page_title: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (Leontovych)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (Leontovych) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Kiev Pechersk Lavra / Kiev Monastery of the Caves, in Kiev, Ukraine. View from Dnepr river. Deutsch: Kiewer Höhlenkloster, Kiew, Ukraine. Sicht vom Fluss Dnepr.
context_page_description: The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is the musical setting of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom by Mykola Leontovych. Consistent with Orthodox tradition, in which service is sung exclusively a cappella, the piece is set for unaccompanied choir and soloist. It was first performed in the Mykolaiv Cathedral at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra on May 22, 1919, with Leontovych himself conducting.
context_section_description: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is the most commonly performed liturgy in the Eastern Church. The liturgy was developed into a distinct musical genre in the eastern tradition, as the mass was in western traditions. Some composers with well-known liturgies, besides Leontovych himself, include Mykola Dyletsky, Artem Vedel, Dmytro Bortnianskiy, Maksym Berezovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Peter Tchaikovsky, Pavel Chesnokov, among others.
  Mykola Leontovych had a professional theological education from the theological seminary in Kamianets-Podilskiy, and spent a portion of his career as a priest. When the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church was established and recognized in 1918, Leontovych joined in the movement. His musical output began to reflect this as he started to publish works of a religious nature such as "На воскресіння Христа" (On the Resurrection of Christ), "Хваліте ім’я Господнє" (Praise ye the name of the Lord), and "Світе тихий" (Oh quiet light).
  Leontovych completed the liturgy in February 1919 and conducted the debut performance of the work on May 19 of the same year in the Mykolaiv Cathedral in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, (a cathedral dedicated to the founding of the first parish of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church). The Mykolaiv Cathedral no longer exists, having been destroyed by the Bolsheviks.
caption: View of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra from the Dnepr River currently. The Mykolaiv Cathedral, where the liturgy was first performed in 1919, no longer exists.
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