Stanyslav Pylypovych Lyudkevych (Ukrainian: Станіслав Пилипович Людкевич, Russian: Станислав Филиппович Людкевич; 24 January 1879[1][2] – 10 September 1979[3][4]) was a Soviet and Ukrainiancomposer, theorist, teacher, and musical activist. People's Artist of the USSR (1969) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1979).[5] His name may alternatively be spelled as Stanislaw Ludkiewicz (Polish) or Stanislav Filipovich Ludkevich (Russian).
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, from 1910 until 1915 he was its director,[10] 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.[11] From 1939 until 1972, he was a professor in the institute named after Mykola Lysenko.
He died on September 10, 1979, in Lviv, aged 100.[4]
Monumental cantatas including the symphony-cantatas Caucasus (1905–13) and Zapovit (Will, 1934, 2nd edition 1955) based on words by Taras Shevchenko both for which he won the Republican Prize in the name of Taras Shevchenko in 1964
He was the author of numerous musicological works, was a publicist, and originator and editor of musical publications.
Style
The participation of Lyudkevych in the revolutionary-democratic movement of Western Ukraine lead to the ideological orientation of his activities and works.
Honors
1946 – Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR[12]