Who composed the 'Warsaw Concerto'?
"Compagnons de la chanson, Steve Lawrence, Gino Latilla, Bob Azzam, Franck Pourcel, Pino Calvi, Jimmy Fontana, Fausto Papetti, Franco Simone, Luciano Tajoli, Christian, Paola Musiani. Il nostro concerto ""Il nostro concerto"" is a 1960 Italian song composed by Umberto Bindi (music) and Giorgio Calabrese (lyrics). The song premiered at the Italian Music Festival in New York, in which was performed by Miranda Martino and placed third. It eventually was Bindi's major hit, whose version topped the Italian hit parade for several months. The symphonic structure of the song was inspired by Richard Addinsell's ""Warsaw Concerto"". ""Il nostro concerto"" was covered"
"November 1977. In 1999 it was revealed that the royalties for ""Warsaw Concerto"" had belonged to the parents of author Jilly Cooper, whose brother advanced the theory that Addinsell – for many years their neighbour – gave it to them as thanks for being discreet about his relationship with Stiebel. Richard Addinsell Richard Stewart Addinsell (13 January 190414 November 1977) was an English composer, best known for film music, primarily his ""Warsaw Concerto"", composed for the 1941 film ""Dangerous Moonlight"" (also known under the later title ""Suicide Squadron""). Richard Addinsell was born in Woburn Square, London, to William Arthur Addinsell,"
"Richard Addinsell Richard Stewart Addinsell (13 January 190414 November 1977) was an English composer, best known for film music, primarily his ""Warsaw Concerto"", composed for the 1941 film ""Dangerous Moonlight"" (also known under the later title ""Suicide Squadron""). Richard Addinsell was born in Woburn Square, London, to William Arthur Addinsell, who was a chartered accountant, and his wife, Annie Beatrice Richards. The younger of two brothers, Addinsell was educated at home before attending Hertford College, Oxford, to study Law but went down after just 18 months. He then became interested in music. In 1925, he enrolled at the Royal College"
"Chopin & Liszt in Warsaw Chopin and Liszt in Warsaw is a classical music album recorded by Austrian pianist Ingolf Wunder featuring compositions of Frederic Chopin and Franz Liszt. The album was recorded with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Jacek Kaspszyk, and is noteworthy in that it features Wunder's own orchestration of Chopin's ""Allegro de concert"" for solo piano and orchestra, and Alfred Cortot's orchestration of the Piano Concerto No. 2 with revisions by Wunder. The album also features Liszt's ""Hexaméron"", a piece that Liszt himself played at his debut performance in Warsaw. Released on 28 August 2015 at Deutsche"
"Concerto for Orchestra (Lutosławski) Polish composer Witold Lutosławski's Concerto for Orchestra was written in the years 1950–54, on the initiative of the artistic director of the Warsaw Philharmonic, Witold Rowicki, to whom it is dedicated. It is written in three movements, lasts about 30 minutes, and constitutes the last stage and a crowning achievement of the folkloristic style in Lutosławski's work. That style, inspired by the music of the Kurpie region, went back in him to the pre-1939 years. Having written a series of small folkoristic pieces for various instruments and their combinations (piano, clarinet with piano, chamber ensemble, orchestra,"
"in ""Witold Lutosławski – Guide to Warsaw"" (2013) by the National Institute of Fryderyk Chopin. Witold Lutosławski Witold Roman Lutosławski (; 25 January 1913 – 7 February 1994) was a Polish composer and orchestral conductor. He was one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and one of the preeminent Polish musicians during his last three decades. He earned many international awards and prizes. His compositions (of which he was a notable conductor) include four symphonies, a Concerto for Orchestra, a string quartet, instrumental works, concertos, and orchestral song cycles. During his youth, Lutosławski studied piano and composition"
"Stanisław Wisłocki Stanisław Wisłocki (July 7, 1921May 31, 1998) was a Polish conductor of classical music who performed and recorded with many internationally renowned orchestras, ensembles and virtuoso musicians and is highly regarded for his interpretations of Beethoven, Mozart, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Schumann and Tchaikovsky. Wisłocki was born in Rzeszów, Poland. He began his studies in Lwów [Lviv] under Seweryn Barbag, and continued during the war at the Academy of Music in Timișoara and Bucharest under George Simonis (composition and conducting), Emil Mikhail (piano), and George Enescu. It was during this time that he began his artistic career, performing as a"
"Krzysztof Penderecki Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (; born 23 November 1933) is a Polish composer and conductor. ""The Guardian"" has called him Poland's greatest living composer. Among his best known works are ""Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima"", ""Symphony No. 3"", his ""St. Luke Passion"", ""Polish Requiem"", ""Anaklasis"" and ""Utrenja"". Penderecki composed four operas, eight symphonies and other orchestral pieces, a variety of instrumental concertos, choral settings of mainly religious texts, as well as chamber and instrumental works. Born in Dębica to a lawyer, Penderecki studied music at Jagiellonian University and the Academy of Music in Kraków. After graduating from the"
"Polonia (Wagner) Polonia (WWV 39) is a concert overture written by Richard Wagner. Wagner completed ""Polonia"" in 1836, although it has been suggested that it may have been drafted as early as 1832. Wagner states that ""Polonia"" resulted from a ""dreamlike evening"" in Leipzig when he heard uninterrupted Polish songs at a celebration of May 3rd Constitution Day in 1832. He composed the work later in Berlin in May-July 1836, and gave its first performance in Königsberg the following winter. The work, which is in sonata form, contains references to Polish folksong. Wagner apparently took the manuscript of the score"
"or Wagner, who were then dominating the scene. Some of the information on this page appears on the website of Edition Silvertrust but permission has been granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. Zygmunt Noskowski Zygmunt Noskowski (2 May 1846 – 23 July 1909) was a Polish composer, conductor and teacher. Noskowski was born in Warsaw and was originally trained at the Warsaw Conservatory studying violin and composition with Stanisław Moniuszko, graduated with distinction in 1867. A scholarship enabled him to travel to Berlin where between 1872 and 1875, he"
"According to Halina Goldberg in her book ""Music in Chopin's Warsaw"" (93), ""The piece also speaks to the audiences through the evocation of familiar national tunes associated with the three heroes: in the section marked 'Souvenir de leur dévoument pour la patrie,' we hear successively Prince Poniatowski's Favorite March, the Trio of Kościuszko's Polonaise ""And When You Depart, Fare Well"" (A kiedy odjeżdżasz byawaj że zdrów), and the Dąbrowski Mazurka, (aka the Polish National Anthem)."" Wilhelm Würfel Wilhelm Würfel, aka Wenzel Würfel (, ; May 6, 1790 - March 23, 1832) was a Czech composer, pianist and conductor. He was"
"Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" and ""Salome""; his Lieder, especially his ""Four Last Songs""; his tone poems, including ""Don Juan"", ""Death and Transfiguration"", ""Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"", ""Also sprach Zarathustra"", ""Ein Heldenleben"", ""Symphonia Domestica"", and ""An Alpine Symphony""; and other instrumental works such as ""Metamorphosen"" and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying quasi-celebrity status"
"documentary by András Schiff and Mischa Scorer, and in a 2010 documentary realised by Angelo Bozzolini and Roberto Prosseda for Italian television. Notes Citations Bibliography Music scores Frédéric Chopin Frédéric François Chopin (; ; ; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose ""poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation."" Chopin was born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin in the Duchy of Warsaw and grew up"
"Selective bibliography Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" and ""Salome""; his Lieder, especially his ""Four Last Songs""; his tone poems, including ""Don Juan"", ""Death and Transfiguration"", ""Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"", ""Also sprach Zarathustra"", ""Ein Heldenleben"", ""Symphonia Domestica"", and ""An Alpine Symphony""; and other instrumental works such as ""Metamorphosen"" and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying"
"the early 1960s, he attempted to distance himself from the Concerto for Orchestra, though he conducted it in Copenhagen in August 1967 upon receiving a $10,000 prize from a Danish foundation. Concerto for Orchestra (Lutosławski) Polish composer Witold Lutosławski's Concerto for Orchestra was written in the years 1950–54, on the initiative of the artistic director of the Warsaw Philharmonic, Witold Rowicki, to whom it is dedicated. It is written in three movements, lasts about 30 minutes, and constitutes the last stage and a crowning achievement of the folkloristic style in Lutosławski's work. That style, inspired by the music of the"
"A Survivor from Warsaw A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46, is a cantata by the Los Angeles-based Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, written in tribute to Holocaust victims. The main narration is unsung; “never should there be a pitch” to its solo vocal line, wrote the composer. Scored for narrator, men's chorus and orchestra, it resulted from a suggested collaboration between Russian émigrée dancer Corinne Chochem and Schoenberg, but the dancer’s initiative gave way to a project independently developed by the composer after he received a commission from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation for an orchestral work. Concept, text, and musical sketches"
"film ""Warsaw Premiere"" directed by Jan Rybkowski. Moniuszko was played by Jan Koecher. Since the 1990s Stanisław Moniuszko is being recognized in Belarus as an important figure of Belarusian culture. Moniuszko's operas are regularly performed at the Belarusian National Opera. There is a Museum of Stanisław Moniuszko. Due to the current obscurity of Moniuszko outside Poland, this list more or less represents a complete discography. Stanisław Moniuszko Stanisław Moniuszko (; May 5, 1819, Ubiel, Minsk Governorate – June 4, 1872, Warsaw, Congress Poland) was a Polish composer, conductor and teacher. He wrote many popular art songs and operas, and his"
"Violin Concerto No. 1 (Wieniawski) Violin Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 14, by Polish violin virtuoso Henryk Wieniawski was first performed on October 27, 1853 in Leipzig. The score is dedicated to King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia. The work is in three movements: A typical performance takes around 28 - 30 minutes. The first movement has two contrasting themes, the first in dotted rhythm and initially hesitant and the second in B major (begun by the cellos), wide-ranging and expressive. These are, in turn, dissected and ornamented by the soloist with formidable virtuosity, using multiple-stopping and"
"father of the composer, Tomasz Sikorski. Sikorski composed six symphonies, a symphonic allegro, two overtures (1945, 1954), some instrumental concertos, of which the clarinet concerto (1947) is the most important, a string sextet, three string quartets, choral and film music, including the music for the film ""Warsaw Premiere"" (Polish: ""Warszawska premiera""), for which he won a State Award. Kazimierz Sikorski Kazimierz Sikorski (June 28, 1895 – July 23, 1986) was a Polish composer. His arrangement of the ""Mazurek Dąbrowskiego"" is currently used as the Polish national anthem. Sikorski was born in Zurich, but studied in Warsaw, first music at the"
"Concerto for Orchestra (Skrowaczewski) The Concerto for Orchestra is an orchestral composition by the Polish-American composer Stanisław Skrowaczewski. Though originally composed in 1983 and premiered in the mid-1980s, Skrowaczewski later reworked the composition. It was first performed in its revised form on November 19, 1998 in Philadelphia by the orchestra of the Curtis Institute of Music. The revised piece was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Music. The Concerto for Orchestra has a duration of roughly 30 minutes is composed in two movements: Martin Cotton of ""BBC Music Magazine"" lauded the composition, writing, ""The Concerto for Orchestra is"
"Warsaw Pact countries, as well as to countries with strong relations with the USSR. The choir appears to function most successfully with a minimum of 80 singers. Most of the films and photographs of the Ensemble in its heyday, including the 1948 Berlin Peace Concert, and during the directorship of Boris Alexandrov, show a choir of at least 80 singers. This size allows the characteristic massed-voices effect of the Ensemble, plus the opportunity for the composer or arranger to score for several parts, in both bass and tenor sections. For example, in ""Song of the Dnieper"", a basso profondo line"
"Warszawa (song) ""Warszawa"" is a mostly instrumental song by David Bowie, co-written with Brian Eno and originally released in 1977 on the album ""Low"". The band Joy Division was initially called Warsaw as a reference to this song. The arrangement is meant to evoke the desolation of Warsaw at the time of Bowie's visit in 1973. The mysterious lyrics and the piece of melody in the middle part of the song are based upon a recording of ""Helokanie"" by Polish folk choir Śląsk, although the lyrics are phonetical, not words in Polish. Bowie had purchased a recording of Śląsk performing"
"Piano Concerto (Lutosławski) The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra is a composition for solo piano and orchestra by the Polish composer Witold Lutosławski. The music was commissioned by the Salzburg Festival. It was first performed at the festival on August 19, 1988 by the pianist Krystian Zimerman and the Austrian Radio Orchestra under the direction of the composer. Lutosławski dedicated the piece to Zimerman. The concerto has a duration of roughly 27 minutes and is cast in four movements played without pause. The first movement comprises four sections, the first and third of which Lutosławski described as possessing ""nonchalant"" motifs."
"the world-renowned Austrian-American composer Arnold Schoenberg to commission the premiere of his work „A Survivor from Warsaw“ to the ACS. The work was written in remembrance of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Poland during World War II, and is one of the most important classical works to commemorate the Shoah, the genocide of more than six million European Jews by Nazi Germany. Frederick, who continued teaching at the University of New Mexico and later founded the Albuquerque Youth Symphony, was replaced in 1950 by Hans Lange. The German-American conductor Lange was born in Constantinople, Turkey, where his father Paul Lange"
"Cello Concerto (Lutosławski) The Concerto for Cello and Orchestra is a cello concerto by the Polish composer Witold Lutosławski. The work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society with support from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. It received its world premiere at the Royal Festival Hall on October 14, 1970 by the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich (to whom the piece is dedicated) and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Edward Downes. The concerto has a duration of roughly 24 minutes and is composed in four movements played without pause: The work is scored for solo cello and a large orchestra"
"Bassoon Concerto (Panufnik) The Bassoon Concerto, composed by Andrzej Panufnik in 1985, is a concerto for bassoon and orchestra dedicated to Jerzy Popiełuszko, an anti-communist Polish priest who was murdered by three secret police agents in 1984. The work was commissioned by the American bassoonist Robert Thompson. The concerto was premiered in Milwaukee in 1986, with Thompson as the soloist. Panufnik and Thompson recorded the concerto in 1987, with Panufnik conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra. In the same year, they performed the work in Jerzy Popiełuszko's church. The concerto is scored for a small orchestra – only strings, a flute"
"sitting to some degree outside the mainstream of his otherwise clear compositional phases, emanating from his most avant-garde period but somehow not fully belonging to it."" Cello Concerto (Lutosławski) The Concerto for Cello and Orchestra is a cello concerto by the Polish composer Witold Lutosławski. The work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society with support from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. It received its world premiere at the Royal Festival Hall on October 14, 1970 by the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich (to whom the piece is dedicated) and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Edward Downes. The concerto has"
"Prix du Disque, Académie Charles Cros in Paris (for ""Piano Concerto"" by Sergey Rachmaninoff with Sviatoslav Richter and the National Philharmonic Orchestra ), the Minister of Culture and Art Prize of the Polish Composers Union and numerous Polish and foreign decorations. Stanisław Wisłocki Stanisław Wisłocki (July 7, 1921May 31, 1998) was a Polish conductor of classical music who performed and recorded with many internationally renowned orchestras, ensembles and virtuoso musicians and is highly regarded for his interpretations of Beethoven, Mozart, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Schumann and Tchaikovsky. Wisłocki was born in Rzeszów, Poland. He began his studies in Lwów [Lviv] under Seweryn"
"Key Solo instrument Date of composition Date of premiere Opus Key Date of composition Date of premiere Józef Elsner Józef Antoni Franciszek Elsner (sometimes ""Józef Ksawery Elsner""; baptismal name, ""Joseph Anton Franz Elsner""; 1 June 176918 April 1854) was a composer, music teacher, and music theoretician, active mainly in Warsaw. He was one of the first composers in Poland to weave elements of folk music into his works. Elsner composed many symphonic, chamber, solo, and vocal-instrumental works, and works for the stage, including over 100 religious works (masses, offertorios, oratorios, cantatas), eight symphonies, three concertos, three ballets, and thirty-eight operas."
"Peter Wilhousky Peter J. Wilhousky () (13 July 1902 – 4 January 1978) was an American composer, educator, and choral conductor of Ukrainian ethnic extraction. During his childhood he was part of New York's Rusyn Cathedral Boys Choir and gave a performance at the White House to President Woodrow Wilson. He was featured on several broadcasts of classical music with Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra, including the historic 1947 broadcast of Verdi's opera ""Otello"". In 1936, he wrote the popular Christmas carol ""Carol of the Bells""; a song with English lyrics to the popular composition by Ukrainian composer"
"Witold Lutosławski Witold Roman Lutosławski (; 25 January 1913 – 7 February 1994) was a Polish composer and orchestral conductor. He was one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and one of the preeminent Polish musicians during his last three decades. He earned many international awards and prizes. His compositions (of which he was a notable conductor) include four symphonies, a Concerto for Orchestra, a string quartet, instrumental works, concertos, and orchestral song cycles. During his youth, Lutosławski studied piano and composition in Warsaw. His early works were influenced by Polish folk music. His style demonstrates a"
"2 zloty. The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice as well as the Kraków Philharmonic have been both named in remembrance of the composer. Karol Szymanowski Karol Maciej Szymanowski (; 3 October 188229 March 1937) was a Polish composer and pianist, the most celebrated Polish composer of the early 20th century. He is considered a member of the late 19th-/early 20th-century modernist movement Young Poland and widely viewed as one of the greatest Polish composers. The early works show the influence of the late Romantic German school as well as the early works of Alexander Scriabin, as exemplified by"
"written by Edward Elgar (a violin concerto and a cello concerto), Sergei Rachmaninoff and Nikolai Medtner (four and three piano concertos, respectively), Jean Sibelius (a violin concerto), Frederick Delius (a violin concerto, a cello concerto, a piano concerto and a double concerto for violin and cello), Karol Szymanowski (two violin concertos and a ""Symphonie Concertante"" for piano), and Richard Strauss (two horn concertos, a violin concerto, ""Don Quixote""—a tone poem that features the cello as a soloist—and among later works, an oboe concerto). However, in the first decades of the 20th century, several composers such as Debussy, Schoenberg, Berg, Hindemith,"