Composer, pianist, teacher, music society. leader.

Born on February 20, 1889, village Old rust. Poltava, now Chernihiv. region – died March 30, 1977, Kyiv.

Dr. Mystva (1941). Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1957). Z. d. m. of the Ukrainian SSR (1941). N. a. USSR (1944), Social Hero. Works (1969). Laureate of the State prize of the USSR (1941), Govt. T.G. Shevchenko Prize of the Ukrainian SSR (1966). Member of the organizational bureau of the USSR (1932–39), the organizing committee of the Central Committee of the USSR (1939–48), chairman of the board of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union (1944–48).

He came from the nobility. family (father Mykola Gavrylovych from the family, whose founder was the Zaporozhian Cossack Petro Revukha - a supporter of Hetman P. Konashevich-Sagaidachny, Rki in 5 generations served as priests in the village of Irzhavets, where the famous Cossack shrine was located - the miraculous icon of Irzhavetsk Mother of God, M. G. himself was also a priest and for his ascetic work was awarded the title of Hereditary Honorary Citizen, later left the rank; mother - Oleksandra Dmitrivna came from the famous Storozhenki family - colonels Prylutskyi, whose foundation is connected with the personality of the youngest daughter of B. Khmelnytskyi - Maria Bohdanivna).

R. studied in Pryluts. (1899–1903), Kyiv. gymnasium No. 7 (1903–07), in Kyiv. music school of M. Tutkovsky on cl. fp. M. Lysenko (1903), from 1904 - in Music Drama. school of M. Lysenko, from 1908 - in music. university, from 1913 - in the conservatory for cl. fp. S. Korotkevich and H. Khodorovsky. Zakin law FC Kyiv. university (1915; 1907 entered the university to study physics and mathematics, 1908 transferred to law), 1916 - Kyiv. conservatory on cl. compositions by R. Glier.

1916–18 he was in the army on the fronts of the First World War. war (Riga, for example). 1919–24 worked as a clerk at railway stations in Ichna, then Pryluky (he was arrested by the Cheka in the summer of 1919, miraculously escaped being shot). Participated in the organization of Pryluts. branches of Vseukr. musical association named after M. Leontovych (1922), organized music. program, performed as a pianist-soloist and accompanist of singers and Pryluts. choir. chapel, for which he wrote the cantata "Hustyna" on sl. T. Shevchenko. From 1924 – teacher of Music and Drama. in-that name M. Lysenko in Kyiv (since 1934 - Kyiv Conservatory), prof. (1935). 1927 in Ukrainian. competition for the best music. his composition Symphony No. 2 received the 1st prize.

In 1924–28, he took an active part in the governing bodies of the Mus. Comrade named after M. Leontovych, since 1929 as a musician. the editor began to work on the creative heritage of M. Lysenko for the Complete Edition of his works (lit. editor - D. Revutsky), but this work was stopped in 1932. 1956–1939 carried out extensive work on the creation of a new edition of the opera "Taras Bulba" by M. Lysenko (responsible for the musical material, M. Rylskyi - libretto, B. Lyatoshynskyi performed the orchestration), especially successful was the elaborate heroic-epic overture to opera (the impetus for the creation of which was the exclamatory intonations of the introduction to M. Lysenko's opera).

  A stage phenomenon in the development of Ukraine. instrument of music was his Concerto in F major for piano and orchestra (1934–36). 1941 for the 2nd ed. Symphony No. 2 was awarded by the State. the USSR (then Stalin) prize. 1941–44 - head department of composition, theory and history of music Tashkent. conservatory, 1944–60 - Kyiv. conservatories R. carried out more than 120 treatments of Ukrainian. born songs and songs of other nations. His cycles of arrangements of Cossack songs, "Galician songs" and "Sonechko" were especially vivid examples, which marked innovative directions in the solution of musicals. tasks in the genre of processing sources

High artistic level of the piano. works of R., his Preludes (or. 4, 7, 11), Sonata (or. 1), "Song" (or. 17) are especially widely recognized. 1966 for the 2nd ed. Concert for FP. from Or. F major was awarded by the State. award of the Ukrainian SSR named after T. G. Shevchenko (dedicated to M. Lysenko). Out of more than 50 students in the 1920s and 1930s, S. Zhdanov, K. Shipovich, G. Zhukovsky, A. Svechnikov, E. Yutsevich, I. Pain, M. Yizhakevich, A. Filipenko, A. studied at R. Nazarenko, O. Andreeva and others. At the same time, P. Maiboroda also started his studies, and his older brother G. Maiboroda completed his diploma (he studied in the class of V. Kosenko). In the post-war period of 1940–50, A. Kolomiets, M. Dremlyuga, V. Kireiko, Ya. Lapinsky, V. Homolyaka, L. Levitova, D. Yudelevich, R. Derzhane, L. Grabovskyi (first courses) and others. Almost all composers who graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory received knowledge of polyphony from R. He also produced theoretical musicians - F. Aerova, E. Stolova, M. Bialik, N. Gerasimova-Persidska.

In the last years of his life, as an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, he supervised the dissertation works of postgraduate students of the Institute of Art History, Folklore and Ethnography named after M. Rylskyi, B. Filts and V. Klyna. R.'s external image is like a physical embodiment of the nation. genotype - attracted many artists (I. Yizhakevich, H. Melikhov, I. Tartakovsky [as many as 3 portraits], V. Vyrodov-Gautier, N. Synyshin) and sculptors (O. Kovalev, V. Borodai). Monuments were installed at the Baikov cemetery in Kyiv, in front of the house-museum in the village of Rust and high-relief on the house where the composer lived (K., 16 Sofiivska St.) were made by O. Kovalev. After R.'s death, Chernihiv was named after him. music school, Govt. men's band and music. school No. 5 (in Kyiv); to the 100th anniversary of the artist, the L. Revutsky Memorial Manor Museum was opened in the village of Rusty, name but street to Kharkiv. massifs in Kyiv and the Dnieper. steamer. Memory operated until 2004. office-museum of R. in Kyiv (16 Sofiivska St.), which was taken care of by the composer's son Yevhen Lvovych Revutskyi (June 1, 1919, Ichnya, now Chernihiv region - November 20, 2006, Kyiv) - ed. scientist, doctor of medicine Sciences, prof., laureate of the State awards of the Ukrainian SSR in the field of medicine