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Biography
Refimprove|date=March 2011Use dmy dates|date=November 2010 Karol Maciej http://pianosociety.com/cms/index.php? section=1821 Piano SocietySzymanowski (IPA-pl|?kar?l ?mat???j ??ma'n?fsk?i; 3 October 1882spaced ndash28 March 1937) was a Polish composer and pianist.
Life
Szymanowski was born into a wealthy land-owning Polish szlachta|gentry family (of the Slepowron Coat of Arms|Korwin/Slepowron coat-of-arms ) in Tymoszówka , then in the Russian Empire , now in Cherkasy Oblast , Ukraine . He studied music privately with his father before going to Gustav Neuhaus ' Elisavetgrad School of Music from 1892. From 1901 he attended the State Conservatory in Warsaw , of which he was later director from 1926 until retiring in 1930. Musical opportunities in Russian-occupied Poland being quite limited at the time, he travelled widely throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and the United States. These travels, especially those to the Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean area, provided much inspiration to the composer and esthete .
The fruits of these trips included not only musical works, but poetry and his novel on Greek love Efebos , parts of which were subsequently lost in a fire in 1939. The central chapter was translated by him into Russian and given as a gift in 1919 to Boris Kochno , who was his beloved at the time. Szymanowski also wrote a number of love poems, in French, to the 15-year-old boy. Among these are Ganymčde , Baedecker , ''N'importe , and Vagabond .
Writing about his novel, Szymanowski said, "In it I expressed much, perhaps all that I have to say on this matter, which is for me very important and very beautiful." It remains available in a German translation as Das Gastmahl. Ein Kapitel aus dem verlorenen Roman Ephebos. citation |title=Das Gastmahl: Ein Kapitel aus dem verlorenen Roman Ephebos |first=Karol |last=Szymanowski |first2=Wolfgang |last2=Jöhling |year=1993 |publisher=Rosa Winkel |place=Berlin |isbn=3-86149-009-9Szymanowski, Eroticism and the Voices of Mythology By Stephen C. Downes pp38-40
Szymanowski maintained a long correspondence with the pianist Jan Smeterlin , who was a significant champion of his piano works. Their correspondence was published by Allegro Press in 1969.Boguslaw Maciejewski and Felix Aprahamian, eds. (). Karol Szymanowski and Jan Smeterlin: Correspondence and Essays . Allegro Press, 1969
Szymanowski died in a sanatorium in Lausanne , Switzerland from tuberculosis .
Influences
Szymanowski was influenced by the music of Richard Wagner , Richard Strauss , Max Reger , Alexander Scriabin and the impressionism of Claude Debussy , and Maurice Ravel . He also drew much influence from his countryman Frédéric Chopin and from Polish folk music. Like Chopin he wrote a number of mazurka s for piano. He was specifically influenced by folk music from the Polish Highlands Górale , which he discovered in Zakopane , in the southern Tatra mountains|Tatra highlands, even writing in an article entitled About Górale Music : "My discovery of the essential beauty of Górale (Polish Highlander) music, dance and architecture is a very personal one; much of this beauty I have absorbed into my innermost soul." (p.& nbsp;97) According to Jim Samson (1977, p.& nbsp;200), it is "played on two fiddles and a string bass," and, "has uniquely 'exotic' characteristics, highly dissonant and with fascinating heterophonic effects." Carefully digesting all these elements, eventually Szymanowski developed a highly individual rhapsodic style and a unique harmonic world of his own.
Works
Main|List of compositions by Karol Szymanowski Among Szymanowski's better known orchestral works are four symphony|symphonies (No. 3, Song of the Night with choir and vocal soloists and No. 4, Symphonie Concertante , with piano concertante) and two violin concerto s. His stage works include the ballet (music)|ballets Harnasie and Mandragora (ballet)|Mandragora and the opera s Hagith (opera)|Hagith and King Roger|Król Roger ('King Roger'). He wrote much piano music, including the four Étude s , Op. 4 (of which No. 3 was once his single most popular piece), many mazurkas and the exquisite and highly individual Métopes . Other works include the Three Myths for violin and piano, the evocative Nocturne and Tarantella (Szymanowski)|Nocturne and Tarantella , two string quartets, a sonata for violin and piano, a number of orchestral songs (some to texts by Hafiz Shirazi|Hafiz and James Joyce ) and his Stabat Mater (Szymanowski)|Stabat Mater , an acknowledged choral masterpiece.
According to Samson (p.& nbsp;131), "Szymanowski adopted no thorough-going alternatives to tonal organization ... the harmonic tensions and relaxations and the melodic phraseology have clear origins in tonal procedure, but ... an underpinning tonal framework has been almost or completely dissolved away."
See also
List of Poles#Music|List of Poles
Young Poland
Notes
Reflist
References
Hubert Kennedy (1994). Karol Szymanowski, his Boy-love Novel, and the Boy he Loved . In Paidika 3.3 Amsterdam
Jim Samson (1977). Music in Transition: A Study of Tonal Expansion and Atonality, 1900–1920 . New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-02193-9.
Készítette : Dr. Nagy-Tóth Andárs & Dr.Fárbás Gergely
Alessandro Martinisi, Il sogno sognato di Karol Szymanowski. Re Ruggero tra luce ed ombra . Prefazione di Alberto Cesare Ambesi. Quintessenza Editrice, Gallarate 2009. ISBN 978-88-901794-2-6
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