Klyment Kvitka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Klyment Kvitka

Ukrainian musicologist and ethnographer

Date of Birth: 23-Jan-1880

Place of Birth: Khmeliv, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 19-Sep-1953

Profession: ethnographer, musicologist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Klyment Vasilyovich Kvitka (Ukrainian: ??????? ?????????? ??????) (1880-1953) was a Ukrainian musicologist and ethnographer, and the husband of poet Lesya Ukrainka.The Kvitka family played an important role in the initiative of the preservation of kobzar music by means of sound recording using the recently invented phonograph.