Filaret Kolessa

Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa (; 17 July 18713 March 1947) was a Ukrainian composer, ethnographer, folklorist, musicologist and literary critic. He was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society from 1909, from 1929, and the founder of Ukrainian ethnographic musicology.

Biography Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa was born on 17 July 1871 in the Galician village of Tatarske, now the village of Pishchany, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. He studied at the University of Vienna under the composer Anton Bruckner from 1891 to 1892, and completed his studies at the Lviv University in 1896. The board and members of the Shevchenko Scientific Society celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ivan Kotliarevsky's Eneida, Lviv, 31 October 1898: Sitting in the first row: Mykhaylo Pavlyk, Yevheniya Yaroshynska, Natalia Kobrynska, Olha Kobylianska, Sylvester Lepky, Andriy Chaykovsky, Kost Pankivsky. In the second row: Ivan Kopach, Volodymyr Hnatiuk, Osyp Makovej, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ivan Franko, Oleksandr Kolessa, Bohdan Lepky. Standing in the third row: Ivan Petrushevych, Filaret Kolessa, Yossyp Kyshakevych, Ivan Trush, Denys Lukianovych, Mykola Ivasyuk.

Filaret taught in high schools in Lviv, Stryi, and Sambir. He worked with the composer Mykola Lysenko, and the writers Ivan Franko and Lesya Ukrainka. In 1918, he defended his dissertation at the University of Vienna and received the title Doctor of Philology. He studied the rhythms of Ukrainian folk songs of Galicia, Volhynia and Lemkivshchyna. From 1939 he was a professor at Lviv University, from 1940 the director of the State museum of Ethnography in Lviv, director of the Lviv section, of the Institute for Art studies, Folklore and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (from 1940), and a participant at international conferences of musicologists and philologists at Prague, Warsaw, Vienna, and Antwerp.

Kolessa died on 3 March 1947. He was buried in Lviv at Lychakiv Cemetery.

Family Filaret had a brother, Oleksander Kolessa. He was also the father of Mykola Kolessa and the uncle of Lubka Kolessa.

Main works (1905), "A Survey of Ukrainian-Rus’ Folk Poetry" (19061907), "The Rhythms of Ukrainian Folk Songs" (1910, 1913), "Melodies of Ukrainian Folk" dumy, 2 volumes (19131914), "Structure and Characteristics of Ukrainian Folk Melodies" (19201921), "Ukrainian Folk Dumy and their Relationship to Songs, Poems and Funeral Laments" (1921), "The Genesis of Ukrainian Folk Dumy". (1923), "Folk Songs of Southern Subcarpathia" (1925), "Recitative Forms in Ukrainian Folk Poetry" (1928), "Ukrainian Folk Songs at the Turn of the 17–18th Centuries" (1929), "Folk Songs from the Galician Lemko Region" (1938),"The Ukrainian Oral Literature" (1946). "Folk Song Melodies of the Ukrainian Carpathians"

Author of numerous choral works and arrangements of Ukrainian folk. Manuscript on the "History of Ukrainian ethnography" is still unpublished.