Ukrainian composer, teacher, and public figure.
Biography.
He was born in the village of Mytkiv, Austria-Hungary. Graduated from the State Teachers' Seminary in Chernivtsi (1894), studied music with the famous composer A. Kuzhel.
He served in the army of Austria-Hungary. Later he taught and was a school principal in Bukovyna communities. After retiring in the early 1930s, he lived in Chernivtsi. He was a member of the board of the People's House, an active member of the Ukrainian School Society.
His compositions were in the repertoire of Ukrainian choirs in Galicia and Bukovyna, and from 1937 they were broadcast on Lviv radio, and his poems were published in the Bukovyna and Galician press, as well as in the American newspaper Svoboda.
In 1940, he moved with his family to Germany. He died on September 13, 1949 in the city of Bad Enghausen.
Family.
wife Zenovia Omelska (Orza) - a teacher.
brother Dionysii Omelskyi - violinist, public figure, teacher, arranger.
nephew Oleksandr Omelsky - composer, pianist, teacher. (He became the prototype of the character Danko Danyliuk in the novel "Adult Children" by Iryna Wilde)
son Yaroslav Omelsky - violinist, composer.
Works.
"Collection of liturgical and church songs" (1925),
Collection of arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs for women and men choir (1935),
the choir "Zapovit" (words by Taras Shevchenko),
children's chorus "Bow to You, Taras" (lyrics by Y. Shkrumeliak; both - 1937),
a song for 3 voices "Native Language" (lyrics by S. Vorobkevych)
"Liturgy for a Male Choir on the Basis of a Church Floor" (both 1938),
"Three Pious Songs" (1939),
a number of collections of songs with lyrics by Bukovynian poets, etc.
