Some Polish Composers of To-Day
| Autor: | Andrzej Panufnik |
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| Rok vydání: | 1948 |
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| Zdroj: | Tempo. :25-28 |
| ISSN: | 1478-2286 0040-2982 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0040298200053596 |
| Popis: | It is ten years since KAROL SZYMANOWSKI died at fifty-four. He was the most prominent representative of the " radical progressive " group of early twentieth century composers, which we call " Young Poland." In their manysided and pioneering efforts they prepared the fertile soil on which Poland's present day's music thrives. Though Szymanowski's creative power, impressive in all its musical forms, does not possess the revolutionary force of Chopin's genius, it is, nevertheless, for us younger Poles, of far-reaching importance and a constant stimulus. Szymanowski was the first to break with the " moderate conservative " style of traditional music in our country. He aimed at technical perfection, logic and exactness in musical construction and, above all, he searched for a musical idiom which could be considered as the pursuit of Chopin's great revelation, not bare of the emotional, " human " qualities so often renounced by composers of the same period. Szymanowski, moreover, showed the younger generation of Polish musicians the way to Paris, where the majority of them studied with Ravel, Roussel, Dukas, or frequented the glorious " School " of Nadia Boulanger. To the most worthy pupils of this " school " belong the following ANTONI SZALOWSKI and MICHAL SPISAK, who began their studies in Warsaw under Kazimierz Sikorski (b. 1895), the most distinguished teacher of nearly all the younger composers. (Lately Director of the State Conservatoire in Lodz). |
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