Ukrainian musicologist, composer and teacher. Doctor of Arts (1943), professor. Author of memoirs about Mykola Lysenko. Member of the Mykola Leontovych Music Society. Son of Olena Vonsovska, a teacher and director of the Mykola Lysenko Kyiv Music and Drama School.
Biography.
In 1913, he graduated from the Mykola Lysenko Music and Drama School (piano and music theory classes of Mykola Lysenko, Anton Dobkevych, and Hryhoriy Liubomyrskyi).
1915 - graduated from the University of St. Volodymyr.
1916-1918 - studied at the Kyiv Conservatory (composition class of Reinhold Glier and Bolesław Jaworski).
In 1918, he participated in the organization of the Kyiv Music and Drama Institute. In 1920-1924 he headed[2] this institute and also taught piano and composition classes.
He collaborated with Les Kurbas. He was the head of the musical department of the Berezil Theater, composed music for performances, conducted the orchestra; there is information that Butsky headed the Berezolya music station and lectured to students. He composed music for such plays as Gas, Jimmy Higgins, and Macbeth.
From 1925 he was a teacher, and from 1935 he was a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory, dean of the instructional and pedagogical faculty.
He composed music for the following performances
"Gas by G. Kaiser
"Jimmy Higgins by E. Sinclair for the Berezil Theater (both in 1923)
"Macbeth" by W. Shakespeare (1924)
"Jacquerie" by P. Mérimée (1925, together with Mykhailo Verikivskyi)
