Research Library of the Polish Composers' Union
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The time after Chopin in Polish music was a period of the growing influence of German music, particularly of Mendelssohn, Schumann and Wagner....
2022-10-30
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
Professional Western European music had reached Poland long before the manuscripts contained in the Stary Sącz monastic library were compiled. The...
2022-10-29
The history of the Polish musical Baroque opens with Mikołaj Zieleński’s monumental collection Offertoria et Communiones totius anni, published in...
2022-10-29
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...
2022-10-29
The Romanticism in Polish music was preceded by a development of Polish classical songs, piano and symphonic pieces. The first Polish symphony was...
2022-10-29
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...
2022-10-29
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...
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...
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