ABSTRACT
Composer Denys Volodymyrovych Sichynsky (1865–1909) was born and lived in Galicia at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His compositions include numerous works for symphony and chamber orchestras, a liturgical score, a choral cantata, and approximately 20 songs to texts by famous Ukrainian and Europeans poets (Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesia Ukrainka, and Heinrich Heine). 2 Sichynsky was a very active figure on the musical scenes of Lviv, Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk), Berezhany, and Kolomyia at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He organized and conducted music concerts and performances, and he actively participated in establishing the first “Боян” [‘Boyan’] 3 society of music and song in Lviv and several of its branches throughout Galicia and Bukovyna. He also founded a music school in Stanislaviv and set up a wing of the “Музична бібліотека” (“Muzychna Biblioteka”) [‘Music Library’] association, which printed works by Ukrainian composers.
