Nestor Nyžankivskyj, ukrajinský žák Vítězslava Nováka

The study provides the basic biographical data and evaluation of the work of a West Ukrainian composer and pianist Nestor Nyzhankivsky (1893–1940), who was educated in music in Lviv and Vienna. Afterwards, he studied in the composition master class of the Czech composer and music teacher Vítězslav Novák at the Prague Conservatoire from 1923 to 1928. He also worked in Prague as a teacher of music theory subjects at the Mykhailo Drahomanov Ukrainian Higher Pedagogical Institute until 1929. After returning to Lviv, he became an important part of the local music scene. He composed, performed as a pianist and taught piano and music theory subjects at the Higher Musical Institute of Mykola Lysenko. Furthermore, he reflected the local music scene as a music critic. From 1934, he was a head of the Union of Ukrainian Professional Musicians. After the annexation of the Eastern Galicia to the Soviet Union, he left his homeland and died in an emigration camp in Lodz, Poland. His compositional work is characterized as a synthesis of the romantic tradition with the tendencies of the modernism and contains the piano and vocal compositions primarily.