8 February] 1889 in Irzhavets, Priluksky Uyezd of the Poltava Governorate (presently in the Chernihiv Oblast) in Ukraine) to a family of a trustee of a rural school.

His musical talent showed up very early and his mother began to teach young Revutsky to play the piano when he hardly was five years old.

By age ten, he showed skill at improvisation and had perfect pitch, earning him the nickname "Tuning fork".

In the conservatory, Revutsky simultaneously with his piano studies begins to visit Glière's composition classes.

The first part of piano sonata (in C minor), sketches for the first symphony, and the prelude of opus four were created at this time.

In February 1969, in connection with his 80th birthday and for creative merit Levko Revutsky was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.

According to Irene Rima Makaryk and Virlana Tkacz, Revutsky continued and developed the aesthetic principles of Lysenko and Mykola Leontovych.

Revutsky also made important contribution to the development in Ukraine of folk song arrangements; he composed approximately 120 altogether.

According to surviving documentation from Mikhail Khrapchenko [ru], the chairman of the Committee on Arts Affairs, the switch was made in order to make up for a lack of representation from non-Russian Soviet republics.