Filaret Kolessa

He was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society from 1909, The All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences [uk] from 1929, and the founder of Ukrainian ethnographic musicology.

He worked with the composer Mykola Lysenko, and the writers Ivan Franko and Lesya Ukrainka.

[3] 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.

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 .
Kolessa in 1937