monastyryok, Podol’sk Province.
1899 graduate Kamenets-Podol’sk Theological Seminary. From 1910 studied composition under B. L Ya- vorskiy.
Abandoned intention of theological career and spent his life teaching choral singing in Ukraine (Chukovo, Tul’chin, etc). Recorded and arranged folk songs. 1904 passed Church choir precentor’s examination in St. Petersburg.
1905 active in rcvol movement in Yekaterinoslav Province. 1916 first musical work (arrangement of folk song “A Generous Man”) performed in Kiev. 1919 began to teach at lysenko Musical Drama Institute.
Kiev; also worked for Ukraine People’s Commissariat of Education. Composed some 200 classical arrangements of folk songs.