Yakov Prigozhiy compositions sheet music and chords

Yakov Fedorovich Prigozhiy (1840-1920, Moscow) - Russian pianist, conductor, composer and arranger-accompanist. Leader of Russian and Gypsy choirs, author of over 300 romances, songs, waltzes. Brother of the operetta artist and composer Adolph Prigogine. From 1875 he lived in Moscow. In the 1870s - early 1880s, he directed a number of Gypsy and Russian choirs, for which he created many adaptations of popular romances and urban songs and romances. Prigogue's melodies in some cases were plagiarized works of foreign composers. In particular, the romance "What is this heart" literally repeats a fragment of E. Waldteuffel's waltz "Golden Youth"; Prigogine also borrowed other melodies from him, for example, the romance "Sweetheart".