Filaret Kolessa
{{Short description|Ukrainian composer, ethnographer, and folklorist}}
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| birth_place = Tatarske, Galicia (now Pishchany, Ukraine)
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| occupation = Ukrainian composer ethnographer, folklorist, musicologist, literary critic
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Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa ({{langx|uk|Філарет Михайлович Колесса}}; 17 July 1871{{snd}}3 March 1947) was a Ukrainian composer, ethnographer, folklorist, musicologist and literary critic. He was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society from 1909, {{Ill|The All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences|uk|Національна академія наук України}} 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,{{sfn|Wytwycky|2004}} now the village of Pishchany, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. He studied at the University of Vienna under the composer Anton Bruckner from 1891 to 1892,{{sfn|Katchanovski|Kohut|Nebesio|Yurkevich |2013|p=272}} and completed his studies at the Lviv University in 1896.{{sfn|Wytwycky|2004}}
File:Учасники з’їзду українських письменників з нагоди 100-річчя виходу в світ «Енеїди».jpeg 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.{{cite web |last1=Штогрін |first1=Ірина |title=Він записав на фонограф кобзарів і лірників: до 150-річчя Філарета Колесси |url=https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/filaret-kolessa-folkloryst-muzykoznavets/31360696.html |website=Radio Svoboda |access-date=6 June 2024 |language=uk |date=19 July 2021}} 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.{{citation required|date=April 2023}}
Kolessa died on 3 March 1947.{{sfn|Wytwycky|2004}} He was buried in Lviv at Lychakiv Cemetery.{{cite web |title=1871 – народився Філарет Колесса, український музикознавець, композитор, фольклорист |url=https://uinp.gov.ua/istorychnyy-kalendar/lypen/17/1871-narodyvsya-filaret-kolessa-ukrayinskyy-muzykoznavec-kompozytor-folkloryst |website=УІНП |access-date=6 June 2024 |language=uk}}
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File:Filaret Kolessa. 1937.jpg
Filaret had a brother, {{Ill|Oleksander Kolessa|ru|Колесса, Александр Михайлович}}. He was also the father of Mykola Kolessa and the uncle of Lubka Kolessa.
Main works
- {{lang|uk|Огляд українсько-руської народної поезії}} (1905), "A Survey of Ukrainian-Rus’ Folk Poetry"{{sfn|Wytwycky|2004}}
- {{lang|uk|Ритміка українських народних пісень}} (1906{{ndash}}1907), "The Rhythms of Ukrainian Folk Songs"{{sfn|Wytwycky|2004}}
- {{lang|uk|Мелодії українських народних дум}} (1910, 1913), "Melodies of Ukrainian Folk" dumy, 2 volumes{{sfn|Wytwycky|2004}}
- {{lang|uk|Наверстування і характерні признаки українських народних мелодій}} (1913{{ndash}}1914), "Structure and Characteristics of Ukrainian Folk Melodies"
- {{lang|uk|Українські народні думи у відношенні до пісень, віршів і походження голосінь}} (1920{{ndash}}1921), "Ukrainian Folk Dumy and their Relationship to Songs, Poems and Funeral Laments"
- {{lang|uk|Про генезу українських народних дум}} (1921), "The Genesis of Ukrainian Folk Dumy".
- {{lang|uk|Народні пісні з південного Підкарпаття}} (1923), "Folk Songs of Southern Subcarpathia"
- {{lang|uk|Речитативні форми в українській народній поезії}} (1925), "Recitative Forms in Ukrainian Folk Poetry"
- {{lang|uk|Українські народні пісні на переломі 17–18 ст.}} (1928), "Ukrainian Folk Songs at the Turn of the 17–18th Centuries"
- {{lang|uk|Народні пісні з галицької Лемківщині}} (1929), "Folk Songs from the Galician Lemko Region"{{sfn|Wytwycky|2004}}
- {{lang|uk|Українська усна словесність}} (1938),"The Ukrainian Oral Literature"{{sfn|Wytwycky|2004}}
- {{lang|uk|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.
See also
References
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Sources
- {{cite book |author-link=Ivan Katchanovski|last1=Katchanovski |first1=Ivan |last2=Kohut |first2=Zenon E. |last3=Nebesio |first3=Bohdan Y. |last4=Yurkevich |first4=Myroslav |title=Historical Dictionary of Ukraine |date=2013 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-08108-7-847-1 |edition=2nd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-h6r57lDC4QC}}
- {{cite web |last1=Wytwycky |first1=Wasyl |title=Kolessa, Filaret |url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CK%5CO%5CKolessaFilaret.htm |website=Internet Encyclopaedia of Ukraine |publisher=Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies |date=2004 |access-date=9 April 2023}}
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- {{cite book |last1=Kolessa |first1=Filaret |title=Review of Ukrainian-Russian Folk Poetry |date=1905 |url=http://labs.lnu.edu.ua/folklore-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/02/Kolessa_F._Ohliad_narodnoji_poeziji._Lviv,2009.pdf |language=uk |ref=none}}
External links
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- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Filaret Kolessa}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928060941/http://mincult.gov.ua/?level=2&fname=files%2Fkoles2.csv&templ=p21 Site of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine] {{in lang|uk}}
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