Filaret Kolessa

Kolessa worked between 1871 and 1947 across anthropologist, musicologist, composer, music educator and literary critic and 6 further recorded occupations. The registers place that work in folk music and choral music. This article rests on 15 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

Filaret Kolessa studied at Lviv University and University of Vienna. The recorded working language is Polish and Ukrainian. The field of work recorded is musicology, composer and duma. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are folk music and choral music. Employment is recorded with Lviv University. Positions recorded include member of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

• Name — Filaret Kolessa • Native Name — Філарет Михайлович Колесса • Birth Name — Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa • Born — 17 July 1871 • Birthplace — Tatarske, Galicia (now Pishchany, Ukraine) • Died — 3 March 1947 • Citizenship — Ukrainian • Occupation — Ukrainian composer ethnographer, folklorist, musicologist, literary critic

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. • Illustration — 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.

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

• Огляд українсько-руської народної поезії (1905), "A Survey of Ukrainian-Rus’ Folk Poetry" • Ритміка українських народних пісень (19061907), "The Rhythms of Ukrainian Folk Songs" • Мелодії українських народних дум (1910, 1913), "Melodies of Ukrainian Folk" dumy, 2 volumes • Наверстування і характерні признаки українських народних мелодій (19131914), "Structure and Characteristics of Ukrainian Folk Melodies" • Українські народні думи у відношенні до пісень, віршів і походження голосінь (19201921), "Ukrainian Folk Dumy and their Relationship to Songs, Poems and Funeral Laments" • Про генезу українських народних дум (1921), "The Genesis of Ukrainian Folk Dumy". • Народні пісні з південного Підкарпаття (1923), "Folk Songs of Southern Subcarpathia" • Речитативні форми в українській народній поезії (1925), "Recitative Forms in Ukrainian Folk Poetry" • Українські народні пісні на переломі 17–18 ст. (1928), "Ukrainian Folk Songs at the Turn of the 17–18th Centuries" • Народні пісні з галицької Лемківщині (1929), "Folk Songs from the Galician Lemko Region" • Українська усна словесність (1938),"The Ukrainian Oral Literature" • Народні пісенні мелодії українського Закарпаття (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.

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Filaret Kolessa was born on 5 July 1871 in Pishchany. Kolessa held the nationality of Austria–Hungary, Poland and Soviet Union. Kolessa was educated at Lviv University, which Kolessa left in 1896 and University of Vienna, which Kolessa left in 1918. Recorded child: Dariya Kolessa-Zaleska and Mykola Kolessa. Recorded sibling: Oleksandr Mychajlovyč Kolessa.

Kolessa worked as anthropologist, musicologist, composer and music educator, and the authority record catalogues a further 7 occupations under the same name, among them literary critic, ethnomusicologist, director, ethnographer, folklorist and literary scholar. Kolessa held the posts of member of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1947). Kolessa was employed by Lviv University (1939). The fields Kolessa worked in include folk music and choral music. Kolessa worked in Polish and Ukrainian.

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