Lviv National Musical Academy named after Mykola Lysenko ( uk, Львівська національна музична академія імені Миколи Лисенка) or informally Lviv Conservatory is a state
conservatory located in
Lviv
Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...
(
Ukraine
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).
History
The LNMA ''
Mykola Lysenko
Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko ( uk, Мико́ла Віта́лійович Ли́сенко; 22 March 1842 – 6 November 1912) was a List of Ukrainian composers, Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic mus ...
'' traces its origins to earlier music institutions in Lviv, going back to the 19th century, when
Franz Xaver Mozart
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (26 July 1791 – 29 July 1844), also known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jr., was the youngest child of six born to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his wife Constanze and the younger of his parents' two surviving children. ...
created the
Saint Cecilia
Saint Cecilia ( la, Sancta Caecilia), also spelled Cecelia, was a Roman virgin martyr and is venerated in Catholic, Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox, Anglican Communion, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden. She b ...
Society.
In 1838, the first music society of Lviv was created under the name of Society for Teaching of Music in Galicia (german: Gesellschaft zur Beförderung der Musik in Galizien). This by 1848 had become the
Galician Music Society. In 1854, the society opened its Music Conservatory. Its first director was a pianist and composer
Karol Mikuli
Karol Mikuli, often seen as Charles Mikuli ( hy, Կարոլ Միկուլի or Կարոլ Պստիկյան; 22 October 1821 – 21 May 1897) was a Polish pianist, composer, conductor and teacher. His students included Moriz Rosenthal, Raoul Koczals ...
, a pupil of
Chopin, and in different years among the teachers were Ludwig Marek,
Mieczysław Sołtys
Mieczysław Sołtys (February 7, 1863 - November 11, 1929) was a Polish composer, conductor, teacher, music and public figure.
Biography
He studied in Lviv Conservatory as a composer (under Carl Mikuli) and at the same time as philosopher in L ...
, his son Adam Sołtys,
Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński
Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński (25 July 1869 – 18 April 1928) was a Polish composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.
Works
Orchestral works
* Piano Concerto in e minor (1892-4)
* Piano Concerto in c minor (1898)
* Symphony in c minor
Stage Wo ...
,
Józef Koffler,
Ludomir Różycki
Ludomir Różycki (; 18 September 1883 Warsaw – 1 January 1953 Katowice) was a Polish composer and conductor. He was, with Mieczysław Karłowicz, Karol Szymanowski and Grzegorz Fitelberg, a member of the group of composers known as ''Y ...
,
Vilém Kurz
Vilém Kurz (23 December 1872 – 25 May 1945) was a Czechs, Czech pianist and renowned piano teacher.
Career
Kurz was born in Havlíčkův Brod, Německý Brod, Bohemia in 1872. He became a professor at the State Conservatory in Lviv and Vi ...
,
Jan Gall
Jan Karol Gall (August 18, 1856 – October 30, 1912) was a Polish vocal composer and music teacher.
Gall was born in Warsaw, and studied under Franz Krenn in Vienna, Josef Rheinberger in Munich, and Francesco Lamperti in Milan. In 1880, he became ...
, Wilhelm Stengel, Bronisław von Poźniak and others. The list of alumni includes some of the most renowned musicians of the 19th and the early 20th century Central Europe. Among them were composers
Zdzisław Jachimecki
Zdzisław Jachimecki ( Lwów, 7 July 1882 – 27 October 1953, Kraków) was a Polish historian of music, composer, professor at the Jagiellonian University and the Kraków Music Academy, and member of the Polish Academy of Learning.
Life
Born ...
,
Vasyl Barvinsky
Vasyl Oleksandrovych Barvinsky ( uk, Василь Олександрович Барвінський) (20 February 1888 – 9 June 1963) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and music related social figure.
Barvinsk ...
, and
Roman Palester
Roman Palester (28 December 1907 – 25 August 1989) was a Polish composer of classical music. Palester composed his most significant work during the 1960s and was the first Polish musician to be awarded the Alfred Jurzykowski Prize in 1964. ...
; pianists such as
Moritz Rosenthal,
Mieczysław Horszowski
Mieczysław Horszowski (June 23, 1892May 22, 1993) was a Polish-American pianist who had one of the longest careers in the history of the performing arts.
Life
Early life
Horszowski was born in Lwów (Lemberg), Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine). H ...
,
Raoul Koczalski
Raoul Armand Jerzy (von) Koczalski (3 January 1884 – 24 November 1948) was a Polish pianist and composer. He also used the pseudonym Georg Armand(o) Koczalski.
Career
Born in Warsaw, Koczalski was taught first by his mother, then by Julian Gad ...
,
Stefan Askenase
Stefan Askenase (10 July 189618 October 1985) was a Polish-Belgian classical pianist and pedagogue.
Biography
Askenase was born in Lviv, then known as Lemberg, into a Jewish family.
At the age of five he began playing the piano with his mothe ...
, and
Aleksander Michałowski
Aleksander Michałowski (17 October 1938) was a Polish pianist, pedagogue and composer who, in addition to his own immense technique, had a profound influence upon the teaching of pianoforte technique, especially in relation to the works of Chopi ...
; and singers such as
Adam Didur
Adam Didur or Adamo Didur (24 December 18747 January 1946) was a famous Polish operatic bass singer. He sang extensively in Europe and had a major career at New York's Metropolitan Opera from 1908 to 1932.
Career
He was born on 24 December 187 ...
(bass),
Solomiya Krushelnytska (soprano),
Aleksander Myszuga
Aleksander Myszuga ( uk, Олександр Пилипович Мишуга, June 20, 1853 – March 9, 1922) (sometimes spelled Ołeksandr Mishuga or Olexander Myshuga) was a Ukrainian operatic tenor and voice teacher of Ukrainian descent. He stu ...
(tenor),
Marcelina Sembrich (coloratura soprano). Among the notable graduates were also
Irena Anders
Irena Renata Anders (12 May 1920 – 29 November 2010), born Iryna Renata Jarosiewicz (Yarosevych), was a Ukrainian-Polish stage actress and singer. During World War II she performed with Henryk Wars' troupe and later with the ''Polska Parad ...
,
Olga Drahonowska-Małkowska
Olga Drahonowska-Małkowska (January 9, 1888, Krzeszowice, Poland – January 15, 1979, Zakopane, Poland), with her husband, founded scouting in Poland.
Childhood and Adolescence
Olga Drahonowska-Małkowska was born in Krzeszowice, the secon ...
,
Henryk Mikolasch Henryk may refer to:
* Henryk (given name)
* Henryk, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, a village in south-central Poland
* Henryk Glacier, an Antarctic glacier
See also
* Henryk Batuta hoax
The Henryk Batuta hoax was a hoax perpetrated on the Polish ...
,
Zofia Terné, and
Ida Fink
Ida Fink ( he, אידה פינק,
1 November 1921 – 27 September 2011) was a Polish-born Israeli author who wrote about the Holocaust in Polish.
Biography
Ida Fink was born as Ida Landau in Zbaraż, Poland (now Zbarazh, Ukraine) on 1 Novemb ...
.
As the education in most institutions of higher education in
Austro-Hungarian Galicia was carried out mostly in
Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...
and
German language
German ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and Official language, official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Ita ...
s, in 1903 the Ukrainian minority of Lviv founded a separate Higher Musical Institute of Mykola Lysenko ( uk, Вищий музичний інститут ім. М. В. Лисенка). Its teachers included
Stanyslav Lyudkevych
Stanyslav Pylypovych Lyudkevych ( uk, Станіслав Пилипович Людкевич; 24 January 1879 – 10 September 1979) was a Ukrainian composer, theorist, teacher, and musical activist. He was the People's Artist of the USSR in 1969. ...
and
Vasyl Barvinsky
Vasyl Oleksandrovych Barvinsky ( uk, Василь Олександрович Барвінський) (20 February 1888 – 9 June 1963) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and music related social figure.
Barvinsk ...
, and among the students were Roman Sawycky, Daria Gordinskaya-Karanovich, and Galina Levitskaya.
Simultaneously, the Galician Music Society continued to exist and prosper, and soon was renamed to the Polish Music Society in Lviv. Its conservatory, financing the society's daily operations, moved to a new building at Chorążczyzny Street (presently occupied by the Lviv Regional Philharmonic). Partially thanks to the Society's teachers, in 1911 the
Lviv University
The University of Lviv ( uk, Львівський університет, Lvivskyi universytet; pl, Uniwersytet Lwowski; german: Universität Lemberg, briefly known as the ''Theresianum'' in the early 19th century), presently the Ivan Franko Na ...
opened a faculty of
musicology
Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...
, led by musicologist
Adolf Chybiński. During
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, the conservatory continued to function, but the Russian occupation of the city forced most of its students and teachers into a brief exile. A short-lived branch of the Polish Music Society was opened in
Vienna
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. After the war, both Polish and Ukrainian societies continued to coexist until 1939. Following the joint Nazi and Soviet
invasion of Poland
The invasion of Poland (1 September – 6 October 1939) was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week aft ...
, the city had been occupied by the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
. Both societies were merged with the University's faculty of musicology into a new ''Lviv State Conservatory, M.V. Lysenko'' (russian: Львовская государственная консерватория им. Н. В. Лысенко).
Following the war, the city was
permanently annexed by the Soviet Union, and the conservatory continued to exist in a building formerly occupied by
Academy of Foreign Trade in Lwów
Academy of Foreign Trade in Lwów ( pl, Akademia Handlu Zagranicznego we Lwowie, ''AHZ'') was one of four colleges in the city of Lwów in the interbellum period, when it belonged to the Second Polish Republic (now Lviv, Ukraine). It existed be ...
. However, after 1944 most of its Polish teachers and students were expelled, forced to emigrate and continued their careers in post-war Poland or abroad. Likewise, some Ukrainian teachers of the Higher Music Institute continued activities in exile in New York, from 1947, under the leadership of Roman Sawycky (1907–1960), creating the
Ukrainian Music Institute of America.
After the war, teachers in Lviv included
Vsevolod Zaderatsky
Vsevolod Petrovich Zaderatsky (russian: Всеволод Петрович Задерацкий; 21 December 1891, Rivne, Russian Empire 1 February 1953, Lvov, USSR) was a Russian Imperial and Ukrainian Soviet composer, pianist and teacher at ...
. Since 1992 the conservatory had been called ''Higher State Music Institute. M.V. Lysenko'' and was changed in 2000 to ''Lviv State Musical Academy M.V. Lysenko''. On September 13, 2007,
Ukrainian President
The president of Ukraine ( uk, Президент України, Prezydent Ukrainy) is the head of state of Ukraine. The president represents the nation in international relations, administers the foreign political activity of the state, condu ...
Viktor Yushchenko
Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko ( uk, Віктор Андрійович Ющенко, ; born 23 February 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who was the third president of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010.
As an informal leader of th ...
signed a decree conferring the national status on the Lviv State Music Academy.
Recent and current teachers at LNMA include: composers
Mykola Kolessa
Mykola Filaretovich Kolessa (6 December 1903 – 8 June 2006) was a Ukrainian composer and conductor, born in Sambir near Lviv.
His father Filaret was a Ukrainian ethnomusicologist and composer and his cousin was the pianist Lubka Kolessa. ...
,
Myroslav Skoryk
Myroslav Mykhailovych Skoryk ( uk, Мирослав Михайлович Скорик; 13 July 1938 – 1 June 2020) was a Ukrainian composer and teacher. His music is contemporary in style and contains idioms from diverse sources including G ...
, conductor
Yuri Lutsiv, Maria Boyko, organist Vladimir Ignatenko, professor of singing Igor Kushpler, violinist Lydia Shutko, director Igor Pilatyuk, pianist Oleg Krishtalsky, pianist Maria Krushelnytska, pianist Josef Ermin, pianist Ethella Chuprik, and others.
Directors
*
Karol Mikuli
Karol Mikuli, often seen as Charles Mikuli ( hy, Կարոլ Միկուլի or Կարոլ Պստիկյան; 22 October 1821 – 21 May 1897) was a Polish pianist, composer, conductor and teacher. His students included Moriz Rosenthal, Raoul Koczals ...
* Mieczyslaw Soltys (1899–1929)
* Adam Soltys (1929–1939)
Notable teachers
*
Hadzhera Avidzba,
Abkhazia's first professional pianist
*
Alexander Eidelmann
*
Volodymyr Flys, choral composer
* Alexander Kozarenko
*
Vilem Kurz
* Lidiya Shutko
* Stanislav Lyudkevich
* Stefania Pavlyshyn
Notable Lviv Conservatory alumni
*
Marcella Sembrich
Prakseda Marcelina Kochańska (February 15, 1858 – January 11, 1935), known professionally as Marcella Sembrich, was a Polish coloratura soprano. She is known for her extensive range of two and a half octaves, precise intonation, charm, porta ...
1858–1935, soprano
*
Moritz Rosenthal 1862–1946, pianist
*
Solomiya Krushelnytska 1872–1952, soprano
*
Bertha Kalich 1874–1939, actress
*
Raoul Koczalski
Raoul Armand Jerzy (von) Koczalski (3 January 1884 – 24 November 1948) was a Polish pianist and composer. He also used the pseudonym Georg Armand(o) Koczalski.
Career
Born in Warsaw, Koczalski was taught first by his mother, then by Julian Gad ...
1884–1948, pianist
*
Vasyl Barvinsky
Vasyl Oleksandrovych Barvinsky ( uk, Василь Олександрович Барвінський) (20 February 1888 – 9 June 1963) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and music related social figure.
Barvinsk ...
1888–1963, composer
*
Josef Munclinger 1888–1954, Czech bass
*
Eduard Steuermann
Eduard Steuermann (June 18, 1892 in Sambor, Austro-Hungarian Empire – November 11, 1964 in New York City) was an Austrian (and later American) pianist and composer.
Steuermann studied piano with Vilém Kurz at the Lemberg Conservatory and Fer ...
1892–1964, pianist
*
Stefan Askenase
Stefan Askenase (10 July 189618 October 1985) was a Polish-Belgian classical pianist and pedagogue.
Biography
Askenase was born in Lviv, then known as Lemberg, into a Jewish family.
At the age of five he began playing the piano with his mothe ...
1896–1985, pianist
*
Irena Turkevycz-Martynec 1899-1983 soprano
*
Roman Palester
Roman Palester (28 December 1907 – 25 August 1989) was a Polish composer of classical music. Palester composed his most significant work during the 1960s and was the first Polish musician to be awarded the Alfred Jurzykowski Prize in 1964. ...
1907-1989, Polish composer
*
Walter V. Bozyk 1908–1991, bandura player
*
Joseph Beer
Joseph Beer (; 7 May 1908 – 23 November 1987) was a composer who worked mainly in the genres of operettas, singspiele, and operas.
Beer started composing music as a young man in Vienna in the 1930s. His operettas ' and ' premiered at the Z ...
1908–1987, composer of operettas
*
Volodymyr Ivasyuk
Volodymyr Mykhailovych Ivasyuk or Volodymyr Ivasiuk ( uk, Володи́мир Миха́йлович Івасю́к) (4 March 1949 – 24–27 April 1979) was a Ukrainian songwriter, composer and poet. He is the author and composer of the wid ...
1949–1979, composer
*
Igor Matsiyevsky
Igor Vladimirovich Matsiyevsky (uk: Мацієвський Ігор Володимирович, ru: Мациевский, Игорь Владимирович, born 1941) is a Ukrainian film music composer and music ethnographer.
Matsiyevsky was ...
b. 1941, pedagogue
*
Oksana Bilozir
Oksana Volodymyrivna Bilozir ( uk, Оксана Володимирівна Білозір), née Rozumkevych ( uk, Розумкевич), is a People's Artist of Ukraine (1994), former People's Deputy of Ukraine and in 2005 Minister of Culture ...
b. 1957, Ukrainian pop-singer and political activist
*
Roman Yakub Roman Yakub (born 1958) is a composer who received his early musical training in Lviv, Ukraine. He graduated from Lviv Conservatory in 1982 with a diploma in Music Composition. In 1991, he moved to the United States, where he earned a master's degre ...
b. 1958, electronic composer in USA
*
Taras Chubay
Taras Hryhorovych Chubay ( uk, Тарас Григорович Чубай), (born on 21 June 1970 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian musician and poet, singer and composer, leader of the Ukrainian rock band Plach Yeremiyi.
Biography and personal life
Tar ...
b. 1970, Ukrainian pop-singer
*
Ruslana
Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko ( uk, Руслана Степанівна Лижичко, ''Ruslana Lyzhychko''; born 24 May 1973), known mononymously as Ruslana, is a World Music Award and Eurovision Song Contest winning recording artist, holding ...
b. 1973, Ukrainian pop-singer, winner of the
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...
*
Bohdana Frolyak, b. 1968, composer
*
Hanna Havrylets', b. 1958, composer
*
Ludmila Anatolievna Yaroshevskaya Ludmila Anatolievna Yaroshevskaya (14 September 1906 – 27 March 1975) was a Soviet composer, pianist, and concertmistress. A native of Kiev, she studied piano with V. Pukhalsky at the Lysenko Music School there, graduating in 1930. She was concer ...
1906-1975, composer
*
Zhou Shen
Zhou Shen (; born ), also known as Charlie Zhou, is a Chinese singer known for his ethereal voice and wide vocal range, capable of singing soprano. He is best known for his song "Big Fish", which has won 8 awards. In November 2017, Zhou releas ...
, b. 1992, Chinese pop-singer
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