On August 18, 2017, the Verkhovna Rada approved the draft Decree of the President of Ukraine "On Granting the Lviv Regional Philharmonic the Status of a National Institution.
The sculptural decoration of the building's facades, including reliefs depicting musical instruments and two metal sculptures of swans in the attic, was made by sculptor Piotr Witalis Harasimowicz, and the interior of the two-tiered concert hall was decorated with busts of composers by sculptor Luna Drexlerówna.
[4][5][6][7] In the postwar period, the building housed the concert hall of the Lysenko Conservatory[8] and since the 1940s it has been home to the Lviv Regional Philharmonic.
The Philharmonic building is listed in the Register of Architectural Monuments of Local Significance under protection number 374-m.[9] Solomiya Krushelnytska, Oleksandr Myshuga, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, Bela Bartok, Anton Rubinstein, Ferruccio Busoni, Marguerite Long, Wanda Landowska, Pablo Casals, Jacob Milstein, Leopold Godowski, Sviatoslav Richter,[10] Rudolf Kerer, Leonid Kogan, David Oistrakh, Liana Isakadze, Bella Rudenko, Vira Hornostaieva, Natalia Gutman, and Yuri Bashmet have performed on the stage of the Lviv Philharmonic.
Dmitri Shostakovich, Borys Liatoshynsky, Aram Khachaturian, Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, Krzysztof Penderecki, Pawel Albinsky, Michael Striharz, Rafael Serrallet,[11] Valentyn Silvestrov, Myroslav Skoryk, and Yevhen Stankovych gave recitals at the Philharmonic.