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Ilyashenko, Andrei

Ilyashenko andrei

ILYASHENKO, Andrei Stepanovich (b. 1884, St. Petersburg; d. November 12, 1954, Brussels)—composer and pedagogue. After graduating from the Imperial Alexander Lyceum in St. Petersburg, he received his musical education at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied under Maximillian Steinberg, among others. He performed his military service in the elite Life Guards Dragoon Regiment, and afterwards served in the editorial department of the State Duma. He began composing before the revolution. His "Hymns from the Liturgy" for mixed choir, dedicated to the Church of Sts. Andrew and Martha in the village of Afanasevka, were published by P. Jurgenson in 1912; the same publisher issued a collection comprising eight romances.

During the First World War, he was a member of the Red Cross detachment of the active army. In 1919 is known to have been in Taganrog, then in 1922—in Chisinau, and afterwards left Russia. From 1923 he lived in Brussels, fully devoting himself to musical pursuits. He taught at the Brussels Conservatory and also for two years at the Toronto Conservatory (Canada). He wrote orchestral and choral-orchestral works in the genre of cantatas and oratorios, made arrangements of Russian folk songs and dances, and at the same time continued to compose church hymns. He also composed works for organ, ballets, and piano preludes. His works frequently appeared on programs of such symphony orchestras as the Belgian Royal Opera and National Radio, and orchestras under the batons of Leopold Stokowski in Philadelphia and Victor Kolar in Detroit. Ilyashenko died in poverty and was buried at the Jucle Cemetery in Brussels.

Ilyashenko’s sacred compositions written outside his homeland were published by Archpriest Nikolaj Vieglajs in the series “Orthodox Christian Music Library” (Berkeley, California).

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Il011

Dostoino estʹ

It Is Truly Fitting

Chant melody traditionally attributed to Tsar Feodor I Ioannovich

SATB

Music Library of an Orthodox Christian / Publisher: Archpr. N. Vieglajs. Berkeley, 1962

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Izhe kheruvimy

Let us who mystically represent the cherubim

Greek Chant

The Cherubic Hymn

SATB

Music Library of an Orthodox Christian / Publisher: prot. N. Viegleis. Berkeley, 1972

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Pesnopeniia iz Liturgii sv. Ioanna Zlatousta

Hymns from the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

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Slava i Edinorodnyi Syne

Glory and Only-begotten Son

Op. 6, No. 1

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Vo Tsarstvii Tvoem

In Thy kingdom

Op. 6, No. 2

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Priidite, poklonimsia i Gospodi, spasi blagochestivyia

Come, Let Us Worship and O Lord, save

Op. 6, No. 3

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Sviatyi Bozhe

Holy God

Op. 6, No. 4

Trisagion

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Kheruvimskaia pesn'

The Cherubic Hymn

Op. 6, No. 5

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Prositelʹnaia ekteniia, «Ottsa i Syna» i «Milostʹ mira»

Litany of Supplication, "Father, Son" and A Mercy of Peace

Op. 6, No. 6

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Tebe poem

We Hymn Thee

Op. 6, No. 7a

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Tebe poem

We Hymn Thee

Op. 6, No. 7b

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Dostoino estʹ

It Is Truly Fitting

Op. 6, No. 8

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Otche nash

The Lord's Prayer

Op. 6, No. 9

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Videkhom svet istinnyi; Mnogoletstvovanie

We have seen the true light; Polychronion

Op. 6, No. 10

Hymn at the appearance of the Communion Gifts

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Stikhira na Khvalitekh

Sticheron at the Praises

Znamenny Chant

Sticheron at the Praises, Tone 7

SATB

Music Library of an Orthodox Christian / Publisher: Archpr. N. Vieglajs, Berkeley, 1976

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Svete tikhii

Gladsome Light

SA(div)T(div)B(div)

Music Library of an Orthodox Christian / Publisher: Archpr. N. Vieglajs, Berkeley, 1972

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Il012

Svetilen na Blagoveshchenie

Exapostilarion to the Annunciation of the Theotokos

Ezhe ot veka dnesʹ poznavaetsia

SATB

Music Library of an Orthodox Christian / Publisher: Archpr. N. Vieglajs, Berkeley, 1962

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Il015

V Chermnem mori

In the Red Sea of old

Znamenny Chant

Theotokion Dogmatikon, Tone 5

SAT(div)B(div)

Music Library of an Orthodox Christian / Publisher: Archpr. N. Vieglajs, Berkeley, 1974

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