The Lviv school is a unique branch of Ukrainian music shaped under Galician conditions: between Austro-Hungarian, Polish, and Ukrainian cultures. It was founded with the Lysenko Higher Music Institute (1903) through the efforts of the Galician intelligentsia.
The central figure was Stanyslav Liudkevych, who lived almost a century and mentored generations. Among its representatives: Vasyl Barvinsky (repressed, ten years in Mordovian camps), Nestor Nyzhankivsky, Anatol Kos-Anatolsky; in the contemporary period — Myroslav Skoryk, Yuriy Laniuk, Bohdana Froliak, Olha Kryvolap. Characteristic traits: (1) affinity for Galician folk song and Carpathian melos; (2) a European horizon (close ties with Vienna, Prague, Warsaw); (3) a spiritual element (the tradition of sacred music of the Galician Greek Catholic Church).
