Emil Szymon Młynarski (; 18 July 18705 April 1935) was a Polish
conductor,
violin
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ist,
composer
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Etymology and Defi ...
, and
pedagogue
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.
Life
Młynarski was born in
Kibarty (Kybartai),
Russian Empire
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, now in
Lithuania
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. He studied violin with
Leopold Auer
Leopold von Auer ( hu, Auer Lipót; June 7, 1845July 15, 1930) was a Hungarian violinist, academic, conductor, composer, and instructor. Many of his students went on to become prominent concert performers and teachers.
Early life and career
Au ...
and composition with
Anatoly Lyadov
Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov (russian: Анато́лий Константи́нович Ля́дов; ) was a Russian composer, teacher, and conductor (music), conductor.
Biography
Lyadov was born in 1855 in Saint Petersburg, St. Petersbur ...
and
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov . At the time, his name was spelled Николай Андреевичъ Римскій-Корсаковъ. la, Nicolaus Andreae filius Rimskij-Korsakov. The composer romanized his name as ''Nicolas Rimsk ...
. He was the founding conductor of the
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
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The orchestra was conceived on ...
and subsequently served as
principal conductor of the
Scottish Orchestra
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in
Glasgow
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from 1910 to 1916. He conducted the premiere of
Karol Szymanowski
Karol Maciej Szymanowski (; 6 October 188229 March 1937) was a Polish composer and pianist. He was a member of the modernist Young Poland movement that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Szymanowski's early works show the inf ...
's opera ''
King Roger
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''.
He composed, among other things, a
symphony
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dedicated to his homeland (Symphony in F major, Op. 14, ''Polonia''), and two violin
concerto
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s (1897, 1917). The latter concerto, in D major, Op. 16, has been recorded by Konstanty Kulka and
Nigel Kennedy
Nigel Kennedy (born 28 December 1956) is an English violinist and violist.
His early career was primarily spent performing classical music, and he has since expanded into jazz, klezmer, and other music genres.
Early life and background
Kenn ...
.
Emil Młynarski died in
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
at age 64. His daughter Wanda married
Wiktor Łabuński. His daughter Aniela (Nela, Nelly) married
Mieczysław Munz
Mieczysław Munz (October 31, 1900, Kraków – August 25, 1976) was a Polish-American pianist.
Munz trained in Vienna and Berlin, with Ferruccio Busoni. He was a teacher of Emanuel Ax, Walter Hautzig, David Oei, Ann Schein, Virginia Rein ...
and later
Arthur Rubinstein
Arthur Rubinstein ( pl, Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 188720 December 1982) was a Polish Americans, Polish-American pianist. . He is the grandfather of
John Rubinstein
John Rubinstein (born December 8, 1946) is an American actor, composer and director.
Early life
Rubinstein is the son of Polish parents. His mother, Aniela (née Młynarska), a dancer and writer, was a Roman Catholic native of Warsaw, the dau ...
and the great-grandfather of
Michael Weston
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, both American actors. He is closely related to the famous Polish poet and singer
Wojciech Młynarski
Wojciech Młynarski (26 March 1941 – 15 March 2017) was a Polish poet, singer, songwriter, translator and director. A well-known figure on the Polish musical scene, he was most famous for his ballads and what is known as sung poetry, as well a ...
(1941–2017) and his daughter Agata Młynarska (born 1965), a Polish celebrity TV journalist.
Among his students were
Pyotr Stolyarsky
Pyotr Solomonovich Stolyarsky (russian: Пётр Соломонович Столярский, uk, Петро Соломонович Столярський), (29 April 1944) was a Soviet violinist and eminent pedagogue, honored as People's A ...
(the teacher of David Oistrakh),
Paul Kochanski
Paul Kochanski (born Paweł Kochański; 30 August 1887 – 12 January 1934) was a Polish violinist, composer and arranger active in the United States.
Training and early career
Paweł Kochański was born in Odesa to Polish-Jewish parent ...
, Alexander Zhitomirsky,
[Alexander Zhitomirsky (Александер Матвеевич Житомирский) (1881-1937)] Paul Kletzki
Paul Kletzki (born Paweł Klecki; 21 March 1900 – 5 March 1973) was a Polish conductor and composer.
Biography
Born in Łódź, Kletzki joined the Łódź Philharmonic at the age of fifteen as a violinist. After serving in the First World Wa ...
, and Wiktor Łabuński.
Selected works
Sortable list of compositions categorized by genre,
opus number
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, date of composition, titles, and scoring
See also
*
List of Poles
This is a partial list of notable Polish or Polish-speaking or -writing people. People of partial Polish heritage have their respective ancestries credited.
Science
Physics
* Czesław Białobrzeski
* Andrzej Buras
* Georges Charpak ...
References
Profile by Malgorzata Kosinska, Polish Music Information Center
External links
*
*
Scores by Emil Młynarskiin digital library
Polona
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Colle ...
1870 births
1935 deaths
19th-century classical composers
20th-century classical composers
Academic staff of the Chopin University of Music
People from Kybartai
Polish male classical composers
Polish classical violinists
Polish conductors (music)
Polish Romantic composers
Russian classical violinists
Male classical violinists
Russian classical composers
Russian male classical composers
19th-century conductors (music)
20th-century Russian conductors (music)
Russian male conductors (music)
20th-century Russian male musicians
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