Dr. Vasyl Vytvytsky (October 16, 1905, Kolomyia - October 31, 1999, Summit) was a Ukrainian composer, musicologist, cultural critic, and public figure in Galicia and the diaspora.
He was born on October 16, 1905, in Kolomyia (now Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine) into a family of teachers. He graduated from the Kolomyia Gymnasium and the Faculty of Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He defended his doctoral thesis "Russian Solo Song in Galicia in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century" and received his doctorate.
He worked as an associate professor of music theory and history at the Lviv Conservatory until 1944. He emigrated to the West, stayed in refugee camps (Austria, Germany). In 1949, he moved to the United States and settled in Detroit.
Works:
Ukrainian influences in Chopin's music.
Monograph about M. Haivoronsky
Musical works: "Song and Dance", piano trio, string quartet, works for string orchestra.
Vasyl Vytvytskyi's daughter Larysa was born in Lviv in 1936. His son Bohdan, born in Germany in 1948, is an American lawyer and public figure, assistant federal prosecutor, and was one of the candidates for the position of head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. He currently works as an advisor to Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko.
