Mykola Lysenko, I know very little on this composer, anyone who can help fill in the gaps, I would be most grateful.

Mykola Lysenko born in the Ukrine in 1842, one of that area's most important 19th century composers, who founded a musical institute in Kiev in 1904, and who had by then written a number of Operas, drawing on Ukranian legends and the work of the poet T.Shevtshenko.

The spirit of his work was kept alive by succeeding generation of Ukranian composers like Liatochinsky.