Editing Maxim Berezovsky (section)

===Education in Glukhov and Kiev===
During the 18th century, as choirs arose in Ukrainian churches, monasteries and schools, composers and singers raised choral music to a high artistic and professional level.{{sfn|Korniy|1998|pp=14{{ndash}}15}} In contrast to the Italian practice of employing [[castrati]], the all-male Capella used [[boy soprano]]s. Ukraine became known as a place to recruit boys with excellent singing voices, and from the 1730s, Russian nobles brought talented youngsters from the region with them to perform at the Capella.{{sfn|Stites|2008|p=97}} From 1738, the {{Ill|Glukhov Singing School|ru|Глуховская школа пения и инструментальной музыки}} was used by the Capella to provide boys with their initial training, before those that were selected were coached as singers at the court in Saint Petersburg.{{sfn|Korniy|1998|p=194}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hlukhiv Singing School |url=https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CH%5CL%5CHlukhivSingingSchool.htm |access-date=16 October 2023 |website=www.encyclopediaofukraine.com}}</ref> When their voices changed, those with the best voices were then trained as adult singers, and freed if they were [[serf]]s. Those not selected generally found work as government employees, or [[chorister]]s in monasteries.{{sfn|Stites|2008|p=97}}

Berezovsky is generally considered to have been a boy chorister at the school in Glukhov.{{sfn|Ritzarev|2006|p=105}} His name does not appear in surviving documents of this institution, but as it was the only one in the [[Russian Empire]] that trained singers for the Imperial Court Choir, it is likely that he was educated there,{{sfn|Ritzarev|1983|p=14}} as were other composers such as [[Artemy Vedel]], [[Hryhorii Skovoroda]], and {{Ill|Gavrilo Rachinsky|uk|Рачинський Гаврило Андрійович}}.{{sfn|Korniy|1998|p=381}} He may have composed three- and four-part [[motets]] as a boy.{{sfn|Kuzma|2001}}

It was asserted by some 19th-century sources that Berezovsky received part of his education at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, but when the academy's documents were made public at the start of the 20th century, Berezovsky's name was not found amongst any of the student lists.{{sfn|Ritzarev|1983|p=15}} There is no documentary confirmation of Berezovsky attending the academy.{{sfn|Karabits|2021|p=17}}