| GPS | (48.295914; 25.925049) |
| district | Chernivtsi |
| region | Shevchenkivsky |
| locality | Chernivtsi |
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| category | Monuments |
| year | 1 991р. |
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Sydir Vorobkevych (1836-1903) – Ukrainian Bukovinian writer, composer, musical and cultural figure, an Orthodox priest, teacher, editor of Bukovyna journals, artist. Born on May 5, 1836 in Chernivtsi in a family of the teacher of philosophy and theology. Becoming an orphan as a child, he and his sister and younger brother Grygoriy, who has also become a famous socio-cultural activist and writer in Bukovyna, was brought up by his grandparents in the town of Kitsman. Here he received his primary education. Sydir Vorobkevych studied in Chernivtsi gymnasium, then - in the seminary, which he graduated in 1861. In gymnasium he began writing poems and compose music for them. Then he was a priest in the villages of Bukovyna, where he studied folklore and life of local people. Sydir has obtained musical education privately at professor of Vienna conservatory F. Krenn. In 1868 he passed the exam for the title of teacher of singing and choir regent at the Vienna conservatory. From 1867 he taught singing in Chernivtsi seminary and gymnasium, and since 1875 – at theological faculty of Chernivtsi university. As a composer he created literary songs and psalms, composed choral works, solo songs and operettas, wrote tunes for his own poems. Author of numerous and diverse in genre literature and musical works – songs and choruses, romances, operettas. He wrote the music to the words of T. Shevchenko, Y. Fedkovych, I. Franko, V. Alexandri, M. Eminescu, V. Bumbak. He also performed as a music teacher; in particular, an outstanding Austrian musicologist of Ukrainian origin Eusebius Mandychevsky was his student. Sydir Vorobkevych died on September 19, 1903 in Chernivtsi, where he is buried. Author of the project of the monument – sculptor M. Lysakivsky.
