Background
Demutskii, Porfirii was born on March 10, 1860 in the village of Ianishivtsy in the Kiev Gouvernement.
Demutskii, Porfirii was born on March 10, 1860 in the village of Ianishivtsy in the Kiev Gouvernement.
Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Committee for Ethnography. Taught at the N. V. Lysenko Institute for Musical Drama, Kiev. One of the first to record Ukrainian folk motives.