The dissertation is a historical and pedagogical study on the problem of pedagogical personology, in which the content of musical-pedagogical activities and pedagogical ideas of the outstanding composer, teacher, folklorist, musicsocial activist Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovich has fully been disclosed. The socio-historical and socio-cultural contexts of the formation of M. Leontovychʼs pedagogical views have been characterized. The results of the analysis of historical and pedagogical sources and archival materials made it possible to state that the shaping of M. Leontovychʼs pedagogical worldview, his formation as an innovative teacher, methodologist and, one of the founders of the national system of music education in Ukraine took place in the difficult period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The experience of outstanding composers, teachers and, musical and public figures M. Lysenko, K. Stetsenko, B. Yavorskyi in music education organisation significantly influenced his pedagogical thinking shaping. The professional genesis of the pedagogue was determined by the following factors upbringing in a hereditary family of clergymen, studies in institutions of spiritual education, in particular, the Shargorod Theological School, the Kamianets-Podilskyi Theological Seminary (lessons in I. Lepekhin, Yu. Bohdanov), the St. Petersburg Court Chapel; private lessons with B. Yavorskyi; cooperation with experienced teachers-practitioners (M. Lysenko, K. Stetsenko, O. Koshyts, P. Kozytskyi, B. Yavorskyi, etc.); self-education, etc. Familiarity with the theory of modal rhythm of professor B. Yavorskyi, creative achievements of domestic teachers and advanced Western European music- 11 pedagogical systems was of great importance for the formation of pedagogical ideas of M. Leontovych. The content of the music-pedagogical activity of a teacher has been clarified in the Chukiv two-class school, the theological school in the city of Tyvriv, the church teacherʼs school in the city of Vinnytsia, the railway school of the Grishino station, the Tulchyn diocesan womenʼs school, the Music and Drama Institute named after M. Lysenko,the labor school in the city Tulchyn. It has been proven that M. Leontovych was an outstanding national artistpedagogue from the end of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th century, a universal personality who combined various types of creative activity – pedagogical (educational and methodical), composing, conducting, folkloristic, cultural and educational. Each of the types of activity is imbued with the national character of creativity, the “Ukrainian idea” of building schooling, music, choral art, folk culture, and the state. It has been found that M. Leontovych managed to lay the foundations of national music pedagogy.
