THE PERSONALITY OF NESTOR NYZHANKIVSKYI THROUGH THE MEMOIR PREPRINTS OF THE «KRAKIVSKI VISTI» NEWSPAPER (CRACOW NEWS)

Abstract

Purpose of the study – to analyze the publications dedicated to the Ukrainian composer Nestor Nyzhankivskyi on the pages of the Krakow-Lviv newspaper Krakivski Visti to characterize the thematic and content of the memorial newspaper materials of Ukrainian cultural and artistic figures of Eastern Galicia: Vasyl Barvinskyi, Volodymyr Baltarovych and Roman Kupchynskyi and to introduce them into Ukrainian scientific cultural and musicological circulation. The following methods are used in the study: historicism – to determine the objectivity, reliability and comprehensiveness of the published memoir printed word; analytical – to consider the source study value of the thematic and descriptive content of the memoir preprints of the mentioned authors; biographical – to analyze the little-known pages of Nestor Nyzhankivskyi’s life work; content analysis – to consider the informational personalized narrative; systematization method – used to summarize the analytical analysis and outline conclusions. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time memoir publications about N. Nyzhankivskyi by V. Barvinskyi, V. Baltarovych and R. Kupchynskyi are reviewed, for the first time the genre of preprints is defined as examples of memoir journalism, and little-known biographical pages of the composer's life are characterized. Based on the scientific analysis, the following conclusions are made: newspaper reports of N. Nyzhankivskyi's contemporaries on the pages of the diary «Krakivski Visti» contain rich personalized historiographical and source material that deepens the artistic portrait of the outstanding Ukrainian composer; the sociocultural informational content of the preprints demonstrates their scientific value as documents that reproduce and state the rich spiritual sphere of life in the social and public environment of twentieth-century Eastern Galicia; memorial newspaper publications of personal origin, in particular about the founder of national art N. Nyzhankivskyi, are a historical literary monument of Ukraine's social development.