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This article discusses the role of music in the stories of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol that take place in Ukraine. The musical examples used refer to a selection of stories that were pub-lished in the collections Ukrajinske povesti (Ukrainian stories) from 1943, translated into Slo-vene language by Franc Terseglav, and stories that were published under the title Malo-ruske povesti in the book Izginulo pismo translated by Urša Zabukovec in 2010. By citing and analyzing examples of music from the mentioned stories, the aim is to find out how music is involved in Gogol's prose, in which situations it is used and what it expresses. In addi-tion, the second part of the article mentions examples of operas whose librettos are based on Gogol's Ukrainian stories. One of the composers who wrote such an opera, is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who was also of Ukrainian origin by his ancestors. He spent a lot of time in Ukraine and in his work, he used Ukrainian folk music as one of the sources of inspiration. Keywords: Gogol; Ukraine; Tchaikovsky and Ukraine; Folk songs and dances
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