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Polish pianist, composer and poet (1836–1878)

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Count Władysław Tarnowski (June 4, 1836 – April 19, 1878), also known by his pen name Ernest Buława, was a Polish pianist, composer, poet, dramatist, and translator.

Tarnowski was born in Wróblewice, an administrative district of Drohobycz in modern day Ukraine, to Count Walerian Spycimir Tarnowski and Ernestyna Tarnowska. As a young prodigy, he was introduced to famed composer Frédéric Chopin. He studied in Lviv and Kraków, with Daniel Auber at the Conservatoire de Paris, with a break during the January Uprising of 1863-64, during which he wrote the song "Jak to na wojence ładnie" ("Isn't the war fun") which remains popular to the modern day, in various alterations. He traveled widely, giving concerts in Wrocław in 1860 and 1875, Vienna, Venice and Florence in 1872, Paris in 1873, and Lviv in 1875. He toured the Middle East and Asia, lived in India, China, and Japan, and died near San Francisco while on the steamer SS Pacific, returning from Japan.

Compositions

Intimate

String Quartet in D major
Fantasia quasi una sonata (on violins and piano)
Souvenir d'un ange (Vienna about 1876, publ. V. Kratochwill)

Piano

3 Mazurkas (3 Mazurkas, Vienna about 1870, publ. Bösendorfer), I Mazurka, II Mazurka, III Mazurka
2 pieces : Chart sans paroles, Valse - poeme (both Leipzig c. 1870, publ. Ch. F Kahut)
Deux Morceaux : Fantazie-Impromptu, Valse-poeme
Impromptu "L'adieu de l'artiste" (Vienna c. 1870, publ. J. Gutmann)
Symfonia d’un drammo d’amore (1871)
Sonate pour piano composée et dediée a son ami Br. Zawadzki (Vienna c. 1875, publ. V. Kratochwill)
Grande polonaise quasi rhapsodies symphonique (Vienna c. 1875, publ. J. Gutmann)
Extases au Bosphor, fantasie rhapsodies sur les melodies orientales op. 10 (Leipzig c. 1875, publ. Forberg)
Nocturne dédié à sa soeur Marie (Viena, n.d.)
Deux Nocturnes : „Nuit sombre”, „Nuit claire”
Ave Maria, dedicated to J. I. Kraszewski (in: Album Muzeum Narodowego w Rapperswyllu, 1876, pp.), (with Variations for choir and organ, and for string quartet)
Ave Maria
Pensée funebre (before 1878)
Andantino pensieroso ("Echo Muzyczne", Warszaw, issue 6, 17 XII 1878.)

Andantino pensieroso

Songs

Solo:

Uhlans march, called also Soldiers song, March soldier's Langiewicza with initial words: "A kto chce rozkoszy użyć”And who wants pleasure to use, and today more well-known with words "Jak to na wojence ładnie” ("How this on war nicely") (first publications: „Kieszonkowy słowniczek polski z melodiami” Poznan 1889, publ. J. Leitgebera and " War song” Lwow 1908, publ. B. Połoniecki, suitably).

With piano accompaniment:

Cypryssen 5 characterische Gesänge (Vienna 1870, publ. Bösendorfera), fifth of the songs: Herangedämmert kam der Abend, Die Perle, Die Schwalben, Im Traum sah ich das Lieben, Ich sank verweint in sanften Schlummer

Ich sank verweint in sanften schlummer - piano instead of the voice

Neig, o Schöne Knospe, song to poem Mirza Shafi Vazeh

Neig o schone Knospe - piano instead of the voice

Zwei Gesänge mit Begleitung des Pianoforte – Du buch mit Siegen Siegeln, Ob Du Nun ruhst, songs to poem Ludwig Foglar (Vienna c. 1870, publ. V. Kratochwill)

Du buch mit sieben siegeln - piano instead of the voice

Ob du nun ruhst - piano instead of the voice

Zwei Gesänge: Klänge Und Schmerzen, Nächtliche Regung (Leipzig, c. 1870, publ. Ch. E. Kahnt)
Au soleil couchant (1873) song to the poem by Victor Hugo
Still klingt das Glöcklein durch Felder (Vienna c. ~1875, publ. J. Gutmann)

Still klingt das Glocklein durch Felder - accompaniment

Kennst du die Rosen., to own poem, (published J. Gutmann in Vienna.)

Kennst du die Rosen - piano instead of the voice

Mein Kahn - song to poem by Johann von Paümann ps. Hans Max (Wiedeń, wyd. Buchholz & Diedel)
Alpuhara (1877) song to the poem by Adam Mickiewicz

Stage

Achmed the oder the Pilger the Liebe (Achmed, pielgrzym milości, to own libretto, based on the tale Washington Irving Legend of Prince Ahmed al Kamel, or, The Pilgrim of Love. from Tales of the Alhambra. The piano extract, Leipzig, c. 1875, publ. R. Forberg.)
Karlinscy (music to own theatrical art, Vienna 1874, publ. V. Kratochwill)
Joanna Grey (music to own theatrical art, Vienna 1875, publ. V. Kratochwill)

Alastor's romance from: Joanna Grey - piano instead of the string trio

The patron of the art, poems, the articles, reviews of literary works(ex. in „Ruch literacki” and „Tygodnik ilustrowany”).

Literary works

Poetry

Krople czary (The Drops of goblet) 1865
Szkice helweckie i Talia (Helvetian drafts and Waist) 1868 (Leipzig, publ. P. Rhode)
Piołuny (Absinthes) 1869
Kochankowie ojczyzny (The Lovers of motherland) 1872

Dramas

Karlińscy 1874
Joanna Grey (Jane Grey) 1875
The Achmed the oder the Pilger the Liebe - libretto in German.

Publicist

Articles and reviews in „Ruch literacki” and „Tygodnik ilustrowany”.

Documentary

Archiwum Wróblewieckie (Lvov 1883, publ. Gubrynowicz and Schmidt; Poznan - Dresden 1869, publ. J. I. Kraszewski)

Translations

The Osjan Song,
Hamlet W. Shakespeare'a
Works P.B. Shelley
Works H. Haine
P. Cornelius: Grundzüge der Geschichte der Musik, well-known with translated title: Zarys historii muzyki ("Outline of history of music") (Leipzig 1869).

References

^ Grove, George (2000). Sadie, Stanley (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol. 25 (Taiwan to Twelve Apostles). pp. 103–104. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5.
"String quartet in D major" - scans in IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
The score of the 3 Mazurkas in the collection of Bibliothek der Gesellschaft der Musikfreund in Vienna, sygn. GM VII 39428.
„Biblioteka warszawska : pismo poświęcone naukom, sztukom i przemysłowi”, Vol. 2, 1871, p. 499.
Adolf Hofmeister,”Handbuch der musikalischen Litteratur”, ed. Adolf i Friedrich Hofmeister, Vol. for y. 1860-67, p. 260.
Agaton Giller Podróż artystyczna Władysława Tarnowskiego w Saksonji in: Ruch Literacki, issue 17, 21 IV 1877, p. 270.
„Ruch Literacki”, issue 21, 25 V 1878, p 334.
Andantino pensieroso in: CBN - Polona.
Biblioteka warszawska : pismo poświęcone naukom, sztukom i przemysłowi, Vol. 2, 1873, p. 352.
Kłosy, issue 623, 26 V (7 VI) 1877, p. 268-269.
Agaton Giller Podróż artystyczna Władysława Tarnowskiego w Saksonji in: Ruch Literacki, issue 17, 21 IV 1877, p. 270.