Mykola Leontovych

The quiet genius who took a simple folk melody and surgically upgraded it with harmonies so that it sounds like twelve angels racing each other. No wonder it has become a seasonal anthem which gives us goosebumps every December.

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13 December 1877
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Composer, conductor
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Ukraine

#lessons

Even the gentlest composers can shake empires with the right notes.

#whatif

...Leontovych got royalties for
“Carol of the Bells”?


He would have been able to afford living in a three-stored mansion shaped like a violin, but would likely have spent the money on sponsoring new choirs.🎵