Filaret Kolessa

Filaret Mychailowytsch Kolessa ( Ukrainian Філарет Михайлович Колесса ; born July 17, 1871 in Tatarsko , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; † March 3, 1947 in Lviv , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian ethnographer , folklorist , composer and musicologist .

Board of Directors and members of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, Lviv, October 31, 1898. from left to right:
1st (bottom) row: Mychajlo Pawlyk , Yevhenija Jaroschynska , Natalija Kobrynska , Olha Kobyljanska , Sylwestr Lepkyj , Andrij Tschaikowskyj , Kostjantyn Pankiwskyj
2nd row : Ivan Kopatsch , Volodymyr Hnatjuk , Ossyp Makowej , mykhailo hrushevsky , Ivan Franko , Oleksandr Kolessa , Bohdan Lepkyj
3 (top) row: Ivan Petrushevich , Filaret Kolessa , Jossyp Kyschakewytsch , Ivan Trusch , Denys Lukijanowytsch , Mykola Iwasjuk

Life

Filaret Kolessa was born as the younger brother of Ivan and Oleksandr Kolessa in the village of Tatarsko, today's Pishchany in the Stryi district of the Ukrainian Lviv Oblast . In 1891/92 he studied at the University of Vienna under Anton Bruckner, among others . In 1896 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Lviv and taught at public schools in Lviv , Stryi and Sambir between 1898 and 1929 . In 1918 he defended his dissertation at the University of Vienna and received a doctorate in philology. From 1909 on Filaret Kolessa was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society and in 1929 he became a member of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences . He was excluded from this in 1933 and accepted again in 1939. In that year he also became professor and head of the Department of Ukrainian Folklore and Ethnography at Lviv University. In 1940 he became the director of the Lviv branch of the Institute of Art History, Folklore and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. He was also a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR . Kolessa maintained contacts with Volodymyr Hnatjuk , Mykola Lyssenko , Lesja Ukrajinka , Iwan Franko and Klyment Kwitka ( Климент Васильович Квітка 1880–1952).

He died at the age of 75 in Lviv and was buried there in the Lychakiv Cemetery.

family

Filaret Kolessa was the father of the composer, conductor and educator Mykola Kolessa , brother of the literary critic, linguist and social and political activist Oleksandr Kolessa (Ukrainian: Михайло Іванович Павлик ; 1867–1945) and uncle of the pianist and music teacher Lubka .

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Kolessa studied the rhythms of Ukrainian folk songs from Galicia, Volhynia and the Lemkenland . He wrote scientific works on the folklore of Ukrainian and Slavic music and published, among other things, collections of his arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs and his own choral works. His work makes a significant contribution to Ukrainian folklore.

Honors

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor

Web links

Commons : Filaret Kolessa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Filaret Kolessa in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)
• Entry on Kolessa, Filaret in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reference to the picture in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on May 3, 2017
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Biography Filaret Kolessa on ukrainians-world.org.ua ; accessed on May 9, 2017 (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Biography of Filaret Kolessa on pisni.org.ua ; accessed on May 9, 2017 (Ukrainian)
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Entry on Filaret Kolessa in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia on dic.academic.ru ; accessed on May 9, 2017 (Russian)
5. ↑ Famous personalities ( Memento of the original dated May 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Lychakiv Cemetery website ; accessed on May 9, 2017 (Ukrainian)