Savelii Ilyich Futoryansky (*1900, Tyvriv, now Vinnytsia region - †28 December 1925, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian composer, conductor and music critic.
Biography.
He was born into the family of a doctor of the Tyvriv Bursa. He studied at the Tyvriv Bursa and the 3rd Kyiv Gymnasium, graduating in 1918. While still at the gymnasium, he felt drawn to music, so he entered the Kyiv Conservatory. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire in 1921. From 1920, he worked as a music instructor in the Red Army and Kyiv political education. From 1922, he was a conductor of the Drama Theatre in Kyiv, and from 1923 he directed the Mykola Leontovych Music Studio and the Children's Music Studio. He died as a result of a tragic accident after drinking a solution of sulema instead of water.
Creativity
The composer's works include two sonatas, a march, poems by contemporary poets set to music, including choruses to the words of Pavlo Tychyna ("Easter Rain", "We are Bells"), piano pieces, solo chants, and an unfinished book "Music and Revolution". He was actively involved in the press as a music critic, contributing to the newspapers Bolshevik, Proletarska Pravda, Visti VUCVK, and the magazine Muzyka.
