Tadeusz Szeligowski

Musical education Tadeusz Szeligowski was born on 13 September 1896 in Lemberg, then in Austro-Hungarian Galicia and now in western Ukraine. Szeligowski's first music and piano teacher was his mother. Later he began studying music at the Conservatory of Music of the Polish Society in L'vov in the years 1910–1914, where he studied piano under the direction of Vilem Kurz, and then from 1918 to 1923 in Kraków, where he studied piano with H. Peters, and composition with Bolesław Wallek-Walewski. Szeligowski's further education included musicology with Zdzisław Jachimecki and law at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where he received his doctorate in 1922. There he found work as repetiteur at the Kraków Opera House, allowing him to become well acquainted with the opera repertoire. There he attended many concerts and intensely experienced the latest compositions by Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, ballet productions of many famous companies, as well as highly acclaimed performances by Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, Arthur Rubinstein and Ignacy Jan Paderewski. he began teaching music in Poznań until 1939, and then moved to Lublin for a little while after World War II. In addition, he was the initiator of the festival of contemporary music, the "Poznań Musical Spring", where modern music was then presented in all its glory, Tadeusz Szeligowski died in Poznań on 10 January 1963 and since 1965 he has been buried in the Poznań Skalka crypt of Merit. ==Awards==

Szeligowski received numerous awards, among them: • • • • • • Also, he received numerous prizes and awards, including: • The City of Poznań Music Prize • • • ==Compositions==

Instrumental Orchestral works • The Peasant King - Overture to the comedy of Piotr Baryka for orchestra (1926) • ''Kaziuki - St. Casimir's Day,'' suite for orchestra (1928–29) • Concerto for Orchestra (1930) • Archaic Suite for orchestra (1930) • Little Suite for orchestra (1931) • Clarinet Concerto (1933) • Andante for clarinet and orchestra (1933) • Blue Bird - suite for orchestra (1936) • Epitaph on the death of Karol Szymanowski for string orchestra (1937) • Carol Suite for string orchestra (1939) • Piano Concerto (1941) • Suite for small orchestra of Lublin (1945) • Kupałowa night - suite for orchestra (1945) • Nocturno for orchestra (1947) • Comedy Overture for small symphony orchestra (1952) • The peacock and girl ballet suite for orchestra (1953) • Four Polish Dances for symphony orchestra (1954) • Theodore Gentleman, opera in 2 acts ( 1960) ==See also==

• Zofia, Lissa; Rise of scholars, Tadeusz Szeligowski, PWM, Kraków 1957 • Rozmowy "Movement Music". Says Tadeusz Szeligowski, Movement Music 1959 • Podhajski, Marek; Tadeusz Szeligowski: counterpoint studies with Nadia Boulanger, Res Fact No. 8, PWM, Kraków 1977 • Szantruczek, Tadeusz; Compose... and die. The thing about Tadeusz Szeligowski, Ars Nova, Poznan 1997 • Szeligowski, Tadeusz; (biography), in: Encyclopedia of Music, ed. by A. Chodkowski, OWN, Warsaw 2001, p. 866 • Szeligowski, Tadeusz; (biography), in: M. Hanuszewska B. Schaeffer, Polish Almanac of contemporary composers, PWM, Kraków 1982, p. 263-265 • Szeligowski, Tadeusz; Studies and Memories, edited by F. Wozniak, Pomerania, Bydgoszcz 1987 • Szeligowski, Tadeusz; Around the author and his works, ed. by T. Brodniewicz, J. Kempinski, J. Tatar, Ars Nova, Poznan 1998 • Szeligowski, Tadeusz; ''The 10th anniversary of the composer's death, the materials of the scientific session'', Academy of Music, Gdańsk 1973 ==References==