Filiaret Kolessa (1871–1947) was a musicologist, folklorist, and composer. A graduate of the Universities of Lviv and Vienna, he taught at several gymnasia in Galicia before being appointed Professor at Lviv University in 1939. He has written extensively on Ukrainian folk songs and dumas while his studies on Subcarpathian, Polisian, and Lemko folk songs were pioneering works on Ukrainian musical dialects.