Tadeusz Szeligowski (13 September 1896 - 10 January 1963) was a Polish

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and music organizer. His works include the operas ''The Rise of the Scholars'', ''Krakatuk'' and ''Theodor Gentlemen'', the ballets ''The Peacock and the Girl'' and ''Mazepa ballets'', two violin concertos,

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and

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works. As a music teacher, Szeligowski was very well established in

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and

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. He was also a respected music writer who frequently wrote for journals and magazines specialized in music such as the ''

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'', '' Tygodnik Wileński'', '' Muzyka'' and the '' Kurier Poznański''. His achievements include the creation of the Poznan´ Philharmonic, where he served as its first director between the years 1947-1949, and the founding of the Poznań Musical Spring, one of the most important festivals of contemporary music at the time.

Life and work

Musical education

Tadeusz Szeligowski was born on 13 September 1896 in

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, then in

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Galicia and now in western

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. Szeligowski’s first music and piano teacher was his mother. Later he began studying music at the Conservatory of Music of the Polish Society in L'vov in the years 1910-1914, where he studied piano under the direction of Vilem Kurz, and then from 1918-1923 in

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, where he studied piano with H. Peters, and composition with Bolesław Wallek-Walewski. Szeligowski's further education included

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with

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and law at the

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in Kraków, where he received his

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in 1922. There he found work as repetiteur at the Kraków Opera House, allowing him to become well acquainted with the opera repertoire. He complemented his studies in music in the years 1929-1931 in

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, where he met many composers of his time such as

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and

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. There he studied composition with

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and orchestration with

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. There he attended many concerts and intensely experienced the latest compositions by

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productions of many famous companies, as well as highly acclaimed performances by

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Musical career

In 1923 Szeligowski worked in Vilnius,

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(then part of the

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), as lawyer and

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at the Conservatory of Music. There he met

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and became a great admirer of his music. He also worked with a dramatic theatre called Reduta, composing music for many of its productions. Shortly after his return to Poland in 1931, he began teaching music in Poznań until 1939, and then moved to Lublin for a little while after

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. From 1947-1962 he worked for The State Higher School Of Music () in Poznań, and from 1947-1950 he became director of the National Opera Academy, when on his own initiative the Poznań

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was created. In addition, he was the initiator of the festival of contemporary music, the "Poznań Musical Spring", where modern music was then presented in all its glory, and one of the organizers of the H. Wieniawski International Violin Competition. From 1951-1962 Szeligowski worked in

, first for the faculty of the

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in Warsaw, and later as director of the Polish Society of Composers. Poznan 10-2013 img07 Philharmony

A large group of his graduates on composition include:

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, Wojciech Lukaszewski, Tadeusz Wojciech Maklakiewicz, Boleslaw Ocias, Witold Rudzinski, Marek Sart, Janina Skowronska, Aleksander Szeligowski and Antoni Szuniewicz.

As a music writer

Lvov’s musical scene at that time included a city opera, a symphonic orchestra, a music society and also a conservatory of music, and there Szeligowski was very active as a social organizer. Musicians such as

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and Oscar Nedbal usually visited the city and frequently performed works by

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and

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. From 1951-1954 he served as chairman of the Polish Composers Union, and from 1953 he worked for the Board of Polish Music Publishers and the Central Pedagogical Office for Arts Education (COPSA). Tadeusz Szeligowski died in Poznań on 10 January 1963 and since 1965 he has been buried in the Poznań Skalka crypt of Merit.

Awards

Szeligowski received numerous awards, among them: * * * * * * Also, he received numerous prizes and awards, including: * The City of

Music Prize * * *

Compositions

Instrumental

Orchestral works

*''The Peasant King'' -

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to the comedy of Piotr Baryka for orchestra (1926) *''Kaziuki - St. Casimir's Day,'' suite for orchestra (1928–29) *''Concerto'' for Orchestra (1930) *''Archaic Suite'' for orchestra (1930) *''Little Suite'' for orchestra (1931) *''Clarinet Concerto'' (1933) *''Andante'' for clarinet and orchestra (1933) *''Blue Bird'' - suite for orchestra (1936) *''

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on the death of

'' for string orchestra (1937) *''Carol Suite'' for string orchestra (1939) *''Piano Concerto'' (1941) *''Suite'' for small orchestra of Lublin (1945) *''Kupałowa night'' - suite for orchestra (1945) *''Nocturno'' for orchestra (1947) *''Comedy Overture'' for small symphony orchestra (1952) *''The peacock and girl'' ballet suite for orchestra (1953) *''Four Polish Dances'' for symphony orchestra (1954)

Chamber music

*''Lithuanian Song'' for violin and piano (1928) *''String Quartet'' No. 1 (1928–29) *''

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'' for 4 voices, instrumental or vocal (1931) *''String Quartet'' No. 2 (1934-1935) *''Trio'' for oboe, viola and cello (1935) *''Fish ball'', song for children's team (1937) *''Air grave et gai air'' for English horn and piano (1940) *''Nocturno'' for cello and piano (1943) *''Dance'' for cello and piano (1943–45) *''Poem'' for cello and piano (1943–45) *''Pastorale'' for cello and organ (1943–45) *''

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'' for cello and organ (1943–45) *''Orientale'' for Cello and Piano (1945) *''Quintet'' for wind instruments (1953) *''Sonata'' for flute and piano (1953) *''On the meadow'', suite for 2 pianos (1955) *''Trio'' for violin, cello and piano (1955-1956) *''Polish love songs'' for recorders (1959)

Solos (Pianoforte)

*''Variations on a folk song'' for piano (1927) *''Guitars of Zalamea'', for piano (1938–39) *''Sonatina'' for piano (1940–41) *''Russian Dance'', for piano (1942) *''Sonata'' in d minor for piano (1949) *''Two etudes on double sounds'' for piano (1952) *''Small pieces'' for piano (1952) *''Odds and ends for four hands'', for piano (1952)

Vocal Score

For solo voices

*''Nos qui sumus'' - ''motet'' for two male voices (1929) *''O vos omnes'' - motet for three female voices (1929) *''Timor et tremor'' - motet for

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and

tenor A tenor is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The lo ...

(1929) *''Missa de Angelis'' for 3 female voices (1942) *''

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'' for three female voices (1943 ) *'' Regina Coeli Laetare'' for 3 female voices (1943) *''Populations meus'' for 3 female voices (1943) *''Veni Creator'' for 3 female voices (1943)

For choir a cappella

*''Two

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ian songs'' for mixed choir (1930) *''Under the canopy of snow'' - Christmas carol for mixed choir (1933–34) *''Angela sang sweetly'' - motet for mixed choir (1934) *''Quail'' - Belarusian folk song for male choir (1934) *''Regina Coeli Laetare'' for mixed choir (1934) *''Already we have time'' for male choir (1935) *''Song of the sailors'', for mixed choir (1938) *''

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Joyful in memoriam of

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'' for mixed choir (1938) *''

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'' for choir (1942) *''

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'' for mixed choir (1943) *''

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'' in mixed choir (1943) *''Five folk songs from Lublin region'' for choir female or child (1945) *''Five folk songs from the Lublin region'' for 3 mixed choir (1945) *''Four wedding songs from the Lublin region'' for mixed choir (1945) *''Koszalka - Opałka'',

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for male choir (1946) *''A wyjrzyjcież'', youths, song for mixed choir (1948) *''Song of the 10th anniversary'' ersion IIfor mixed choir a cappella (1955) *''Psalm CXVI "Laudate Dominum"'' for mixed choir and boys' (1960)

Vocal and instrumental

For voice and piano

*''Wanda'', song for voice and piano (1927) *''Lithuanian folk songs'' for voice and piano (1927) *''Song of the green'' for voice and piano (1929) *''Lilies'' -

ballad A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French ''chanson balladée'' or ''ballade'', which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and ...

for voice and piano (1929) *''Oaks'' -

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for voice and piano (1929) *''In alder'' -

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for voice and piano (1929) *''Hops'' - wedding song for voice and piano (1929) *''Floral allegories'' for voice and piano (1934) *''Songs to the words of

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'' for voice and piano (1945) *''Green brzózko'', song for voice and piano (1947) *''My Girl'', song for voice and piano (1947) *''The Rose Highway'', song for voice and piano (1947) *''

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'' for tenor and piano (1949) *''

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'' for tenor and piano (1949) *''

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'' for soprano and piano (1949) *''The Ballad of Kostka Napierski'' for voice and piano (1951) *''With three Mauretankach'',

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for voice and piano (1953) *''Soledad'' for voice and piano (1960)

For various vocal and instrumental ensembles

*''Psalm XVI'' -

oratorio An oratorio () is a large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists. Like most operas, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an instrumental ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias. However, opera is mus ...

(1931) *''Latin Mass'' for mixed choir and

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(1932) *''Cherry Blues'' for

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and piano (1934) *''Ave Maria'' for

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, female choir and organ (1943) *''

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'' for soprano and organ (1943) *''Sit down everybody around us'', suite 12 popular songs from the years 1810 to 1875 for mixed choir (or soprano and alto) and piano (1945) *''

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'' for soprano and orchestra (1946) *''

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for sport "100 m"'' for solo voice, choir and orchestra (1948) *''Wedding Suite'' for

, female chorus, mixed chorus and piano (1948) *''Wedding in Lublin'' for soprano, mixed choir and small orchestra (1948) *''The young master and a girl'', musical dialogue for soprano,

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, mixed choir and orchestra or piano (1948-1949) *''

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'' for soprano and orchestra (1949) *''Of hearts card'', cantata for soprano, mixed choir and symphony orchestra (1952) *''Sophie'', suite for choir and orchestra (1952) *''Renegade'', ballad for bass and orchestra or piano (1953) *''Song of the 10th anniversary'' ersionfor choir

Stage works

*''The peacock and the girl'',

in 3 acts (1948) *''Bunt żaków'' (Student Rebellion),

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in 4 acts (1951) *''Krakatuk'', opera in 3 acts with a prologue (1954) *''

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'', ballet in 3 acts (1958) *''Theodore Gentleman'', opera in 2 acts ( 1960)

Selected bibliography

#Zofia, Lissa; ''Rise of scholars'', Tadeusz Szeligowski, PWM, Kraków 1957 #Rozmowy ''"Movement Music". Says Tadeusz Szeligowski'', Movement Music 1959 #Podhajski, Marek; ''Tadeusz Szeligowski: counterpoint studies with Nadia Boulanger'', Res Fact No. 8, PWM, Kraków 1977 #Szantruczek, Tadeusz; ''Compose... and die. The thing about Tadeusz Szeligowski'', Ars Nova, Poznan 1997 #Szeligowski, Tadeusz; (biography), in: ''Encyclopedia of Music'', ed. by A. Chodkowski, OWN, Warsaw 2001, p. 866 #Szeligowski, Tadeusz; (biography), in: M. Hanuszewska B. Schaeffer, ''Polish Almanac of contemporary composers'', PWM, Kraków 1982, p. 263-265 #Szeligowski, Tadeusz; Stud''ies and Memories'', edited by F. Wozniak,

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1987 #Szeligowski, Tadeusz; ''Around the author and his works'', ed. by T. Brodniewicz, J. Kempinski, J. Tatar, Ars Nova, Poznan 1998 #Szeligowski, Tadeusz; ''The 10th anniversary of the composer's death, the materials of the scientific session'', Academy of Music,

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1973

References

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External links

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The Poznan School of Music
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