Derghavniy muzichno-dramatichniy іnstitut іmenі M. V. Lisenka

He was born on January 21st under Art. Art. (February 4, BC) In 1880 in the village of Khmeliv (now Sumy region) [K. Kvitka himself repeatedly claimed to have been born in Kyiv, including in the Autobiography below] in a family of descendants of Ukrainian Cossacks (in a number of publications it is written about blood relations with the family of G. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko, a well-known Ukrainian writer, but this does not correspond to the testimony of Clement Kvitka himself from the Autobiography, which is kept in the archive of the Musical Culture Museum named after M. Glinka in Moscow). His mother was from the village of Fastivtsi, which is located in the village of Khustyanka, Smilovskaya volost. Local historian Theodosius Sakhno in the book History of the Bold testified that in 1879 Maria Mikhailovna Fastivtsi, who lived in the village of Fastivka of Smilyansk parish, married the head of the Khmelnytsky post station Vasyl Kvitka, and in the following 1880 gave birth to a son Kliment Vasylivka, who was born in 1900. .