Levko Revutsky

Levko Revutsky studied at Gottlieb Walker Gymnasium and Ukrainian National Academy of Music. Training under Reinhold Glière is recorded. Vadym Homoliaka and Leonid Hrabovskyi are recorded as having studied under Levko Revutsky. The recorded working language is Ukrainian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are symphony. Employment is recorded with Ukrainian National Academy of Music. Distinctions recorded are Stalin Prize, Order of Lenin, Hero of Socialist Labour and People's Artist of the USSR.

Levko Mykolayovych Revutsky was born on 20 February [O.S. 8 February] 1889 in Irzhavets, Priluksky Uyezd of the Poltava Governorate (presently in the Chernihiv Oblast) in Ukraine). His father was a trustee of a rural school. The parents of the future composer were well-educated. His musical talent showed up very early and his mother began to teach young Revutsky to play the piano when he hardly was five years old. By age ten, he showed skill at improvisation and had perfect pitch, earning him the nickname "Tuning fork". In 1903, his parents transferred Revutsky to Kiev's Gotlib Valker gymnasium and simultaneously the music school of Mykola Tumanovsky where he studied fortepiano with Mykola Lysenko. Revutsky later recalled, "Lysenko became for me the first example of artistic ideals." Graduating from the gymnasium in 1907, he entered the physic-mathematics faculty of Kiev University. In 1908, Revutsky also entered law school and at the same time renewed piano classes at the Kiev music college run by the Russian Musical Society. He was greatly impressed by visits to Moscow and Saint Petersburg where he attended the theatre and concerts. In three years of studies in the premiere course of the school Revutsky had considerable successes. In 1911 he graduated to the higher level in the class of G. Hodorovsky. Revutsky's studies in the class of this master lasted a few years: from 1911 to 1913 year in musical school, and afterwards in the newly opened Kiev conservatory. In the conservatory, Revutsky simultaneously with his piano studies begins to visit Glière's composition classes. He continued his university studies. The first part of piano sonata (in C minor), sketches for the first symphony, and the prelude of opus four were created at this time. Revutsky graduated from both the university and conservatory in 1916, and went to fight in World War 1.

Demobilized in 1918, Revutsky moved to Pryluky. In 1924, Revutsky was invited to Kiev to work as a teacher at the Lysenko Music-Drama Institute. From this time he gave himself to pedagogical work, initially as teacher, and then as professor of music-theory and performance and composition. In the 1930s Revutsky had considerable achievements as a composer. In addition, he created his music-pedagogical systems. For his merits in the field of culture Revutsky received the title of People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR in 1942, and in 1944 People's Artist of the USSR. In the post-war period he participated in a renewal of artistic-cultural life of the Republic. From 1944 to 1948 he headed the Composers Union of Ukraine. Revutsky was also elected by the deputy of Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR to a number of convocations. In 1950, he undertook the enormous task of editing and preparing Mykola Lysenko's works for publication. In February 1969, in connection with his 80th birthday and for creative merit Levko Revutsky was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. He died on 30 March 1977 in Kiev, and is buried in Baikove Cemetery.

Symphony No. 1 in A major opus 3 (1916–1921, revised 1957) Symphony No. 2 in E major opus 12 (1926–1927, revised 1940 and 1970) Kozachok (Ukrainian folk dance) for orchestra (1929) Piano Concerto in F major (1929) Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 18 (1934)

Piano Sonata Allegro in B minor opus 1 (1912) Three Preludes for piano opus 4 (1914) Two Preludes for piano opus 7 Two Preludes for piano opus 11 (1924) Two Pieces for piano opus 17 (1929)

"The Whole Year" for soloists, chorus and piano (lyrics by Oleksandr Oles) opus 5 (1923) Khustyna, cantata (lyrics T. Shevchenko) for soloists, chorus and piano (1923) Sonechko, folksong-arrangements for voice and piano (1925) Cossack-Songs, folksong-arrangements for voice and piano (1926) Galician Songs, folksong-arrangements for voice and piano opus 14 (1926–1927) Monologue of Taras Bulba for bass and orchestra (lyrics by Maksym Rylsky) (1936) Festive Song for chorus and orchestra (lyrics by Maksym Rylsky) (1949) Song-Ode, vocal-symphonic poem (1957)

Orchestration (re-arrangement and editing of opera and additional composition of overture) of Mykola Lysenko's opera Taras Bulba (with Borys Lyatoshynsky) Piano concerto by Viktor Kosenko

Intermezzo for violin and piano Sonata for Cello Ballade for Cello and Piano (1933) incidental music film music