Savytsky Jr., Roman [Савицький-молодший, Роман; Savyc'kyj], b 9 March 1938 in Lviv, d 20 June 2015 in Cranford, New Jersey, USA. Musicologist; son of Roman Savytsky and Ivanna Savytska. He studied music theory and piano (1945–60) with his father and at the Ukrainian Music Institute of America (1959). He completed a degree in library science at the Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia (1962), where he specialized in music bibliography. His writings include an English-language introduction with notes to the first volume of Zinovii Lysko's Ukraïns’ki narodni melodiï (Ukrainian Folk Melodies, 1967); bibliographies on Mykola Lysenko, Z. Lysko, and Mykola Holubets; discographies with notes on Oleksander Myshuha, Modest Menzinsky, Roman Savytsky, and others; and Ukrainian Film Guide (1980). He also wrote numerous articles, music criticism, and reviews in the Ukrainian press and contributed entries to Ukrainian and American encyclopedias, including the Encyclopedia of Ukraine.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]