Levytska, Halyna

Levytska, Halyna [Левицька, Галина; Levyc'ka], b 23 January 1901 in Porokhnyk, Jarosław county, Galicia, d 13 July 1949 in Lviv. Pianist, publicist, and pedagogue; spouse of Ivan Krushelnytsky. She studied music at the Lysenko Higher Institute of Music in Lviv and at the Vienna Academy of Music (1916–20), lectured at the Lysenko Institute (1921–39), and was professor at its successor, the Lviv Conservatory (1940–1 and 1944–9). She toured Western Ukraine, Poland, Prague, Vienna, and elsewhere with a repertoire including works by Ludwig van Beethoven, César Franck, Fryderyk Chopin, and Franz Liszt. In 1936–7 she gave a series of piano recitals in Lviv devoted to Ukrainian and foreign piano music. She also performed works by contemporary Ukrainian composers including Lev Revutsky, Viktor Kosenko, Pylyp Kozytsky, Borys Liatoshynsky, Roman Simovych, Mykola Kolessa, and Antin Rudnytsky.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]