faces to say goodbye to oleksandr kozarenko , a prominent composer and pianist as a musicologist, kozyrenkoked in the genres of symphonic, opera, ballet, choral, chamber-instrumental, vocal, and theater music and created musical accompaniment for more than 50 theater performances . it was the chamber cantata kozarenka pero mertvopetlyuyu , the premiere of which took place in 1994 in lviv , that revealed new facets of the talents of vasyl slipak of the ukrainian opera the singer, soloist of the paris national opera, who died in the russian-ukrainian war , the tall, dying oleksandr kozarenko , close friends, colleagues, artists for us came to visit oleksandr kozyrenko is both very close friendly memories and at the same time an understanding of his greatness, his scale, creative personality as a composer, as a performer, as an organizer of artistic life, as a researcher, and it is very difficult to say goodbye to him because it is premature and definitely unexpected and we simply take with us what he left us that legacy, and now we have to continue to live with it and remember it with great g