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MICKIEWfCZ

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MARION MOORE COLEMAN

1955

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" In every society consisting of the Poles alone, Mickiewicz's poetry was always sung; and often have I seen him assisting at the piano, and endeavoring to in- still into the mind of the singer the different passages of his song. "

Frederick Chamier ( 1830 )

MICKIEWICZ IN MUSIC

Notes and Addenda to the Original Work of this title by A. P. and M. M. Coleman ( 1947 ).

Jan Gall ( 1856-1912 )

The Kantata Mickiewicza referred to in

, Question 3 on page 33 of Mickiewicz in Music

was a choral work composed for the ceremonies

which attended the unveiling of a monument to

Mickiewicz in Lwow, on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the poet's birth. The monument was unveiled in 1904.

Glinka and Mickiewicz

It is probable, says Zofja Lissa ( " Michaf Glinka w Warszawie, " Odrodzenie, May 18, 1947, p. 6 ) that the two artists Glinka and Mickiewicz met face to face, and perhaps in two widely separated parts of Europe, Russia and Italy.

The first meeting occurred, the author be- lieves, at the home of Marja Szymanowska, in Moscow, and was the spur which impelled Glinka to compose musical settings for the two poems of Mickiewicz, " Moja piesczotka " and " Rozmowa. "

The two were in Rome at the same time in the years 1829 and 1830, and probably met there also, perhaps at the home of Princess Volkonskaya, where Mickiewicz was a frequent guest.

Musical Compositions to Works by Mickiewicz in addition to those Listed in Mickiewicz in Music, The numbering corresponds to that in the original list.

DO SAMOTNOSCI

a. Song by Henry Nagbrka, Mickiewicz in Music, 156.

8. DZIADY II

b 2). " Tus niegdys" w wiosny poranki " ( Zosia's Song ) c. Stanisiaw Niedzielski ( 1842-1895 ) 10. DZIADY IV

b 3). " Najprz6d ciebie wspomina " ( Btret )

c. Niewiadomski, Kurhanek Maryli, Part II, 4. 13. GRAZYNA

c. Wiadysiaw Brankiewicz ( 1853-1929 ) composed an opera Grazyna, but

this, according to the Sjrownik biograficzny, was " lost in a disaster at sea. "

d. Antoni Janusz, a Canadian composer ( b. ca. 1930 ), has composed a

ballade Grazyna, which he played at the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York on June 1, 1951. Janusz is a violinist.

16. KONRAD WALLENROD

( Ignacy Dobrzynski ( 1807-1867 ) was at work on an opera based on the first two parts of this poem when he died. The work was to have been entitled Krzyzacy. ) ( Reiss, I, 136 ).

b 2). Piesn z wiezy ( The Song from the Tower )

c. Ignacy Komorowski ( 1825-57 ). ( Orgelbrandt )

d„ Kazimierz Lubomirski ( 1813-1871 ). ( Orgelbrandt ) 21. NIEPEWNO&6

d. Kazimierz Lubomirski, Op. 18, 1865. For voice and piano.

FURTHER ADDENDA

3TJRZA

a* Song by Henryk Cylkow, Op. 17, No. 1, in Wybor pieiSni kompozytorow polskich, Warsaw, 1952, Vol. 2.

3TRZSJi;C

a. Song by Henryk Cylkow, Op. 17, No. 3, in the above, Vol. 1.

I The3e items were called to our attention by Miss Alice Rozan. J

22. ODA DO MLODO^CI

c. Cantata by Wilhelm Czerwinski ( 1837-1893 ). ( Reiss, I, 120 ).

26. PIERWIOSNEK

c. Kazimierz Lubomirski, Op. 3, 1865.

28. PIE£N ZOLNIERZA

a. " Piosnka zolTnierza, " Niewiadomski, Kurhanek Maryli, Part I, No, 3. RENEGAT

a. Ballad by Piotr Maszyfiski. 36. ROZMOWA

d. " Kochanko moja, na co mi rozmowa, " Cesar Cui.

e. Kazimierz Lubomirski, Op. 1, Part 2.

39. SEN

c. Kazimierz Lubomirski, Op. 1, Part 2.

44. " Te rozkwitie swiezo drzewa "

c. " Kwiecien, " Henryk Opieriski, Op. 3, Pies"nie Mickiewiczowskie, Zofja Lissa, Ed. , Part II, 30-32.

In the above, the work referred to as Reiss is the Podrgczna Encyklopedia Muzyki, J<5zef W. Reiss, Editor, Krak6w, 1949-50, of which Alliance College Library has the first two fascicles. Orgelbrandt is, of course, the standard Polish Encyklopedja Pow szechna.

In preparing the present work, we have been not only aided, but inspired, by Miss Alice Rozan of Buffalo, New York. A col- lector of Polish songs, Miss Rozan has among her treasures a copy of the Niewiadomski work noted above, Kurhanek Maryli, which she graciously permitted us to consult.

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MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS T . ADAM MIC IC

In addition to those listed in MIcklewicz in Music (1947) and Supplement ( Jan0 1955 )& NuSBerlng corresponds to that In the original list (MInM, PP« 21-32 J© If no number ia given, this means there was no listing of the poem in MinMo

3URZA (Sonet krymski IV) First issued in Sonety^ Moscow, 1826

b© In 1868 Peter Ilich Chaikovsky (1840-93) began work on a composition, designed as an opera, based on Pushkin *s translation (1833) of Micklewicz ls poem and entitled Le vfcrevode© Of the work, but two fragments remains the ^ verCureT and an n Entr*acte €t air de ballet© n Date of publication unknown© Later one Eramer arranged a so~ lo for piano from this compos I tlon© Chronologically Chaikovsky 9s Le Vcyevpde comes after Loewe *s song to this poem and before ffoniuszko *s (MInM, pa 21),

190 MOJA PIF.SZCZOTKA Written in Odessa, 1825

d9 Song by Peter Ilich Chaikovsky, * Mbya b&lcvnitsa B ( Fillet te charmante), Russian words by Lev Alexandrovich Mey (1822-62), Wo© 6 in Op© 27, Six romances » published by P© Jurgenson, Moscow, 18750 This setting is regarded by most as inferior to the one by Glinka, which is said by Mrs* Nina Vernadsky to have been a favorite with Tol- stoy # especially as sung by his sister-in-law, Tatiana© Chronologically this comes after Glinka's setting, and before Cul's*

b0 Song by Peter Ilich Chaikovsky, tt Na zemlu surmak pal " (Le soir et le matin), Russian words by N9 V/D Berg (1323- 83), No0 3 in 0po 47s Sept romances 9 publ5.shed by P© Jur- genson, Moscow, 1831©

3TRZF.IEC (Sonet erotyczny IX) Sonetys Moscow, 1826

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In the above, the first and last items were called to our attention by Miss Alice Rozan of Buffalo, Ho YG, the other three (1, 19, 34) by a note In the London publication Wiadomojci (Noe 449, Nov0 7, 1954) and later were checked by Mr* William Lichtenwanger of the Music "Division of the Library of Congress© To both, our thanks©

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