Matsiyevsky Igor, *28 June 1941 Kharkiv, Ukrainian composer, conductor, ethnomusicologist-organologist, and teacher. In 1965 he graduated from the Lviv Conservatory (composition under A. Sołtys and A. Nikodemowicz, ethnomusicology under W. Hoszowski); he continued his composition studies in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) under O. Yevlakhov, where in 1970 he earned a PhD based on his thesis on Hutsul violin composers, followed by a habilitation in 1990 and a professorship in 2001.
In the 1970s, he taught composition at the Ivano-Frankivsk Music School then (1970–90) worked at the Mussorgsky Leningrad Music School. From 1992 to 1994, he taught composition and instrumentation at the Lviv Conservatory (now the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy). He currently works in Saint Petersburg and teaches composition at the conservatory in Petrozavodsk. He has been a guest lecturer in many countries, and his publications have appeared in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Germany, England, the USA, Estonia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Poland, among others.
In his academic work, Maciejewski focuses on instruments and traditional folk music, its specific characteristics and performance practice. He combines empirical descriptions of instruments with analyses of their cultural context. He pays particular attention to the personalities of musicians and their activities in local communities, the perception of music, the development of musical transcription and understanding of traditional teaching methods (ethnopedagogy), and emphasises the importance of improvisation. He studies the musical problems of the Belarusian, Polish and Ukrainian diasporas; he has conducted field research in the Hutsul region, the Boyko region, Bukovina, Polesia, Podolia, Volhynia, Lithuania, eastern and southern Poland, several regions of Russia and Central Asia; he has revived research on the Finno-Ugric peoples and their instruments.
As a composer, Macijewski is the author of great symphonic and choral works, as well as film scores. He uses a variety of compositional techniques: sonorism, neo-serialism, decomposition, punctualism, combining them with the melody, tonality and rhythm (polyrhythm) typical of folk music; he writes vocal works to texts by Ukrainian poets (T. Shevchenko, B.-I. Antonych, A. Oles), Belarusian poets (M. Bogdanovich, V. Tavlai, S. Surynovich, N. Artymovich, A. Harun), Russian poets (M. Voloshin, V. Gippius, A. Kondratiev, H. Sapgir) and Polish poets (W. Broniewski, J. Brzechwa).
Works:
around 150 articles, including:
Zum Programmcharakter in instrumentaler Volksmusik, “Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft” XIV, 1972
Issledowatielskije problemy transkripeyi instrumientalnoj narodnoj muzyki, in: Tradicyonnoje i sowriemiennoje narodnoje muzykalnoje iskusstwo, Moscow 1976
Narodnyj muzykalnyj instrumient i mietodołogija jego issledowanija, in: Aktualnyje problemy sowriemiennoj folkloristiki, Leningrad 1980
Formirowanije sistiemno-etnofoniczeskogo mietoda w organołogii, in: Mietody izuczenija folkłora, Leningrad 1983
Troista muzyka. K woprosu o tradicyonnych instrumientalnych ansamblach, “Artes populares” XIV, Budapest 1985
Tradicyjna instrumientalna muzyka ta prostorowe mistectwo, in: Ukrainśka muzyka. Tradicii ta suczasnist’, Lviv 1993
Narodna instrumentalna kultura tradicyjnoj pochronnoj obriadnosti Huculiw, in: Czetwerta konferencja doslidnykiw narodnoj muzyky czerwonoruskych (halicko – wolodymyrskych) ta sumiżnych zemel, Lviv 1994
Pierceptiwnoje prostranstwo w muzykalnoj architiektonikie, in: Wybór i soczetanije. Otkrytaja forma, Petrozavodsk 1995
O roli instrumienta w profiessionalnoj diejatielnosti narodnogo muzykanta, in: Tradicija ir dabartis, vol. 2, Klaipėda 1998
Muzykal’nyje instrumenty Podliasz’ja, in: Materiały k enciklopedii muzykal’nych instrumentow narodow mira, Rossijskij Instytut Istorii Iskusstw, Saint Petersburg, 1998
Huculska trembita, in: Huculszczyzna, jej kultura i badacze. Międzynarodowa konferencja naukowa w ramach Festiwalu Huculskiego “Za głosem trembity”, 2006, ed. J. Stęszewski, J. Cząstka-Kłapyta, Krakow 2008
Muzyka huculska w kontekście międzykulturowym, in: Huculi, Bojkowie, Łemkowie. Tradycja i współczesność. Stanisław Vincenz – po stronie dialogu. W 120. rocznicę urodzin Stanisława Vincenza, ed. J. Cząstka-Kłapyta, Krakow 2008
Editions:
Narodnyje muzykalnyje instrumienty i instrumientalnaja muzyka, 2 vols., Moscow 1987–88
Woprosy instrumientowiedienija, 3 vols., Saint Petersburg 1993–98.
Woprosy instrumentowjedenia, vol. 3 Rossijskij Institut Istorii Iskusstw, Saint Petersburg 1997
Pietierburgskaja Muzykalnaja Połonistika, 2nd edition, Saint Petersburg 2002
Ihri j spiwhołossia. Kontonacija, Ternopil 2002
Pietierburgskaja Muzykalnaja Połonistika, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg 2003
Matieriały k «Enciklopedii muzykalnych instrumentow narodow mira», 2nd edition, Saint Petersburg 2003
Muzyczni instrumenty Huculiw, Vinnytsia 2012
Woprosy instrumientowiedienija, vol. 9 Rossijskij Instytut Istorii Iskusstw, Saint Petersburg 2014
Compositions:
Violin concerto 1966
Symfonia-koncert for violin and orchestra, 1983
Concerto for 3 pianos, 1999
chamber works (quintet for wind instruments, two string quartets, sonatas for violin, cello, and other instruments)
numerous choral works, including Our Father in Belarussian (London 1994) and Ukranian, 5 hymns for a mixed choir, Almaty 1999
solo songs accompanied by various instruments (piano, flute, cello, organ)
oratorium, opera
music for 8 films, including the ballet film Faraoh 1998/99 (Grand Prix at the 1999 International Film Festival in Berlin)
arrangements of Jewish folk ballads (in Yiddish), English folk songs, and folk songs form the Lemko, Hutsul, and Podlasie regions
