Lviv National Music Academy

Lviv National Music Academy
Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy, or informally Lviv Conservatory, is a national musical institution of higher education in Lviv, Ukraine.
History
The LNMA Mykola Lysenko traces its origins to earlier music institutions in Lviv, going back to the 19th century, when Franz Xaver Mozart created the Saint Cecilia Society.
In 1838, the first music society of Lviv was created under the name of Society for Teaching of Music in Galicia. 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, a pupil of Chopin, and in different years among the teachers were Ludwig Marek, Mieczysław Sołtys, his son Adam Sołtys, Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński, Józef Koffler, Ludomir Różycki, Vilém Kurz, Jan Gall, 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, Vasyl Barvinsky, and Roman Palester; pianists such as Moritz Rosenthal, Mieczysław Horszowski, Raoul Koczalski, Stefan Askenase, and Aleksander Michałowski; and singers such as Adam Didur (bass), Solomiya Krushelnytska (soprano), Aleksander Myszuga (tenor), Marcelina Sembrich (coloratura soprano). Among the notable graduates were also Irena Anders, Olga Drahonowska-Małkowska, Henryk Mikolasch, Zofia Terné, and Ida Fink.
As the education in most institutions of higher education in Austro-Hungarian Galicia was carried out mostly in Polish and German languages, in 1903 the Ukrainian minority of Lviv founded a separate Higher Musical Institute of Mykola Lysenko. Its teachers included Stanyslav Lyudkevych and Vasyl Barvinsky, 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 opened a faculty of musicology, led by musicologist Adolf Chybiński. During World War I, 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. After the war, both Polish and Ukrainian societies continued to coexist until 1939. Following the joint Nazi and Soviet invasion of Poland, the city had been occupied by the Soviet Union. Both societies were merged with the University's faculty of musicology into a new Lviv State Conservatory, M.V. Lysenko.
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. 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. 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 Viktor Yushchenko signed a decree conferring the national status on the Lviv State Music Academy.
Recent and current teachers at LNMA include: composers Mykola Kolessa, Myroslav Skoryk, 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
Mieczyslaw Soltys (1899–1929)
Adam Soltys (1929–1939)
Notable teachers
Hadzhera Avidzba, Abkhazia's first professional pianist
Alexander Eidelmann
Volodymyr Flys, choral composer
Halyna Levytska
Alexander Kozarenko
Vilem Kurz
Lidiya Shutko
Stanislav Lyudkevich
Stefania Pavlyshyn
Notable Lviv Conservatory alumni
Marcella Sembrich 1858–1935, soprano
Moritz Rosenthal 1862–1946, pianist
Solomiya Krushelnytska 1872–1952, soprano
Bertha Kalich 1874–1939, actress
Raoul Koczalski 1884–1948, pianist
Vasyl Barvinsky 1888–1963, composer
Josef Munclinger 1888–1954, Czech bass singer
Eduard Steuermann 1892–1964, pianist
Stefan Askenase 1896–1985, pianist
Irena Turkevycz-Martynec 1899-1983 soprano
Roman Palester 1907-1989, Polish composer
Walter V. Bozyk 1908–1991, bandura player
Joseph Beer 1908–1987, composer of operettas
Volodymyr Ivasyuk 1949–1979, composer
Igor Matsiyevsky b. 1941, pedagogue
Oksana Bilozir b. 1957, Ukrainian pop-singer and political activist
Roman Yakub b. 1958, electronic composer in USA
Taras Chubay b. 1970, Ukrainian pop-singer
Ruslana b. 1973, Ukrainian pop-singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner
Bohdana Frolyak, b. 1968, composer
Hanna Havrylets, b. 1958, composer
Ludmila Anatolievna Yaroshevskaya 1906-1975, composer
Zhou Shen, b. 1992, Chinese pop-singer
External links
Львівська національна музична академія ім. Миколи Лисенка (Ukrainian)
1854 establishments in the Austrian Empire
Educational institutions established in 1854
Music schools in Ukraine
Universities and colleges in Lviv
Universities and colleges in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Music schools in Poland