Daria Sofia Bandrivskyj

Daria-Sofia Bandrivskyj (1902 - 1981) was known in the artistic world as Odarka Bandrivkyj. She was a choir singer and pianist and a pedagogue at the M. Lysenko Higher Music Institute in Lviv. She had studied under Salomea Krushelnytsky. She was also a docent of the Lviv conservatory and a founder of the Salomea Krushelnytsky Museum in Lviv. She gathered countless documents, personal things, photographs tied to the life and career of the famous opera singer Salomea.

The museum is found on Salomea Krushelnytsky Street (previously named Krashevsky Street) which was built in 1884 by city architect Jakub Krokha. The previous owners were S. Bachynsky and later Yu. Horoshkevych. Salomea Krushelnytsky purchased the building in 1903, when she was already a well-known opera singer. She bought it in order to help her family, as after the death of her father Rev. Amvrosij, the family was in a financial crisis. This allowed the family to not only live in Lviv, but earn an income from renting apartments.

To realize the purchase of the building, Salomea turned to her brother-in-law Karlo Bandrivsky (Odarka's father). At that time, the Poles did not want to sell the better buildings in Lviv to Ukrainians. And that is why a purchase was made on a three-storied building with the windows facing the north west side.

The Krushelnytsky family, principally Salomea's mother, three of her sisters (Emilia, Maria and Anna), brother Volodymyr and also Karko Bandrivsky with his wife Osypa and three children, lived on the second floor (with seven rooms, two kitchens and a bath). The first floor was occupied by the Ochrymovych family - with Salomea's sister and her husband and their three children.

In 1978 a memorial plaque was placed on the building facade. In October 1989, the museum started to operate as a branch of the Lviv literary-memorial museum of Ivan Franko, and in 1995 it became an independent state entity. Today it has over 18 thousand museum items from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

БАНДРІ́ВСЬКА Одарка Карлівна (04. 03. 1902, м. Грибів, побл. Кракова, нині Польща – 05. 05. 1981, Львів) – співачка (драматичне сопрано), піаністка, педагог. Сестра В. Бандрівського, небога С. Крушельницької. Закін. Вищий муз. ін-т у Львові (1922; кл. фортепіано М. Криницької, сольний спів – кл. С. Козловської) та гуманітар. ф-т Львів. ун-ту (1927). Удосконалювала піаніст. майстерність у Віден. муз. академії (1922– 23, у проф. Франка), вокальну – у С. Крушельницької (1928–29, Мілан, Віареджо). 1931–39 – викл. співу Вищого муз. ін-ту (Львів). 1939–41 та 1945–63 – доц. Львів. консерваторії, 1941–44 – викл. співу Львів. муз. школи. Гастролювала в Галичині, Польщі, Австрії. Від 1963 – на пенсії. Давала приватні уроки співу, упорядковувала архів С. Крушельницької, який передала Муз.-мемор. музеєві у Львові. [http://esu.com.ua/search_articles.php?id=40253]