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Filaret Kolessa
Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa (; 17 July 18713 March 1947) was a List of Ukrainian composers, 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 ethnomusicology, ethnographic musicology. Biography Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa was born on 17 July 1871 in the Galicia (Eastern Europe), 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 University of Lviv, Lviv University in 1896. 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 Thesis, dissertation at the University of Vienna and received the title Doctor of Philology. He studied the rhythms of Ukrainian folk music, Ukr ...
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Galicia (Eastern Europe)
Galicia ( ;"Galicia"
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also known by the Variant name (geography), variant name Galizia; , ; , ; ; see #Origins and variations of the name, below) is a historical and geographic region spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, long part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.See also: It covers much of the other historic regions of Red Ruthenia (centered on Lviv) and Lesser Poland (centered on Kraków). The name of the region derives from the medieval city of Halych, and was first mentioned in Hungarian historical chronicles in the year 1206 as ''Galiciæ''. The eastern part of the region was c ...
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