Bolesław Szabelski (3 December 1896 in Radoryż – 27 August 1979 in

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) was a Polish composer of

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classical music. While his style shifted and varied over the course of his life, he is best known for his

atonal Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key. ''Atonality'', in this sense, usually describes compositions written from about the early 20th-century to the present day, where a hierarchy of harmonies focusing on ...

work composed during the 1950s and 1960s. Szabelski studied at the Polish Musical Society School with Łysakowski in 1915."Szabelski, Bolesław". The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, 1996 He attended the

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. Between 1929 and 1939, he taught organ and composition at the Conservatoire of Katowice. Szabelski began working in the neoclassical and romanticism modes typical of the early 20th century. He adopted the serialist technique in the 1950s and was one of a number of Polish New Wave composers to embrace atonality. His early work had been characterised by monumental forms and fanfare motifsRappoport-Gelfand, 150 and Szabelski adapted to the new aesthetic while retaining his old signatures. As a result, he developed a style described as "strikingly innovative". He composed five symphonies (1926, 1934, 1951, 1956 and 1968), as well as concertos, chamber and choral works. Szabelski was highly influential on the " New Polish School" composers of the early 1950s and had a formative influence on his student

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Works

Honours and awards

* 1959 - Commander's Cross of the

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* 1961, 1967 - Award of the Association of Polish Composers * 1972 - 1000 Anniversary Medal of the Polish State * 1976 - Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta *

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Class I and many state awards and prizes

References

Sources

* Rappoport-Gelfand, Lidia. ''Musical life in Poland: the postwar years, 1945-1977''. &B Arts International, 1991.

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