Myroslav Antonovych

Ukrainian diaspora musicologist, opera singer (baritone), choral conductor, Doctor of Musicology (born 1 March 1917 in Dolyna in Ivano-Frankivsk region — died 11 April 2006 in Utrecht, the Netherlands). Graduate of the Lviv Conservatory; in post-war emigration — Utrecht University, where in 1951 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the Franco-Flemish polyphonic composer school of the 15th-16th centuries. In the same 1951 he founded the Utrecht Byzantine Choir (Visantijns Koor) at the seminary — an ensemble that for over half a century represented the Slavic-Byzantine liturgical and secular repertoire tradition in the Netherlands and Europe. Author of five monographs and dozens of academic articles on the history of Ukrainian sacred music, including 'The Chants from Ukrainian Heirmologia' (1974), 'Polyphonic Music in Ukrainian Churches in the Cossack Era' (1984) and 'Ukrainische geistliche Musik' (1990). Knight of the Order of Merit (Ukraine, 2001). A key figure of Ukrainian emigration musicology of the 20th century.