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Beschreibung
Gräyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) was a composer with an individual, expressive style. She was also an excellent violinist, a very fine pianist, and a talented author. She studied composition at the Conservatory in Warsaw with Kazimierz Sikorski, violin with Józef Jarz¿bski, and piano with Józef Turczy¿nski. Graduating in 1932, she travelled to Paris to study composition with Nadia Boulanger, later returning there to work with Carl Flesch. Her compositional output covered many genres, including ballets, songs, and choral works, while her instrumental writing ranged from symphonies and concertos to chamber works and pieces for solo piano. In 1936 she became principal violinist in the Polish Radio Orchestra. She then toured Europe as a soloist in the two years leading to World War II, later resuming her career as a concert violinist and pianist after the war. For many years, Gräyna Bacewicz held the post of Vice-President of the Union of Polish Composers. She also served as a judge in many prestigious international music competitions. Strong and sensitive, and exceptionally family oriented, Gräyna Bacewicz was also blessed with unusual charm, phenomenal energy, and huge creative power.
Gräyna Bacewicz became world famous and won numerous prizes for her compositions, which were regularly performed by the best musicians, and picked up for publication. She received enthusiastic reviews from music critics, among them Stefan Kisielewski, who noted the 'passionate ferocity' of her playing and described her concerto for string orchestra as 'a rare piece of healthy and tasty music'.
This unique biographical story, based on letters and other family documents, has been brought to us first hand by the composer's grand-daughter, the writer Joanna Send¿ak.
Gräyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) was a composer with an individual, expressive style. She was also an excellent violinist, a very fine pianist, and a talented author. She studied composition at the Conservatory in Warsaw with Kazimierz Sikorski, violin with Józef Jarz¿bski, and piano with Józef Turczy¿nski. Graduating in 1932, she travelled to Paris to study composition with Nadia Boulanger, later returning there to work with Carl Flesch. Her compositional output covered many genres, including ballets, songs, and choral works, while her instrumental writing ranged from symphonies and concertos to chamber works and pieces for solo piano. In 1936 she became principal violinist in the Polish Radio Orchestra. She then toured Europe as a soloist in the two years leading to World War II, later resuming her career as a concert violinist and pianist after the war. For many years, Gräyna Bacewicz held the post of Vice-President of the Union of Polish Composers. She also served as a judge in many prestigious international music competitions. Strong and sensitive, and exceptionally family oriented, Gräyna Bacewicz was also blessed with unusual charm, phenomenal energy, and huge creative power.
Gräyna Bacewicz became world famous and won numerous prizes for her compositions, which were regularly performed by the best musicians, and picked up for publication. She received enthusiastic reviews from music critics, among them Stefan Kisielewski, who noted the 'passionate ferocity' of her playing and described her concerto for string orchestra as 'a rare piece of healthy and tasty music'.
This unique biographical story, based on letters and other family documents, has been brought to us first hand by the composer's grand-daughter, the writer Joanna Send¿ak.
Über den Autor
Joanna Sendlak is the grand-daughter of Grażyna Bacewicz. She was born and studied in Warsaw - first painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, then philosophy at the University. She has exhibited paintings in Warsaw galleries, published stories in literary magazines and is the author of a number of novels, most recently The Dreamer of 76th Street (Nowy Świat, 2016), With Fire: Grażyna Bacewicz in Love on the Eve of War (Skarpa Warszawska, 2018) and Symphony of Stars (Skarpa Warszawska, 2019). Two volumes of her short stories were published by Fundacja Światlo Literatury in 2019: Atotsi and Labirynt.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781800505049
ISBN-10: 1800505043
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Sendlak, Joanna
Hersteller: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 240 x 161 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Joanna Sendlak
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.09.2024
Gewicht: 0,484 kg
Artikel-ID: 129360223

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