Mykhailo Verbytskyi

Sources often differ as to the exact location of his birth, with some claiming he was born in Jawornik Ruski[1] and christened 8 km away in Ulucz[3] (the site of the oldest wooden church in Poland where his father was the local priest).

In 1818, Snihurskyi even founded a diak-teaching institute in the city, and ten years later, a cathedral choir and music school.

[4] In 1859 Verbytskyi received a parish in the village of Mlyny, Yavorskyi county, where he would live and work for the rest of his life.

Some of these include Єдинородний Сине (Only-begotten Son), Святий Боже (Holy God), Алилуя (Alleluia), Отче наш (Our Father), and Хваліте Господа з небес (Praise the Lord from the heavens).

Nevertheless, he composed 12 symphonies (overtures), on the sixth of which Stanyslav Lyudkevych based an orchestral piece and a piano trio.

He also composed Zapovit (‘Testament’, 1868), a setting of Shevchenko's poem for bass solo, double choir and orchestra, the operetta Pidhiriany which was staged in Lemberg (now Lviv, 1864), and numerous sacred and secular choral works and songs.

c. 1870 lithograph of Verbytskyi
The church in the village of Mlyny , where Verbystkyi spent much of his life.
Chapel of the over the graves of priests Mykhailo Verbytskyi and Oleksa Velychko in the village of Mlyny.