Polish Composers

[Timtin]

This looks to be an interesting new addition to IMSLP by Albert Sowinski:-
http://imslp.org/wiki/Grandes_%C3%A9tud ... _Albert%29

[fleubis]

Thanks Timtin for finding those very interesting--and playable!-- Sowinski etudes. I especially like Etude No.5 from Book 1 for the left hand.

[Alkan81]

interesting!! Maybe will appear any more pieces by Sowinski and Antoni Kontski [Kątski]

[Scriabinoff]

there has been a few (I think 3 so far) of his works uploaded so far. We must try to get some more!!

Mikuli, Karol (Narcyz) [Miculi, Carol (Carl)]

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(b Czernowitz [now Chernovtsy], 20 Oct 1819; d Lemberg [now L′viv], 21 May 1897).

Polish pianist, composer, conductor and teacher. According to an unpublished history of the family written in 1935 by Karol's nephew Stefan Mikuli, Familie Ritter von Mikuli, Mikuli came from an Armenian merchant family named Aksanian which settled in Moldavia; Stefan also gave Karol's date of birth as 22 October 1821. Mikuli studied medicine in Vienna for a year, and in 1841 moved to Paris, where until 1847 he was a pupil of Chopin. His circle included Alfred de Musset, H. Heine, George Sand and F. Liszt, who became a lifelong friend. He also studied composition under N.H. Reber. As a pianist he made successful tours of France, Austria, Russia, Italy, Poland and Romania. In 1858 he settled permanently in Lemberg and became artistic director of the Galician Music Society, whose symphony orchestra and chorus he conducted, and with which he introduced Schumann's orchestral music to Poland. He was also director and professor of the Lemberg Conservatory, where he taught the piano, composition and theory. After 1887 he opened a separate piano school which he ran with his wife, S. Kluczenko. Among his pupils were Raoul Koczalski, Stanislaw Niewiadomsk and Mieczyslaw Soltys. In the last years of his life he suffered from a persecution mania and withdrew from active musical life.

Mikuli composed a large number of piano works (for two and four hands) as virtuoso practice pieces, often in the form of lyrical miniatures and dances. He also wrote chamber music, songs and choral works, such as the mass composed for the consecration of Czernowitz Cathedral. The chamber music includes numerous paraphrases and arrangements of popular works; all his music is in an early Romantic style. His 1864 textbook Der Canon remains unpublished, but his Chopin edition (Leipzig, 1879) long enjoyed wide circulation. As a pupil for whom Chopin had a high regard, and whom he made his assistant, Mikuli was able to take into account the directions and remarks of the composer himself.

Bibliography
SMP
M. Biernacki: ‘Karol Mikuli’, Echo muzyczne, teatralne i artystyczne, xiv (1897), 253–5
M. Sołtys: ‘Karol Mikuli’, Wiadomości artystyczne, xi (1897), 13–16
R. Koczalski: ‘Jak grał i uczył Karol Mikuli’ [How Karol Mikuli played and taught], Muzyka, xiv (1937), 216–18
O. Beu: ‘Carol Mikuli, un prieten român al lui Chopin’ [Karol Mikuli, Chopin's Romanian friend], Studii muzicologice, vi (1957), 43
Z. Vancea: ‘Der Chopin Schüler Carol Mikuli, ein Bindeglied zwischen rumänischer und polnischer Musikkultur’, The Works of Frederick Chopin [Warsaw
1960], ed. Z. Lissa (Warsaw, 1963), 410–12
H. Federhofer: ‘Der Chopin-Schüler Carl Mikuli in Rom und Graz’, DJbM, x (1965), 82–96
J. Bloch and S. Arzruni: ‘Composer Spotlight: Karl Mikuli’, Keyboard Classics, ix/2 (1989), 42–5 [incl. score of Doina]
Jerzy Morawski
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Mikuli, Karol (1819-1897) - Doina.pdf

Uploader edit - note that I placed him here in the name of 'tradition' as his work is already in this thread. The article in the scan is worth a read to see how many different national groups claim him as his own, with the strongest vote going to him being Amrenian, so perhaps he should be included in that board? You can see it gets confusing, so I left him here to make him easy to find.

[musiclife217]

has anyone seen the Zelenski score for Op. 11 - 2 Morceaux de Salon - a nocturne and a romance???

[musiclife217]

In the meantime, here is some Fontana..

Jules Fontana - Elegie op.7.pdf

Thank you. That one was not available on the general Fontana music site:
http://www.julianfontana.com/music/music.html

as I always love a good 19th-C. nocturne, I am wondering if Fontana's Op. 20 Nocturne has surfaced anywhere? It is also not available on the main site.

[promusician]

as I always love a good 19th-C. nocturne, I am wondering if Fontana's Op. 20 Nocturne has surfaced anywhere? It is also not available on the main site.

I have contacted Bill Rodriguez and he say he don't have a copy, he forwarded my message to Hubert Rutkowski but still, no avail, Berlin State Library seems to be the last resort, together, with the unknown Mikuli nocturnes, op.19.

[musiclife217]

as I always love a good 19th-C. nocturne, I am wondering if Fontana's Op. 20 Nocturne has surfaced anywhere? It is also not available on the main site.

I have contacted Bill Rodriguez and he say he don't have a copy, he forwarded my message to Hubert Rutkowski but still, no avail, Berlin State Library seems to be the last resort, together, with the unknown Mikuli nocturnes, op.19.

Perhaps we can try to write to the main Fontana website? This piece was recorded as a "bonus" on the Acte Prealable Fontana piano works Vol. 3.

[promusician]

Perhaps we can try to write to the main Fontana website? This piece was recorded as a "bonus" on the Acte Prealable Fontana piano works Vol. 3.

the admin of the main fontana site is Bill Rodriguez. I have not aware of the bonus track (disc?) that has been released as when vol.3 is first released, 3 pieces including the nocturne has not been track down. Anyway, I have emailed Lawrynowicz for the score.

[promusician]

Together with the elegie, op.7 posted earlier, all scores missing from the main fontana site (except 4) are here, all scans are provided by kind efforts of William Rodriguez:

Julian Fontana - Deux Caprices op.1 - Marcia funebre.pdf

Julian Fontana - Deux Caprices op.1 - L'Inquietude.pdf

Julian Fontana - 12 Morceaux Caracteristiques Liv.1.pdf

Julian Fontana - 12 Morceaux Caracteristiques Liv.2.pdf

Julian Fontana - Deux Mazurkas op.15.pdf