Piano Accompaniment;
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HL.254192
The
Works of Mieczyslaw
Karlowicz - Volume I.
Composed by Mieczyslaw
Karlowicz. PWM.
Classical, German
Edition, Polish Edition.
Hardcover. 82 pages.
Polskie Wydawnictwo
Muzyczne #11626010.
Published by Polskie
Wydawnictwo Muzyczne
(HL.254192).
UPC:
196288020622. 9.5x12.25
inches.
The songs
of Mieczyslaw Karlowicz
appeared in the history
of Polish song as a
rather unusual
phenomenon. In the output
of this outstanding
symphonist - as youthful
works - they formed an
anacrusis, albeit a
significant one, to his
fully mature and
masterful output. Nearly
all of them were written
over the course of a
single year. Composed on
the margins of his
academic course in
composition, they appear
to represent a document
of deeply personal
feelings and thoughts,
seismographically
recording his current
states of mind. Of the
twenty-nine songs known
to have existed,
twenty-two have come down
to us; the seven
unpublished works, some
merely sketched, were
lost during the Second
World War. Overlooking a
couple of them, of a
separate character, they
form a remarkably
coherent body of work. On
closer inspection, it
turns out that this
cohesion of a distinctive
character marks the whole
of Karlowicz's oeuvre.
Thesymphonic poems of the
composer of Eternal songs
are set within the same
space of ideas and
meanings as the songs;
they are marked by
analogous categories of
expression. And it is a
space which the composers
main biographer, Adolf
Chybinski, described as
teeming with tragedy and
boundless woe,
resignation and a longing
for another world'. In
terms of the style of
utterance, Mieczyslaw
Karlowiczs songs -
although deeply rooted in
late Romantic style -
have often been described
as output standing on the
threshold of a modernist
phase. Zdzislaw
Jachimecki wrote in
1930:A warm lyrical note
in many of them, a
genuine inspiration
manifested in the very
natural way inwhich the
melodies are drawn,
unsophisticated forms of
accompaniment, which are
nevertheless suited to
the mood of the poetry in
question and organically
linked to the song, and
the accomplished
declamation and
construction of these
works have earned
Karlowicz's songs
deserved popularity in
Polish singing
circles.