Olkhovsky, Andrii [Ольховський, Андрій; Ol'xovs'kyj, Andrij], b 28 August 1899 in Huty, Bohodukhiv county, Kharkiv gubernia, d 15 February 1969 in Washington, DC. Musicologist, composer, and pedagogue. He studied at the Kharkiv and Leningrad conservatories (graduating with a composer’s diploma), then taught history and theory of music at the Kharkiv Conservatory (1929–34) and at the Kyiv Conservatory (1934–41), where he headed the history and theory department. He fled from the USSR in 1943 and served as a professor at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich from 1947 until his departure for the United States of America in 1949. Olkhovsky’s first major monograph, Narys istoriï ukraïns'koï muzyky (An Outline of the History of Ukrainian Music), was destroyed during a German bombing raid in 1941. He later wrote Music under the Soviets: The Agony of an Art (1955), which includes material on Ukrainian music. He also wrote musical criticism and a variety of articles on musical topics. His compositions include the oratorio Garden of Gethsemane (in English, after a poem by D. Prudhomme) for mixed chorus, orchestra, soloists, and narrator (1956), four symphonies, two symphonettes, and music to the dramatic poem Orgy by Lesia Ukrainka, as well as a cycle of art songs for solo voice to texts by her.

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