Mykola Kolessa (1903–2006) was a Ukrainian composer, conductor and teacher, the son of folklorist Filaret Kolessa. Born in Sambir, he studied composition with Vítězslav Novák at the Prague Conservatory. From 1953 to 1965 he was rector of the Lviv Conservatory, and his textbook Fundamentals of Conducting Technique became the standard for several generations of conductors. He was a Shevchenko Prize laureate (1983) and a Hero of Ukraine (2002).
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