Myroslav ANTONOVYCH
(01 March 1917, city Dolyna, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine – 11 April 2006, city Utrecht, Netherlands)
Ukrainian singer (baritone), choirmaster and musicologist, he conferred the doctorate thesis titled “Die Motette Benedicta es von Josquin des Prez und die Knives super Benedicta von Willaert, Palestrina, de la Hêle und de Monte” (1951), he is known as a founder of Byzantine Choir in Utrecht. He completed his musicological studies at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv under the guidance of prof. Adolf Chybiński (1941), worked as opera singer in Linz and Łódź (1942), and as conductor of the seminary choir in Culemborg (1951). He got the scholarship from the Harvard University (1953-54), and started to work as a researcher in the Institute of Musicology of the State University in Utrecht in 1951.
Honored artist of Ukraine (1997), awarded with a gold medal and the order of Orange-Nassau in 2001. His scientific interests are early western European and Ukrainian music, sacred monody, partes singing, history of Ukrainian influence on Russian music in the 17th-18th centuries, as well as Renaissance Franko-Flemish music.
His scientific works comprise monographs: “The Chants from Ukrainian Heirmologia” (1974), “Ukrainische geistliche Musik” (1990), “Оеkraїne en de Byzantijnse ritus” (2000), collection of articles about the history of Ukrainian sacred music – Musica sacra (1997). M. Antonovych also wrote many choral arrangements and cantata “Prologue” to the poem “Moses”.