Editing Maxim Berezovsky (section)

{{Short description|Classical-period composer (c.1745–1777)}}
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{{Infobox classical composer
| name                = Maxim Berezovsky 
| image               = Maxim Berezovsky frame removed.jpg
| image_size          = 220px
| caption             = A 20th-century portrait of Berezovsky
| native_name         = {{lang|ru|Максим Березовский}}
| birth_date          = {{circa|1745}}
| birth_place         = [[Hlukhiv|Glukhov]], Cossack Hetmanate, Russian Empire
| death_date          = {{OldStyleDate|2 April|1777|24 March}}
| death_place         = [[Saint Petersburg]], Russian Empire
| era                 = [[Classical period (music)|Classical]]
| list_of_works       = <!-- Link to "List of works" subarticles here. Do not list individual pieces. -->
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'''Maxim Sozontovich Berezovsky'''{{refn|1=Alternative transliterations of his name include ''Maksym'' and '' Sozontovych''.<ref name="LubMak">{{cite web |last1=Hajda |first1=Lubomyr A. |last2=Andrij |first2=Makuch |title=Music of Ukraine |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/Music |website=Britannica |access-date=9 July 2024}}</ref>|group=note}} ({{langx|ru|link=no|Максим Созонтович Березовский}} {{Audio|Ru-Maksim-Sazontovich-Berezovsky.ogg|listen}}; {{langx|uk|link=no|Максим Созонтович Березовський}}; {{circa|1745}}{{snd}}{{OldStyleDate|2 April|1777|24 March}}) was a composer of [[Secular music|secular]] and [[Liturgy|liturgical music]], and a conductor and [[opera]] singer, who worked at the [[Saint Petersburg Court Chapel]] in the [[Russian Empire]], but who also spent much of his career in Italy. He made an important contribution in the [[music of Ukraine]]. Together with [[Artemy Vedel]] and [[Dmitry Bortniansky]], both of whom have cited him as an influence, Berezovsky is considered by [[musicologist]]s as one of the three great composers of 18th-century Ukrainian classical music,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kuzma |first1=Marika |title=Bortniansky à la Bortniansky: An Examination of the Sources of Dmitry Bortniansky's Choral Concertos |journal=The Journal of Musicology |date=1996 |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=183–212 |doi=10.2307/763922 |jstor=763922 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/763922 |access-date=1 August 2024 |issn=0277-9269|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kyyanovska |first1=Lyubov |title=Українська музична культура |date=2008 |publisher=Triada Plus |location=Lviv |isbn=978-966-486-024-3 |page=17 |language=uk |trans-title=Ukrainian Musical Culture}}</ref> and one of the Russian Empire's first composers.<ref name="keldysh1966">{{cite journal |last1=Keldysh |first1=Yuri |title=Неизвестная опера русского композитора |journal=Sovetskaya Muzyka |date=1966 |issue=337 |pages=39–50 |access-date=2 August 2024 |url=https://mus.academy/articles/neizvestnaya-opera-russkogo-kompozitora-neutomimyi-prosvetitel}}</ref>

Berezovsky's place of birth and his father's name are known only from verbal accounts.&nbsp;He is traditionally thought to have been educated at the {{Ill|Glukhov Singing School|ru|Глуховская школа пения и инструментальной музыки}}; he may have also attended the&nbsp;[[Kyiv-Mohyla Academy]], although this is uncertain. In 1758, he was accepted as a singer into the capella at&nbsp;[[Oranienbaum, Russia|Oranienbaum]], before being employed at the imperial court of [[Catherine II]] in Saint Petersburg, where he received lessons from the Italian composer&nbsp;[[Baldassare Galuppi]]. In 1769, Berezovsky was sent to study in [[Bologna]]. There he composed secular works, including&nbsp;''[[Demofonte (Berezovsky)|Demofonte]]'', a three-act&nbsp;[[opera seria]] that was the earliest Italian-style opera to be written by a Ukrainian or a Russian composer. He returned to Saint Petersburg in October 1773. The circumstances of his death in 1777 are not documented.&nbsp;

Berezovsky is best known for his choral works, and was one of the creators of the Ukrainian sacred choral style. Few of his compositions are extant, but research in recent decades led to the rediscovery of previously lost works, including three [[symphonies]]. His opera&nbsp;and violin sonata&nbsp;were the first known examples of these genres by an Imperial&nbsp; Russian composer.