A well-known theorist and practitioner of bandura making.
Biography
He graduated from the academic gymnasium in Lviv in 1930.
He studied bandura playing with Y. Singalevych and bandura making with K. Misevych. He organized choirs and drama clubs.
In 1939 he was arrested by the NKVD, but managed to escape. During the German occupation, he played in an ensemble with S. Hanushevsky, S. Malyuta, Y. Singalevych, Hryhor Bazhul, and then with Z. Shtokalka, Y. Babuniak, V. Yurkevych, and H. Smyrnyi.
In 1944, he joined the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Bandura Chapel under the direction of Hryhoriy Kitastyi. Together with it, he left Ukraine in the fall of 1944 and went to Germany, settling in Munich.
His stay in the Lviv prison had a bad effect on his health. In the early 1950s, he contracted tuberculosis and, due to an excessive dose of medication, became deaf, which made it impossible for him to work as a bandura player or even a teacher. Therefore, he began collecting and processing theoretical materials, making banduras, and writing about bandura playing methods.
He was buried in Munich at the Waldfriedhof cemetery.
Creative activity
Lastovych-Chulivskyi's works consist of three books:
"Letters about the Bandura". At the request of Myroslav Dyakovsky (USA), one of Zynoviy Shtokal's students, S. Lastovych-Chulivsky sent him letters about the technology of bandura production during 1955-1956. M. Dyakovsky organized these letters and published them in a separate brochure.
In 1959, a collection of Ukrainian folk songs and melodies for bandura: a repertoire of songs and melodies for voice and bandura with a facilitated method of self-study, compiled by M. Dyakovsky, was published in New York. This work served as a textbook and a repertoire collection.
The work "Kobza-Bandura", written in 1964-1966 in Munich, was the result of S. Lastovych-Chulivskyi's activity. In it, he first proposed a systematic approach to the principles of constructive improvement of the bandura. The work was published in 2 volumes, on 653 pages, with many tables and illustrations.
