Ukrainian music and public figure, publisher, composer. Father of the singer Yevhenia Zarytska.
He was born in 1863 in the Lviv region. Since 1889, he organized Stanislav's concerts, including the annual Shevchenko Evenings. He was a co-founder and from 1894 to 1900 headed the Stanislav Society "Boyan," at which he created music and concert circles (reorganized into a music school in 1904), as well as a music library.
In 1901-1903, he taught zither playing at the music school at the Russian Institute for Girls in Przemyśl. During 1903-1906 he headed the Boyan in Lviv. Later he lived and worked in Przemysl and Rava-Ruska. He died in 1932.
Creative and publishing activity
Author of music for the dramatic allegory "Heavenly Singers" by Sylvester Yarychevsky (1902), as well as choirs.
During 1904-1907 in Lviv he published the "Illustrated Musical Calendar" dedicated to the musical life of Galicia. The publication contained essays about Ukrainian composers Dmytro Bortnyansky, Artem Vedel, Mykola Lysenko, Viktor Matiuk, Porfiriy Bazhansky, conductor Yaroslav Vitoshynsky, singer Solomiya Krushelnytska; the history of village choirs, "Boyans," and "Banduryst." He has published:
Denys Sichynskyi's autobiography;
"A brief outline of the science of harmony and composition" by Viktor Matiuk;
an article "Hutsul instruments" by Volodymyr Shukhevych with valuable illustrations.
his own works
"Ivan Bilykovsky", 1904;
"Something about practical instruments for the science of harmony", 1906;
"Osyp Vitoshynskyi", 1907.
