Polish Composers

[parag]

I have inquired about scores by this composer (and student of Schumann) in the past but have never seen a single score.
http://www.answers.com/topic/natalia-janotha

Would anyone have anything at all by her? I am very intrigued...

Thanks,
Parag

[Riodk]

I have one piece by her father Juliusz. In a copyright print though.

Riodk

[ilu]

Juliusz Janotha:

Check this site:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhoDP5oF9wA

Ilu.

[Caprotti]

Janotha, Natalie

Ave Maria Op.13 / Janotha
Pubblicazione London : Ashdown, c1898
Biblioteca musicale governativa del Conservatorio di musica S. Cecilia - Roma - RM - [fondo/segnatura] Accademico - B 170/30

there are really many scores of her in the german libraries and at British Library, ses the KVK catalogue !!
http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk.html

[Scharwenka790]

Here's some Janotha to get you started.

Janotha op.6 Mazurka.pdf

Mike

[parag]

Here's some Janotha to get you started.

Janotha op.6 Mazurka.pdf

Mike

WOW... thank you thank you thank you!!! Incredible find. Many more thanks.

Best regards,
Parag

[Riodk]

Wonderful,

Thanks Mike !

Riodk

[Scharwenka790]

Those of you who frequent the Husum piano festival may remember that last year Jonathan Plowright played Stanislaw Niewiadomski's Theme and Variations .
I've been meaning to scan this for some time but was somewhat daunted by the terribly browned paper. Finally I've had a go, and a bit of trial and error has produced a tolerable result; black and white text scanning produced far too many artifacts so it's been done as a lightened grayscale.

Niewiadomski Theme et Variations.pdf

Perhaps, if we're lucky, Malcolm might see fit to add some edifying biographical detail!
(Also note, Malcolm, all the exciting works listed on the back cover )

[ilu]

Stanisław Niewiadomski, composer, pedagogue, conductor, columnist and music critic; born 4 November 1857 in Soposzyn near Żółkiew; died 15 August 1936 in Lvov.

Niewiadomski first studied under Karol Mikuli at the Galician Music Society Conservatory in Lvov. His debut as a composer was the cantata "Akt wiary / Act of Faith" for bass, male choir and orchestra, which he wrote on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the November 1831 Rising. The acclaim it won made him choose music as a career and so he studied composition in 1882-5, first under Franz Krenn at the Vienna Conservatory of Friends of Music and then under Salomon Jadassohn at the Royal Music Conservatory in Leipzig.

Upon his return to Lvov he became an active pedagogue, music critic and champion of music life. Initially a tutor at Count Skarbek's Theatre, in 1886-7 he co-managed it as art director of the opera and operetta. In 1887 he took professorship at the Galician Music Society Conservatory in Lvov, a tenure which he was to hold until 1918 and which consisted of lecturing on the theory of music, harmonics and history of music as well as running the choral singing class. Parallel to that, he was the second conductor - alongside Stanisław Cetwiński - of the Lutnia-Macierz Singing Society in 1885-92 and taught choral singing in the Society's singing school in 1888-92. From 1890 to 1900 he sat on the commission supervising the artistic aspect of Count Skarbek's Theatre. By that time he had been heavily involved in music criticism, writing reports and reviews for the Lvov newspapers "Gazeta Lwowska" and "Dziennik Polski" and being a correspondent of the Warsaw journals (EMTA). In 1902-14, however, he narrowed down his contribution as a music reviewer and columnist to "Słowo Polskie".

Niewiadomski spent the time of World War I (1914-18) in Vienna, managing the city's branch of the Lvov Conservatory, an institution which had been organized for the sake of refugees. Its staff was composed mostly of Lvov professors who had been evacuated to Vienna. Upon his return to Lvov in 1918, he assumed the position of manager of the Town Theatre's opera. In 1919 he settled in Warsaw, teaching esthetics, history of music and instrument science at the State Music Conservatory until 1927. In 1924 he founded the Association of Music Writers and Critics, an organization over which he would preside for many years. He was also the first chairman of the Section of Contemporary Polish Composers, established in 1925, and in 1927-31 served as director of the Albert Grudziński Music Institute. During his Warsaw years he continued his journalistic activity, contributing to "Rzeczpospolita", "Warszawianka", "Dzień Polski", "Kurier Polski", "Muzyka", "Gazeta Poranna", "Lwowskie Wiadomości Muzyczne i Literackie", Lvov's "Wiek Nowy", Poznan's "Przegląd Muzyczny", Przemysl's "Orkiestra" and Katowice's "Śpiewak", as well as delivering lectures and papers on the radio and, occasionally, in the philharmonic and the opera. He received the Music Award of the City of Warsaw.

Major compositions:

Orchestral works:
"Symphony in A minor"
"Symphony in B flat major"
Chamber works:
"String quartet in D minor"
Piano works:
"Trzy utwory / Three pieces (Menuet, Barcarolle, Valse)" op. 12
"Dwa utwory / Two pieces (Romanze, Valse-Caprice)" op. 16
"Deux Mazurkas" op. 26
"Liebesfeste" op. 27
"4 Charakterstücke" op. 28
"Quatre morceaux" op. 30
"Polonaise et Krakowiak" op. 31
"6 Morceaux melodiques" op. 34
"Trois danses polonaises"
"Thème et variations in D minor"
Works for male choir:
"Trzy pieśni / Three Songs" op. 5, words by Adam Asnyk (ca. 1888)
"Grób wikinga / A Viking's Grave" op. 22, words by Or-Ot [Artur Oppman] (ca. 1897)
"Zaszumiał las / The Swoosh of the Forest" op. 32, words by Maria Konopnicka (ca. 1885)
"Górskie dzwony / Mountain Bells" op. 32, words by Maria Konopnicka (before 1907)
"Siostrzane dole / Sisters' Fates" op. 32, anonymous words (before 1907)
"Siedzi ptaszek na drzewie / A Bird is Sitting on a Tree" op. 32, words by Adam Asnyk (before 1907)
"Ave Caesar" op. 35, words by Maria Konopnicka
"Hymn polskiej młodzieży / Hymn of the Polish Youth", words by composer
Vocal and instrumental works:
"Akt wiary / Act of Faith", cantata for bass, male choir and orchestra, words by Kornel Ujejski
"Pod kolumną wieszcza / Under the Poet's Monument" op. 25, cantata for male choir and wind instruments or for male choir a cappella, words by Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1898)
Kantata na cześć Marii Konopnickiej "Pieśń hołdu" / Cantata in Honour of Maria Konopnicka "Tribute Song" for solo voices, mixed choir and orchestra, words by Anna Neumanowa
"Modlitwa wiosenna / A Spring Prayer", for mixed choir, piano or orchestra, words by Maria Konopnicka
"Serenada ku uczczeniu Najjaśniejszego Cesarza i Króla Franciszka Józefa I / Serenade in Honour of His Majesty the Emperor and King Franz Josef I" for male choir and orchestra, words by Stanisław Rossowski
"Na Podegrodziu / In Podegrodzie" for bass, male choir, piano or orchestra, words by Stanisław Wyspiański
Pieces for voice and piano:
"Trzy piosnki / Three Songs" op. 1, words by Emanuel Geibel (1873)
"Abdykacja / Abdication" op. 4, words by Adam Asnyk (1888)
"Między nami nic nie było / Nothing Has Happened Between Us" op. 4, words by Adam Asnyk (1888)
"Z ksiąg Genezy / From the Books of Genesis" op. 4, words by Adam Asnyk
"Dwie pieśni / Two Songs" op. 6, words by Maria Konopnicka
"Z wiosennych tchnień / The Breath of Spring", words by Marian Gawalewicz (ca. 1893)
"Jaśkowa dola / Johnny's Fate", words by Maria Konopnicka (1894-98)
"Swaty / The Matchmakers" op. 14, words by Maria Konopnicka (1895)
"Menuet" op. 17, words by François Coppée
"Chanson de printemps" op. 17, words by Armand d'Artois
"BolÉro" op. 17, words by Alfred de Musset
"Kurhanek Maryli / Maryla's Mound", words by Adam Mickiewicz (1897-1907)
"W białym dworku / In the White Manor" op. 37, words by Kazimierz Laskowski (before 1903)
"Astry / Asters" op. 40, words by Adam Asnyk
"Paź i Poliksena / The Page and Polyxene", words by Stanisław Wyspiański
"Słonko / The Little Sun" op. 49, words by Adam Asnyk
"Maki / The Poppies" op. 50, words by Kornel Makuszyński (ca. 1916-18)
"Rota / The Oath", words by Maria Konopnicka
"Hymn do zgody / Hymn to Harmony", words by Jan Kochanowski

From: Culture.pl.

Ilu.

[mballan]

Those of you who frequent the Husum piano festival may remember that last year Jonathan Plowright played Stanislaw Niewiadomski's Theme and Variations .
I've been meaning to scan this for some time but was somewhat daunted by the terribly browned paper. Finally I've had a go, and a bit of trial and error has produced a tolerable result; black and white text scanning produced far too many artifacts so it's been done as a lightened grayscale.

Niewiadomski Theme et Variations.pdf

Perhaps, if we're lucky, Malcolm might see fit to add some edifying biographical detail!
(Also note, Malcolm, all the exciting works listed on the back cover )

Thank you Mike [interesting, and no doubt, a rare score and very useful back cover as you rightly pointed out]...and thank you Ilu for the biographical notes / works list. Trying to hunt down some Janotha for Parag at the moment but floods in Poland not helping my friends over there !

Malcolm