Tadeusz Szeligowski
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Tadeusz Szeligowski was a Polish
composer
, educator, lawyer
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, chamber
and choral works.
As a music teacher he was very well established in Vilnius
, Lublin
, Poznań
and Warsaw
. He was also a respected music writer who frequently wrote for journals and magazines specialized in music such as the "Kurier Vilnius", "Weekly Vilnius", "Music" and the "Kurier Poznanski." 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.
. 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 1818-1923 in Kraków
, where he studied piano with Zdzisław Jachimecki and A. Peter, and composition with Bolesław Wallek-Walewski
. Szeligowski's further education included musicology
and law at the Jagiellonian University
in Kraków, where he received his doctorate
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 Paris
, where he met many composers of his time such as Sergei Prokofiev
, George Enesco and Arthur Honegger
. There he studied composition with Nadia Boulanger
and orchestration with Paul Dukas
. There he attended many concerts and intensely experienced the latest compositions by Darius Milhaud
, Francis Poulenc
, ballet
productions of many famous companies, as well as highly acclaimed performances by Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz
, Arthur Rubinstein
and Ignacy Jan Paderewski
.
, as lawyer and lecturer
at the Conservatory of Music. There he met Karol Szymanowski
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 the World War II
. 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 Philharmonic 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 Warsaw
, first for the faculty of the Fryderik Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, and later as director of the Polish Society of Composers.
A large group of his graduates on composition include: Zbigniew Bargielski
, Augustyn Bloch
, Joanna Bruzdowicz
, Wojciech Lukaszewski, Tadeusz Wojciech Maklakiewicz
, Boleslaw Ocias
, Witold Rudzinski
, Marek Sart
, Aleksander Szeligowski
and Antoni Szuniewicz.
and Oscar Nedbal usually visited the city and frequently performed works by Giuseppe Verdi
and Richard Wagner
. 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 is buried in the Poznań Skalka crypt of Merit.
Competition for the song The Prince and the girl }}|event= State prize of the second degree for The peacock and the girl, Arion, and the Lublin Wedding }}|event= State prize of the first degree for the opera stage Rise of the scholars }}|event= Prize Prime Minister of Poland for his music for children and youth }}|event= Music Award of the PCU, awarded every 17 January by the Polish Composers Union (ZKP — Zwiazek Kompozytorow Polskich) for lifetime achievement (posthumous) }}
Also, he received numerous prizes and condecorations, including:
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, educator, lawyer
Lawyer
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...
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, chamber
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
and choral works.
As a music teacher he was very well established in Vilnius
Vilnius
Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County...
, Lublin
Lublin
Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river...
, Poznań
Poznan
Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...
and Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
. He was also a respected music writer who frequently wrote for journals and magazines specialized in music such as the "Kurier Vilnius", "Weekly Vilnius", "Music" and the "Kurier Poznanski." 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.
Musical education
Tadeusz Szeligowski was born on 13 September 1896 in Lvov, UkraineUkraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
. 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
Vilém Kurz
Vilém Kurz was a Czech pianist and piano teacher, a professor at the State Conservatory in Lwów and Vienna, and Prague Conservatory...
, and then from 1818-1923 in Kraków
Kraków
Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...
, where he studied piano with Zdzisław Jachimecki and A. Peter, and composition with Bolesław Wallek-Walewski
Bolesław Wallek-Walewski
Bolesław Wallek-Walewski was a Polish composer and conductor, lecturer and Director of the Conservatory of Music in Kraków....
. Szeligowski's further education included musicology
Musicology
Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...
and law at the Jagiellonian University
Jagiellonian University
The Jagiellonian University was established in 1364 by Casimir III the Great in Kazimierz . It is the oldest university in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in the world....
in Kraków, where he received his doctorate
Doctorate
A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...
in 1922. There he found work as repetiteur
Répétiteur
Répétiteur , repetitore , or Korrepetitor / Repetitor , originally from the French verb répéter meaning "to repeat, to go over, to learn, to rehearse"....
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 Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, where he met many composers of his time such as Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
, George Enesco and Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
. There he studied composition with Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...
and orchestration with Paul Dukas
Paul Dukas
Paul Abraham Dukas was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man, of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, and he abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions...
. There he attended many concerts and intensely experienced the latest compositions by Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...
, Francis Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and a member of the French group Les six. He composed solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music...
, ballet
Ballet
Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
productions of many famous companies, as well as highly acclaimed performances by Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz
Vladimir Horowitz
Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz was a Russian-American classical virtuoso pianist and minor composer. His technique and use of tone color and the excitement of his playing were legendary. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.-Life and early...
, Arthur Rubinstein
Arthur Rubinstein
Arthur Rubinstein KBE was a Polish-American pianist. He received international acclaim for his performances of the music of a variety of composers...
and Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Ignacy Jan Paderewski GBE was a Polish pianist, composer, diplomat, politician, and the second Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland.-Biography:...
.
Musical career
In 1923 Szeligowski worked in Vilnius, LithuaniaLithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
, as lawyer and lecturer
Lecturer
Lecturer is an academic rank. In the United Kingdom, lecturer is a position at a university or similar institution, often held by academics in their early career stages, who lead research groups and supervise research students, as well as teach...
at the Conservatory of Music. There he met Karol Szymanowski
Karol Szymanowski
Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer and pianist.-Life:Szymanowski was born into a wealthy land-owning Polish gentry family in Tymoszówka, then in the Russian Empire, now in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. He studied music privately with his father before going to Gustav Neuhaus'...
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 the World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. 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 Philharmonic 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 Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
, first for the faculty of the Fryderik Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, and later as director of the Polish Society of Composers.
A large group of his graduates on composition include: Zbigniew Bargielski
Zbigniew Bargielski
Zbigniew Bargielski, born 21 January 1937 in Łomża, is a Polish composer and teacher. His works have been performed in many European countries, the United States, Australia and South America...
, Augustyn Bloch
Augustyn Bloch
Augustyn Bloch was a Polish composer and organist, student of Feliks Rączkowski and Tadeusz Szeligowski...
, Joanna Bruzdowicz
Joanna Bruzdowicz
Joanna Bruzdowicz is a Polish composer.-Life:Bruzdowicz studied at the Warsaw Music High School, at the State Higher School of Music ; she earned her M.A. in 1966...
, Wojciech Lukaszewski, Tadeusz Wojciech Maklakiewicz
Tadeusz Wojciech Maklakiewicz
Tadeusz Wojciech Maklakiewicz, born 20 October 1922, Mszczonów – 24 March 1996, Warsaw, was a Polish composer, music educator, activist and jurist.Maklakiewicz came from a family of musical traditions, being his brothers John and Francis composers...
, Boleslaw Ocias
Boleslaw Ocias
Bolesław Ocias, born 30 May 1929 in Częstochowa, is a Polish conductor, composer and pedagog. His most important works include, among others: Concertino for piano and orchestra and Missa solemnis for choir and orchestra....
, Witold Rudzinski
Witold Rudzinski
Witold Rudziński was a Polish composer, conductor, and author.-External links:**...
, Marek Sart
Marek Sart
Marek Sart, full name of Jan Szczerbiński was a Polish composer and music arranger. He studied Polish literature at the University of Łódź and composition at the Academy of Music in Warsaw.-References:...
, Aleksander Szeligowski
Aleksander Szeligowski
Aleksander Robert Szeligowski was a Polish composer, conductor, organist and pedagogue. He studied in Poznań and Warsaw, later working as assistant conductor for the Poznań Philharmonic...
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 Felix WeingartnerFelix Weingartner
Paul Felix von Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist.-Biography:...
and Oscar Nedbal usually visited the city and frequently performed works by Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
and Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
. 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 is buried in the Poznań Skalka crypt of Merit.
Awards
Szeligowski received numerous awards, among them:|event= Third prize at the Second Composers' Competition for Chopin's Piano Sonata d-moll }}|event= Second prize at the Polish RadioPolskie Radio
Polskie Radio Spółka Akcyjna is Poland's national publicly funded radio broadcasting organization.- History :Polskie Radio was founded on 18 August 1925 and began making regular broadcasts from Warsaw on 18 April 1926....
Competition for the song The Prince and the girl }}|event= State prize of the second degree for The peacock and the girl, Arion, and the Lublin Wedding }}|event= State prize of the first degree for the opera stage Rise of the scholars }}|event= Prize Prime Minister of Poland for his music for children and youth }}|event= Music Award of the PCU, awarded every 17 January by the Polish Composers Union (ZKP — Zwiazek Kompozytorow Polskich) for lifetime achievement (posthumous) }}
Also, he received numerous prizes and condecorations, including:
- The City of PoznańPoznanPoznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...
Music Prize|event= Gold Cross of Merit (ZŁOTYM KRZYZEM ZASŁUGI) }}|event= Medal Order of Polonia Restituta }}|event= A commemorative plaque designed by Józef Kopczyński and placed at House 22, Chełmoński street, in Poznań, where he lived from 1947.}}
Orchestral works
- The Peasant King - OvertureOvertureOverture in music is the term originally applied to the instrumental introduction to an opera...
to the comedy of Piotr BarykaPiotr BarykaPiotr Baryka , was a seventeenth-century Polish soldier and writer, most probably of burgher origin, of whom very little is known. He is listed as one of the authors present at the coronation of Władysław IV. Between 1629-1633, Baryka wrote a Carnival comedy about a peasant who was turned into king...
for orchestra (1926) - Kaziuki - St. Casimir's Day, suiteSuiteIn music, a suite is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed in a concert setting rather than as accompaniment; they may be extracts from an opera, ballet , or incidental music to a play or film , or they may be entirely original movements .In the...
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)
- EpitaphEpitaphAn epitaph is a short text honoring a deceased person, strictly speaking that is inscribed on their tombstone or plaque, but also used figuratively. Some are specified by the dead person beforehand, others chosen by those responsible for the burial...
on the death of Karol SzymanowskiKarol SzymanowskiKarol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer and pianist.-Life:Szymanowski was born into a wealthy land-owning Polish gentry family in Tymoszówka, then in the Russian Empire, now in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. He studied music privately with his father before going to Gustav Neuhaus'...
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)
- RicercarRicercarA ricercar is a type of late Renaissance and mostly early Baroque instrumental composition. The term means to search out, and many ricercars serve a preludial function to "search out" the key or mode of a following piece...
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)
- SarabandeSarabandeIn music, the sarabande is a dance in triple metre. The second and third beats of each measure are often tied, giving the dance a distinctive rhythm of quarter notes and eighth notes in alternation...
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)
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 contraltoContraltoContralto is the deepest female classical singing voice, with the lowest tessitura, falling between tenor and mezzo-soprano. It typically ranges between the F below middle C to the second G above middle C , although at the extremes some voices can reach the E below middle C or the second B above...
and tenorTenorThe tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
(1929) - Missa de Angelis for 3 female voices (1942)
- Ave MariaAve MariaAve Maria may refer to:*Ave Maria , the "Hail Mary", a traditional Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox prayer calling for the intercession of Mary, the mother of Jesus-Music:...
for three female voices (1943 ) - Regina Coeli LaetareRegina CoeliThe Regina Caeli or Regina Coeli , an ancient Latin Marian Hymn of the Christian Church, is one of the four seasonal Marian antiphons of the Blessed Virgin Mary, prescribed to be sung or recited in the Liturgy of the Hours at the conclusion of the last of the hours to be prayed in common that day,...
for 3 female voices (1943) - Populations meus for 3 female voices (1943)
- Veni Creator for 3 female voices (1943)
For choir a cappella
- Two BelarusianBelarusBelarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
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)
- Psalm Joyful in memoriam of Guillaume DufayGuillaume DufayGuillaume Dufay was a Franco-Flemish composer of the early Renaissance. As the central figure in the Burgundian School, he was the most famous and influential composer in Europe in the mid-15th century.-Early life:From the evidence of his will, he was probably born in Beersel, in the vicinity of...
for mixed choir (1938) - MassMassMass can be defined as a quantitive measure of the resistance an object has to change in its velocity.In physics, mass commonly refers to any of the following three properties of matter, which have been shown experimentally to be equivalent:...
for choir (1942) - Stabat MaterStabat MaterStabat Mater is a 13th-century Roman Catholic hymn to Mary. It has been variously attributed to the Franciscan Jacopone da Todi and to Innocent III...
for mixed choir (1943) - Pange linguaPange LinguaPange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium is a hymn written by St Thomas Aquinas for the Feast of Corpus Christi . It is also sung on Maundy Thursday, during the procession from the church to the place where the Blessed Sacrament is kept until Good Friday...
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, scherzoScherzoA scherzo is a piece of music, often a movement from a larger piece such as a symphony or a sonata. The scherzo's precise definition has varied over the years, but it often refers to a movement which replaces the minuet as the third movement in a four-movement work, such as a symphony, sonata, or...
for male choir (1946) - A wyjrzyjcież, youths, song for mixed choir (1948)
- Song of the 10th anniversary [version II] for mixed choir a cappella (1955)
- Psalm CXVI "Laudate Dominum" for mixed choir and boys' (1960)
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 - balladBalladA ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...
for voice and piano (1929) - Oaks - elegyElegyIn literature, an elegy is a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.-History:The Greek term elegeia originally referred to any verse written in elegiac couplets and covering a wide range of subject matter, including epitaphs for tombs...
for voice and piano (1929) - In alder - idyllIdyllAn idyll or idyl is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls....
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 Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz 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)
- ArionArionArion was a kitharode in ancient Greece, a Dionysiac poet credited with inventing the dithyramb: "As a literary composition for chorus dithyramb was the creation of Arion of Corinth," The islanders of Lesbos claimed him as their native son, but Arion found a patron in Periander, tyrant of Corinth...
for tenor and piano (1949) - DemonDemoncall - 1347 531 7769 for more infoIn Ancient Near Eastern religions as well as in the Abrahamic traditions, including ancient and medieval Christian demonology, a demon is considered an "unclean spirit" which may cause demonic possession, to be addressed with an act of exorcism...
for tenor and piano (1949) - DovesDovesDoves are an English alternative indie rock band, originating from Wilmslow, Cheshire. The band comprises brothers Jez Williams and Andy Williams , and Jimi Goodwin . The members started working seriously together after meeting at The Haçienda in Manchester. Doves' unofficial fourth member is...
for soprano and piano (1949) - The Ballad of Kostka NapierskiAleksander Kostka NapierskiAleksander Leon Kostka-Napierski , Polish captain during the Thirty Years' War in Swedish service, participant of battle in Germany and organizer of the Kostka-Napierski Uprising. According to the historian prof. Paweł Wieczorkiewicz, Napierski was in service to Khmelnytsky. Professor of History...
for voice and piano (1951) - With three Mauretankach, songSongIn music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...
for voice and piano (1953) - SoledadSoledadSoledad is a Spanish word meaning solitude or loneliness. It is also a female given name. It may also refer to:-Places:* Soledad, California* Soledad, Atlántico, Colombia* Soledad Atzompa, Veracruz, Mexico* Soledad Correctional Training Facility...
for voice and piano (1960)
For various vocal and instrumental ensembles
- Psalm XVI - oratorioOratorioAn oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and soloists. Like an opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias...
(1931) - Latin Mass for mixed choir and organOrgan (music)The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
(1932) - Cherry Blues for voiceVoiceVoice may refer to:* Human voice* Voice control or voice activation* Writer's voice* Voice acting* Voice vote* Voice message-In film:* Voice , a 2005 South Korean film* The Voice , a 2010 Turkish horror film directed by Ümit Ünal...
, celloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
and piano (1934) - Ave Maria for sopranoSopranoA soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
, female choir and organ (1943) - AriaAriaAn aria in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer. The term is now used almost exclusively to describe a self-contained piece for one voice usually with orchestral accompaniment...
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)
- TriptychTriptychA triptych , from tri-= "three" + ptysso= "to fold") is a work of art which is divided into three sections, or three carved panels which are hinged together and can be folded shut or displayed open. It is therefore a type of polyptych, the term for all multi-panel works...
for soprano and orchestra (1946) - CantataCantataA cantata is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir....
for sport "100 m" for solo voice, choir and orchestra (1948) - Wedding SuiteSuiteIn music, a suite is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed in a concert setting rather than as accompaniment; they may be extracts from an opera, ballet , or incidental music to a play or film , or they may be entirely original movements .In the...
for sopranoSopranoA soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
, tenorTenorThe tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
, 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, baritoneBaritoneBaritone is a type of male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek , meaning deep sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C Baritone (or...
, mixed choir and orchestra or piano (1948-1949) - RhapsodyRhapsodyRhapsody may refer to:* Rhapsody , an enthusiastic instrumental composition of indefinite form* A work of epic poetry, or part of one, that is suitable for recitation at one time...
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 [version] for choir
Stage works
- The peacock and the girl, balletBalletBallet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
in 3 acts (1948) - Bunt żaków (Student Rebellion), operaOperaOpera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
in 4 acts (1951) - Krakatuk, opera in 3 acts with a prologue (1954)
- MazepaIvan MazepaIvan Stepanovych Mazepa , Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate in Left-bank Ukraine, from 1687–1708. He was famous as a patron of the arts, and also played an important role in the Battle of Poltava where after learning of Peter I's intent to relieve him as acting Hetman of Ukraine and replace him...
, ballet in 3 acts (1958) - Theodore Gentleman, opera in 2 acts ( 1960)
See also
- Classical musicClassical musicClassical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
- Modern musicModern musicModern music may refer to:* 20th-century music* 20th-century classical music* 21st-century classical music* Contemporary classical music* Modernism * Modern rock* Popular music...
- Romantic composers
- Neoclassicism
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; Studies and Memories, edited by F. Wozniak, PomeraniaPomeraniaPomerania is a historical region on the south shore of the Baltic Sea. Divided between Germany and Poland, it stretches roughly from the Recknitz River near Stralsund in the West, via the Oder River delta near Szczecin, to the mouth of the Vistula River near Gdańsk in the East...
, Bydgoszcz 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, GdańskGdanskGdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...
1973