More than 120 composers, including Peter Tchaikovsky,
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Sergei Rachmaninoff, gave
musical interpretations of almost 1500 works of Taras
Shevchenko (Тарас
Шевченко
;). Mykola Lysenko alone set 90 of his works to music.
Shevchenko was politically convicted and persecuted by
the Russian tsar and his police for explicitly
promoting the independence of Ukraine, writing poems in
the Ukrainian languag...(+)
More than 120 composers, including Peter Tchaikovsky,
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Sergei Rachmaninoff, gave
musical interpretations of almost 1500 works of Taras
Shevchenko (Тарас
Шевченко
;). Mykola Lysenko alone set 90 of his works to music.
Shevchenko was politically convicted and persecuted by
the Russian tsar and his police for explicitly
promoting the independence of Ukraine, writing poems in
the Ukrainian language. His literary heritage is
regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian
literature and, to a large extent, the modern Ukrainian
language.