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Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer, pianist and writer. He was a member of the modernist Young Poland movement that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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culture · Polish composer (1882–1937) · composer · music educator · university teacher · pianist · author · also Karol Szymanowski, Karol Maciej Szymanowski, Karol Szymanovski, Szymanowski
Born 3 October 1882 · Died 29 March 1937 · Q295400
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Bay Area Reporter: Karol Szymanowski at the keyboard – A new recording celebrates the piano works of the gay composer
Released album “Moscow”.
Released album “Myth: Rosanne Philippens Plays Szymanowski”.
King Roger was staged in London's Royal Opera House, produced by Kasper Holten
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Released album “Polska”.
Released album “The Complete Piano Works of Szymanowski”.
Released album “Etude”.
Released album “Symphony no. 1 / Symphony no. 3 "The Song of the Night" / Love Songs of Hafiz”.
Released album “Kletzki: Violin Concerto / Szymanowski: Violin Concerto no. 2 / Lutosławski: Partita”.
Released album “Masques / Métopes / Études, op. 4 / Études, op. 33”.
Released album “Tradition chez les modernes”.
Released album “Stabat Mater / Harnasie”.
Released album “Songs, opp. 46 & 58”.
Released album “Stabat Mater / Litania / Demeter”.
Released album “Orchestral Works”.
Released album “Piano Works, Vol. 2”.
Released album “Symphony no. 2 / Symphony no. 4 "Symphonie concertante" / Concert Overture”.
NPR: Karol Szymanowski
Released album “Debussy / Szymanowski”.
Released album “Piano Works, Vol. 1”.
Gergiev led the London Symphony Orchestra's performance of all four of Szymanowski's symphonies at the Edinburgh International Festival
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Released album “Hindemith / Schoenberg / Stravinsky / Szymanowski”.
Released album “Frédéric Vaysse-Knitter plays Szymanowski”.
Released album “Chopin: Cello Sonata / Szymanowski, Laks: Sonatas”.
Released album “Paris”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Violin and Piano”.
Released album “Symphonies nos. 1 and 4 / Concert Overture / Study in B-flat minor”.
Released album “Harnasie (Ballet-Pantomime) / Mandragora / Prince Potemkin, Incidental Music to Act V”.
Released album “Lutoslawski: Complete Music for Violin and Piano / Szymanowski: Myths / Janáček: Violin Sonata”.
Released album “Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 53 / Romance in F minor, op. 11 / Szymanowski: Violin Concerto no. 1, op. 35”.
Released album “Szymanowski: String Quartets nos 1 & 2 / Różycki: String Quartet”.
Released album “Stabat Mater / Veni Creator / Litany to the Virgin Mary”.
Released album “Violin Concertos / Stabat Mater / Symphony no. 3 / Symphonie concertante”.
Released album “Symphony no. 2 / Symphony no. 3 "Song of the Night"”.
King Roger was performed at Edinburgh International Festival under the baton of Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky opera company
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Released album “Violin Concertos nos. 1 & 2”.
Released album “Wieniawski / Szymanowski: Violin Concertos / Lutoslawski: Chain 2”.
Released album “String Quartets”.
Released album “Szymanowski: Symphony no. 2 / Symphony no. 3 "Chant de la nuit" / Enesco: Rhapsodie roumaine no. 1”.
Released album “Piano Music, Volume 2”.
Released album “Violin Concertos nos. 1 and 2 / Nocturne and Tarantella”.
Released album “Violin Sonata / Mythes / Notturno and Tarantella”.
Released album “Violin Concertos”.
Released album “Portraits”.
Released album “Franck: Violin Sonata / Szymanowski: Mythes”.
Released album “Songs of a Fairy-Tale Princess / Harnasie / Love Songs of Hafiz”.
Released album “Piano Works, Vol. 4”.
Released album “Piano Recital”.
Released album “Piano Sonata No. 3 / Métopes / Masques”.
Released album “Nicola Benedetti: Szymanowski / Chausson / Saint-Saëns”.
Released album “Symphony No. 4 / Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2”.
Released album “Paradisi Gloria: Stabat Mater”.
Released album “Complete Songs for Voice and Piano”.
Released album “Król Roger”.
Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti won the BBC Young Musician of the Year with a performance of Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No
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Released album “The Complete Mazurkas”.
Released album “Janáček: Sonate pour violon et piano / Lutosławski: Partita / Szymanowski: Mythes”.
Released album “String Quartets Arranged for String Orchestra”.
Released album “Stabat Mater / Six Kurpian Songs / Symphony no. 3 "The Song of the Night"”.
Released album “Music of Szymanowski”.
Released album “Szymanowski: String Quartets / Stravinsky: Concertino”.
Released album “Piano Works, Vol. 3”.
Released album “Symphony no. 4 "Symphonie Concertante" / Harnasie”.
Released album “Works for Violin & Piano”.
Released album “Król Roger / Symphony no. 4 (Sinfonia concertante)”.
Released album “Beethoven: Sonata Op. 81a (Les Adieux) / Franck: Prelude, Chorale & Fugue / Szymanowski: Mazurkas / Villa-Lobos, Milhaud, Gershwin, Liszt”.
Released album “King Roger”.
Released album “Symphony no. 3 "Song of the Night" / Symphony no. 4 "Symphonie Concertante" / Concert Overture”.
Released album “Symphonies nos. 1 & 2”.
Released album “Harnasie (Ballet Pantomime) / Mandragora (Pantomime) / Etude for Orchestra”.
Released album “Stabat mater / Veni Creator / Litany to the Virgin Mary / Demeter / Penthesilea”.
Released album “Œuvres pour piano”.
Released album “Klavierkonzerte”.
Released album “Violin Concertos nos. 1 & 2 / 3 Paganini caprices / Romance”.
Released album “Symphony No. 2 / Symphony No. 4 (Symphonie Concertante)”.
Released album “Szymanowski: Symphonies 2 & 3, Violin Concerto 2 / Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra”.
Released album “Mazurken”.
Released album “Violin Concertos nos. 1 & 2 / Concert Overture”.
Released album “Szymanowski: Symphony no. 3 / Symphony no. 4 / Panufnik: Sinfonia Votiva”.
Released album “Stabat Mater / Litany to the Virgin Mary / Symphony no. 3 "Song of the Night"”.
Released album “Piano Music, Volume 1”.
Charles Dutoit recorded both of Szymanowski's violin concertos with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra
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Released album “Werke für violine und klavier”.
Released album “Symphony no. 2 / Symphony no. 3 "Song of the Night" / Concert Overture”.
Released album “Polska! A Celebration of Polish Music”.
Released album “Stabat Mater”.
Released album “String Quartets nos. 1 & 2 / Langsamer Satz”.
Released album “Paderewski: Sonata, op. 13 / Szymanowski: Sonata, op. 9 / Lutosławski: Partita (1984)”.
Released album “Etudes / Fantasy / Métopes / Masques”.
Released album “Piano Music of Alfredo Casella and Karol Szymanowski”.
Released album “Sonata, op. 9 / Three Myths, op. 30 / Nocturne & Tarantella, op. 28”.
Released album “Violin Concertos nos. 1 and 2 / Nocturne / Tarantelle”.
Released album “Songs with Orchestra”.
Released album “K. Szymanowski, Volume One: Concert Overture in E major, op. 12 / Symphony no. 2 / Symphony no. 4 "Concertante"”.
Released album “Sheherazade”.
Released album “K. Szymanowski, Volume Three: Violin Concertos nos. 1 & 2 / Sonata in D minor for Violin & Piano, op. 9 / Roxana's Song from "King Roger"”.
Released album “Œuvres pour violon et piano”.
Released album “K. Szymanowski, Volume Two: Stabat Mater / Symphony no. 3 "Song of the Night" / Demeter / Litany to the Virgin Mary”.
Released album “Deux violons”.
Released album “Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1 / Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2”.
Released album “Violin Concerto no. 2, op. 61 / Violin Sonata, op. 9”.
Died 1937-03-29.
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“Charakter narodowy kompozytora nie polega na cytatach folkloru, czego najwspanialszym przykładem jest twórczość Chopina.”
“Je cherche l'amour partout – et sans trêve. (fr.)”
“Je puisse, enivré, le poison d'amour. (fr.)”
“Dla mnie – jako muzyka – dzieła poetyckie dzielą się na dwie zasadnicze kategorie. Są dzieła, które dopiero w atmosferze muzyki nabierają prawdziwego życia i wyrazu. I inne, tak po brzegi wypełnione swoistą muzyką słowa i myśli, iż wszelkie wysiłki kompozytora, by uzupełnić to, co w istocie swej żyje organicznie niemal samowystarczalnym życiem, staje się beznadzieją, syzyfową pracą.”
“Sur tes lèvres fleuries s'évanouit l'ardeur de mes caresses. (fr.)”
“Je t'aime, j'adoreTon souple corps,La caresse lenteDe ta bouche frémissante. (fr.)”
“Zrobiłem cudowną podróż po Algierze, Saharze i Tunisie, czuję się znacznie lepiej…”
“Tutaj zupełnie cudownie, ale o tym wszystkim ustnie. Nie myślcie, że się jeszcze dalej wybieram – do Kongo lub Transvaalu – przeciwnie, wkrótce mamy zamiar wracać.”
“(…) cieszę się strasznie z tej ekspedycji – gdyż moje Nachtgespenstry (nocne zmory) się pomału rozwiewają. Jutro jedziemy do Algieru – Costantiny, Biskry i Tunisu. Tam następujący adres: Tunisie, Tunis Tunisia – Palace Hotel.”
“Całe moje życie obecne jest jakże dziwnym nieporozumieniem.”
“Opis: list do żony z 1937 roku.”
“Czym jest dla mnie Beethoven? Raczej jednak czym on dla mnie był? Czyż należy tu mówić o jego obiektywnej, istotnej wielkości? Chodzi o to jedynie, jak ja subiektywnie jego sztukę odczuwam. W mojej artystycznej młodości był on dla mnie najgłębszym przeżyciem. Po raz pierwszy zrozumiałem, jak - w królestwie sztuki - można się spalać na popiół we własnym ogniu.”
“Opis: o swojej Etiudzie b-moll op.4.”
“Jedno, co jest coś warte w życiu, to miłość. A tego miałem, dzięki Bogu, dużo!”
“Opis: o muzyce Ludwiga van Beethovena.”
“Opis: o Pieśniach muezina szalonego, op. 42.”
Szymanowski received more treatment at a sanatorium in Grasse, but it was no longer effective
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The symphony was performed in London, Bologna, Cleveland; Moscow, Zagreb, Bucharest; in 1934 in Paris, Sofia, London; in 1935 in Stockholm, Oslo, Bergen, Berlin, Rome, Liège and Maastricht; and in 1937 in The Hague
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Was followed by a series of performances abroad, mostly with Szymanowski at the piano and conducted by Grzegorz Fitelberg
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But the school was closed two years later by a ministerial decision
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Traveled to Davos, Switzerland, for medical treatment
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Szymanowski accepted the position of Director of the Warsaw Conservatory, though he had little administrative experience
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Szymanowski completed the manuscript (now mostly lost) of a two-volume novel, Efebos, which took homosexuality as its subject
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Born 1882-10-03.
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