Stanyslav Pylypovych Lyudkevych was a Ukrainian composer, theorist, teacher, and musical activist.
Background
Lyudkevych was born in 1879 in Jarosław in present-day Poland. Although he initially learned music theory privately from his mother who was a pianist, Lyudkevych studied with Mieczyslaw Soltys in Lviv and with O. Tsemlinsky and H. Hredener in Vienna.
Education
He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in musicology in Vienna, 1908. From 1898 to 1907 he studied philosophy in the Lviv University.
Career
His name may alternatively be spelled as Stanislaw Ludkiewicz (Polish) or Stanislav Filipovich Ludkevich (Russian). From 1901, Lyudkevych worked as a teacher in Lviv and Przemyśl. From 1905 to 1907, Lyudkevych was an editor of the magazine "Artistic Bulletin".
He was one of the organizers of the higher musical institute in Lviv named after Mykola Lysenko, in 1910—1915 he was its director, and from 1919, teacher of theoretical disciplines and inspector of legal entities.
He worked with the choirs Boyan, Bandurist, Surma. In 1936, Lyudkevych became head of the musicological commission of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.
In 1939-1972, he was a professor in the institute named after Mykola Lysenko. He died on September 10, 1979 in Lviv.
1964 — State Prize of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the name of Taras Shevchenko for his Symphony-Canata "Caucasus" and his vocal-symphonic cantata "Zapovit" based on words by Taras Shevchenko.
Politics
1979 — Hero of Socialist Work.