ASPECTS OF THE ACTIVITY OF THE OUTSTANDING UKRAINIAN VIOLIN ALEXANDER DZIGAR IN CHINA IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE XX CENTURY

Abstract

Finding out the degree of participation in China of violinists from Ukraine in the first half of the twentieth century (stage of formation of Chinese professional violin art), necessary for the study was the analysis of materials from periodical sources and preserved concert posters of this period. During the analysis of these materials it was possible to identify a significant number of personalities of the most active, bright and important for the development of Chinese violin art violinists from Ukraine, who, as it turned out, from the beginning of the twenties century for almost four decades they performed very intense (or less active) concert activities in the cities of the Celestial Empire, taught violin in Chinese educational institutions of various levels, and participated in musical and social work. Among many others, the figure of Oleksandr Dzygar was discovered – a talented but still almost unknown violinist in Ukraine, who made a significant contribution to the professionalization of Chinese violin art at the stage of its formation. The study of the figure and creative activity of Dzygar as a key figure at the stage of formation of Chinese violin art has so far remained out of the attention of researchers and has not been covered in musicological works. So, the purpose of the work is to study aspects of O. Dzygar’s activity and determine his role in the popularization of Ukrainian music works in China in the first half of the twentieth century. The research methodology is based on the combination of biographical, musicological and source-researching methods, which together became important for determining the dominant feature of the national consciousness of the Ukrainian violinist. The scientific novelty appears in a significant addition to the biographical information of O. Dzygar as a performer and popularizer of works by Ukrainian composers in China. Conclusions. Among the Ukrainian musicians of the very large Ukrainian community in Harbin, O. Dzygar became the most prominent and outstanding figure in the process of formation of Chinese chamber and instrumental performance and in the popularization of works of Ukrainian music in China.