Adam Mynovych Babii (19 December 1897, Ripky village, Zvenyhorod district, Kyiv province, now Lysiany district, Cherkasy region - 11 December 1937, buried in Bykivnia near Kyiv) was a Ukrainian conductor and musicologist.
In 1913, he graduated from the Kyrylivka Teachers' School, in 1917 - from the Kyiv Teachers' Seminary, and in 1927 - from the conducting and choral faculty of the Kyiv Music and Drama Institute. Since 1926, he worked at this institute as a teacher of music theory and music history.
He directed amateur choirs, including those of the Kyiv Confectionery Factory named after Karl Marx.
Since 1925, he has been a member of the Bureau of the Association of Conductors at the Mykola Leontovych Music Society.
From 1930, he was a researcher at the Cabinet of Ukrainian Art of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
He was arrested on 3 November (or December) 1937. Babiak was accused of Ukrainian nationalism and "creating a number of Petliura-nationalist organisations". On 6 December, he was sentenced to death by firing squad. The sentence was carried out a week before Adam Babiy's 40th birthday.
He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.
Professional activity
He participated in the development of Ukrainian musical terminology, working as a secretary of the musical section of the Institute of Ukrainian Scientific Language of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (since 1925).
Co-editor of the Dictionary of Musical Terminology. Materials for Ukrainian Terminology" (Kharkiv, 1930, volume 20).
He is the author of scientific and methodological works and journalistic articles on Ukrainian choral culture and music education.
Organiser of music competitions and reviews of music club work in the army.
He is the author of a number of reviews, in particular, of Filaret Kolessa's book Folk Songs from Galician Lemkivshchyna and Vasyl Stupnytskyi's Songs of Sloboda Ukraine (both in manuscript).
Major works
On the origin of music // Music. - 1925. - No. 7-8.
New perspectives of the art of choral conducting // Music for the masses - 1928. - No. 1.
Basic elements of musical literacy: A reference book for students of music professional schools and pedagogical colleges.
Musical education in Ukraine after October // Soviet music. - 1935. - No. 1.
The art of choral singing: Advice to the head of a choral group. - Kyiv - Kharkiv, 1937.
