Kuziv M. Music-Educational Activity of Zdenek Kominek in Cultural Life of Kamianets-Podilskyi Region of the First Half of the XXth. Century.

General analysis of music-educational activity of the Czech musician Zdenek Rudolfovych Kominek (1882–1950) in Podillia has been carried out in the dissertation, namely, in the cultural life of Kamianets-Podilskyi region of the first half of the XXth century; on the basis of the documents involved, the process of the origin and formation of the art studies searches of the artist has been determined, the peculiarities of performing, pedagogical and public-educational activity of Kominek, his contribution to the development of music culture and education of Podillia region have been shown.The state of development of the issue has been analyzed and the level of its scientific comprehension has been determined, the source base has been assessed (the factual material of the research consists of the materials of the State Archive of Khmelnytskyi region, Kamianets-Podilskyi State City archive, Department of the Rare Book of Kamianets-Podilskyi Ivan Ohiienko National University, Kamianets-Podilskyi State Historical Museum-Reserve, private collections, and numerous periodicals of that time.). All these sources are quite representative and allow to objectively examine the artist’s creative achievements. The analysis of the sources base allowed us to conclude that there is a lack of profound and systematic researches on the creative work of Zdenek Kominek, and also of popular articles and references about him in the light of his culturological activity. The author of the dissertation thinks that the existing works reproduce predominantly the all-Ukrainian context of the emergence and existence of music centers in Podillia region, but they ignore regional artists, whose creativity can fill the gaps and significantly enrich the knowledge of some milestones in the history of Ukrainian musicology. The author notes that the creative work of Kominek was neither studied comprehensively nor even fragmentary.The principles and methods of historical search commonly accepted in modern musical historiography make the theoretical-methodological basis of the dissertation. In the course of analysis of the methodological base it was stated that the introduction of culturological, analytical and systematic approaches is very important for such studies, they made it possible to carry out parallel analysis of the creativity of other artists of Kamianets-Podilskyi region.It is proved that cultural-musical activity developed in the framework of general transformations and was firmly combined with the main components of social life that existed on the territory of Podillia region in the XXth century.