New Christmas CD
A-B-C-D-E-F
Bacewicz, Grażyna
Baculewski, Krzysztof
Baird, Tadeusz
Bargielski, Zbigniew
Bruzdowicz, Joanna
Bujarski, Zbigniew
Dębski, Krzesimir
G-H-I-J-K
Górecki, Henryk Mikołaj
Grudzień, Jacek
Jarzębski, Adam
Karłowicz, Mieczysław
Kilar, Wojciech
Kisielewski, Stefan
Knittel, Krzysztof
Koszewski, Andrzej
Kotoński, Włodzimierz
Krauze, Zygmunt
Kulenty, Hanna
Kurpiński, Karol
L-M-N
Laks, Szymon
Lutosławski, Witold
Maciejewski, Roman
Maklakiewicz, Jan
Malawski, Artur
Matuszczak, Bernardetta
Meyer, Krzysztof
Moniuszko, Stanisław
Moszumańska-Nazar, Krystyna
O-P-R
Ogiński, Michał Kleofas
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan
Panufnik, Andrzej
Penderecki, Krzysztof
Ptaszyńska, Marta
Rudziński, Witold
Rudziński, Zbigniew
Ryterband, Roman
Select Masters of Polish Classical Music
A Sampling of Fredryk Chopin's
Greatest Masterpieces
Dr. and Mrs. Peter Gorecki were in attendance at the 2010 Polish Singers Alliance Festival Concert held in Buffalo, NY. Dr. Gorecki is highly regarded in the Polish community as an accomplished organist and composer, and has served as director of various Polish-American choirs over the years. The Goreckis are celebrating 65 years of marriage this year.
A few select videoclips of the 2010 Polish Singers Alliance festival concert
St. Stanislaus Church in Buffalo, NY
May 30, 2010
Fredryk Chopin monument in Żelazowa Wola
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Schaeffer, Bogusław
Serocki, Kazimier
Sikora, Elżbieta
Sikorski, Kazimierz
Sikorski, Tomasz
Siwinski, Jarosław
Skrowaczewski, Stanisław
Słowiński, Władysław
Spisak, Michał
Stachowski, Marek
Stojowski, Zygmunt
Szalonek, Witold
Szeluto, Apolinary
Szymanowska, Maria
Szymanowski, Karol
Szymański, Paweł
T-U-V
Tansman, Aleksander
Twardowski, Romuald Vars, Henryk
W-X-Y-Z
Wielecki, Tadeusz
Wieniawski, Henryk
Zakrzewska, Barbara
Zawadzka, Anna
Zielińska, Lidia
Zieleński, Mikołaj
Żeleński, Władysław
At the end of the 18th century, Polish classical music evolved into national forms like the polonaise. In the 19th century the most popular composers were: Józef Elsner and his pupils Fryderyk Chopin and Ignacy Dobrzyński. Important opera composers were Karol Kurpiński and Stanisław Moniuszko. Famous soloists and composers were Henryk Wieniawski and Juliusz Zarębski. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries the most promiment composers were Władysław Zeleński and Mieczysław Karłowicz. Karol Szymanowski gained prominence prior to World War II. Józef Koffler was the first Polish twelve-tone composer (dodecaphonist).
Between the wars, a group of composers formed the Association of Young Polish Musicians; these included Grażyna Bacewicz, Zygmunt Mycielski, Michał Spisak and Tadeusz Szeligowski.
Following World War II, some composers, such as Roman Palester and Andrzej Panufnik, fled the country and remained in the exile. In the early 1960s, however, a number of composers known as the Polish Composers' School arose, characterized by the use of sonorism and dodecaphonism. The style emerged out of the political crisis in 1956, following Stalin's death; that same year saw the Warsaw Autumn music festival inaugurated, from whence came additional popularity for the Polish Composers' School. Composers included Tadeusz Baird, Boguslaw Schaeffer, Włodzimierz Kotoński, Witold Szalonek, Krzysztof Penderecki, Witold Lutosławski, Wojciech Kilar, Kazimierz Serocki and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki. More modern composers include Krzysztof Meyer, Paweł Szymański, Krzesimir Dębski, Hanna Kulenty, Eugeniusz Knapik and Paweł Mykietyn.
For a more complete and scholarly study of the following Polish musicians, be sure to visit the University of Southern California's Polish Music Center's web site.
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