Borys Porfyrovych Levytskyi (Levytskyi; b. 13 March 1887, Andriivka village (now Makariv district, Kyiv region) - d. 20 November 1937, Kyiv) was a choral conductor, composer, and teacher.
He was born in the Kyiv region in the family of a priest. From his youth he worked as a teacher and was a conductor of peasant choirs.
He graduated from the regency courses at the Kherson Music School. He studied at the Kyiv Music School (class of composition theory of Yevhen Ryb).
Since 1907 he was engaged in musical and pedagogical activities. He directed numerous choirs.
He also participated in church activities, was a member of the All-Ukrainian Council of the UAOC (Kyiv, 1921).
From 1933 he worked with the ensemble of the Dnipro Radio Committee, and in 1937 he directed the choir of the Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.
He was repressed in 1937 (on November 20, he was convicted under the first category (protocol No. 363) and shot), rehabilitated by the Supreme Court of the USSR in 1956.
He directed choirs.
Kyiv Workers' Choir (1916)
Boryspil Peasant Choir (1921)
Student INO (from 1922, Kyiv)
The Vinnytsia Choir (1918, he was its organizer)
The choir of the music school in Pereyaslav, for which he wrote "Testament" on the words of Taras Shevchenko
The Rukh Choir (1923, he was its organizer)
Ensemble of the Dnipro Radio Committee (since 1933)
Choir of the Library of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1937)
In the repertoire
"Gypsies" by R. Schumann, "Night" by S. Gounod
"The Tsar's Bride by N. Rimsky-Korsakov
"Nizhny Novgorodians" by E. Nadezhdaev
"Aleko" by S. Rachmaninoff
from choral plays by S. Taneyev ("Prometheus", "In the Evening")
from the works of M. Lysenko ("The Thresholds Are Breaking," "The Fog Lies in Waves," "The Eternal Revolutionary"), K. Stetsenko ("Dream," "To Shevchenko"), M. Leontovych ("Ice Breaker," "Summer Tones")
from the works of Eastern Galicia - D. Rozdolsky ("The Sun Goes Down"), H. Topolnitsky ("Perebendia"), S. Liudkevych ("Evening in the House").
Works
for mixed choir - "Ukraine has not yet died", "Military singer" (early 1920s), three Polish hymns, Liturgy;
for children's choir or trio - "Angel" and others;
solos - "For You Alone", "Confession".
