Research Library of the Polish Composers' Union
Between the two world wars, most Polish composers were associated with the Association des Jeunes Musiciens Polonais, founded in 1926 in Paris. They...
2023-01-08
Born on 3rd October 1882 in Tymoszówka (now Ukraine), died on 29th March 1937 in Lausanne. He spent his childhood in his family’s country estate....
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Born on 11th Dec. 1876 in Wiszniewo, died tragically on 8th Feb. 1909 in the Tatra. He spent his first six years of childhood in the family estate in...
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The group which at the turn of the 19th century opposed the conservative character of Polish music, represented by such composers as Żeleński and...
2022-10-30
![Ignacy Jan Paderewski - Hartsook Photo (San Francisco; Los Angeles), [before 1926]; source: Polona.pl](../zdjecia/Paderewski_Hartsook_Photo_Polona_zmn.jpg)
The time after Chopin in Polish music was a period of the growing influence of German music, particularly of Mendelssohn, Schumann and Wagner....
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Born on 10th July 1835 in Lublin. His father Tadeusz was a renowned surgeon, and his mother Regina née Wolff – an excellent amateur pianist. The...
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Born on 5th May 1819 in Ubiel near Minsk, learned first at home with his mother Elżbieta. Then, from 1827, he learned the piano with August Freyer in...
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A calendar of the composer's life 1810 Fryderyk (Frédéric) Chopin was born on 1st March (or, according to some historians, 22nd February) 1810 in...
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The Romanticism in Polish music was preceded by a development of Polish classical songs, piano and symphonic pieces. The first Polish symphony was...
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The opera – a new musical genre of the Baroque – was brought to Poland on the initiative of Władysław (Ladislaus) Vasa, the king’s son, as...
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The history of the Polish musical Baroque opens with Mikołaj Zieleński’s monumental collection Offertoria et Communiones totius anni, published in...
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Professional Western European music had reached Poland long before the manuscripts contained in the Stary Sącz monastic library were compiled. The...
2022-10-29
On the southern edge of Poland, at the foot of the Beskid Mountains, in the valley of the Poprad River lies a little town - Stary Sącz. Already from...
2022-07-30