Ludwig-Mykola Hladylovych (b. 28 February 1885, Kolomyia - d. 13 January 1967, Katowice) was a Ukrainian and Polish conductor and composer.
Biography.
He was born on 28 February 1885 in the city of Kolomyia (now Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine). In 1905, he studied at the Higher Music Institute (conducting class of Anatol Vakhnyanyn) and at the same time at the Conservatory of the Galician Music Society in Lviv (composition class of Mieczysław Soltys). In 1912-1913, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Sondershausen and at the Leipzig Conservatory in Germany.
He worked as a conductor at German opera and operetta theatres in Naumburg, Tallinn, Riga and Jurieva. In 1914, as an Austrian subject, he was held in Russian captivity in Astrakhan and Saratov. In 1917, he worked as a conductor of the Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre of V. Levytskyi in Tsaritsyn, with which he moved to Kyiv in 1921. From 1922 he worked in Lviv, and from 1924 he worked as a conductor of the Ukrainian Conversation Theatre under the direction of Yosyp Stadnyk.
Since 1925, he has been conducting Polish theatres: Wierzbicki's Detour Opera; in 1926-1930 - the Polish Theatre in Katowice; in 1930-1931 - the City Theatre in Bydgoszcz; in 1932-1934 - the Bolshoi Theatre in Warsaw. From 1935 he was a conductor of choirs and orchestras and a teacher in Kielce, from 1945 - in Bielsko-Biała, from 1951 - in Katowice, where in 1958 he organised a Ukrainian choir. In 1963, he visited Ukraine. He died in Katowice on 13 January 1967.
Works.
In Tsarytsia, he staged operas Natalka-Poltavka by Mykola Lysenko, Cossack Beyond the Danube by Semen Hulak-Artemovsky, Catherine by Mykola Arkas, and Evenings by Petro Nishchynskyi.
At the Russian Folk Theatre, he staged Ukrainian and European operettas, as well as operas The Sold Bride by Bedřich Smetana, Pebbles by Stanislav Moniuszko, and Jidivka by Fromantal Halévy.
As a composer, he wrote works for the Ukrainian choir in Katowice based on the words of Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Maksym Rylskyi, and arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs. For the symphony orchestra, he composed "Wreath of Hutsul Folk Songs".
