Olkhovskyi Andrii Vasylovych (pseudonym - Yevhen Olenskyi) (28.08.1899, Huty village, near Kharkiv - 15.02.1969, Washington, USA) - musicologist, composer, teacher (USA). Graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of Forestry (1925), Kharkiv Conservatory, composition class of C. Bohatyryov (1926), postgraduate studies at the Leningrad Institute of Art History (scientific adviser B. Asafiev. 1929). D. in art history (1929). He was the editor of the magazine "Music" (1929-1934). Lecturer, associate professor, acting professor at the Kharkiv Conservatory (1929-1934); professor (1935), head of the Department of Ukrainian Music at the Kyiv Conservatory (1935-1941), director of the Music and Ballet School (1942-1943), 1945-47 - director of the music school in camps in Germany, in 1947-49 worked in Munich, at the Ukrainian Free University, since 1949 lived in the United States.
His work
oratorio "Garden of Gethsemane" (1956);
4 symphonies:
№ 1 (1940),
No. 2 - based on Franko (1948-1949),
No. 3 (with choir) - "Miserere Domine" (1952-1954),
№ 4 (1953-1954),
Symphony (1957),
Symphony in F sharp (1960-1962),
Symphony in G sharp;
Triptych Symphony (1964);
choirs;
a cycle of songs to lyrics by Lesya Ukrainka;
music to the drama poem "Orgy" by Lesya Ukrainka (1947).
Musicology works:
Essay on the history of Ukrainian music (1939)
Ukrainian classical music (1941)
Music under the Soviets: The Agony of an Art (in English, New York, 1955, 1975)
