Filaret Kolessa

Filaret Kolessa
Філарет Михайлович Колесса
Kolessa, photographed before 1912
Born
Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa

(1871-07-17)17 July 1871
Tatarske, Galicia (now Pishchany, Ukraine)
Died3 March 1947(1947-03-03) (aged 75)
CitizenshipUkrainian
OccupationsUkrainian composer ethnographer, folklorist, musicologist, literary critic

Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa (Ukrainian: Філарет Михайлович Колесса; 17 July 1871 – 3 March 1947) was a Ukrainian composer ethnographer, folklorist, musicologist and literary critic. 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.