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Stanisław Moniuszko (Polish pronunciation: [stãˈɲiswaf mɔ̃ˈɲuʃkɔ]; May 5, 1819, Ubiel, Minsk Governorate – June 4, 1872, Warsaw, Congress Poland) was a Polish composer, conductor and teacher. He wrote many popular art songs and operas, and his music is filled with patriotic folk themes of the peoples of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (predominantly the Poles, Lithuanians and Belarusians).
He is generally referred to as "the father of Polish national opera".
Works
Moniuszko's series of twelve song books is also notable, containing songs to the words of Mickiewicz, Odyniec, and Kraszewski.
An English version of Straszny Dwór (The Haunted Manor) was created and premiered by the student operatic society at Bristol university in 1970; this version has been performed since, specifically in 2001 by www.operasouth.co.uk Opera South, which company also presented the world premiere of a specially created new English version of Verbum Nobile in 2002.
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See also
References
- Аляксей Хадыка, "Станіслаў Манюшка — паляк, літвін..." Archived from the original on July 27, 2011. Retrieved 2013-01-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) Novy Chas.org, Culture. Retrieved from the Internet Archive, February 18, 2013. - http://www.poland.us/strona,13,4021,0,stanislaw-moniuszko-ojciec-polskiej-opery.html
External links
- RecMusic.org | Song texts
- NYTimes.com | Review of the "Haunted Manor"
- String Quartet Nos.1 & 2 sound-bites and discussion of works
- Free scores by Stanisław Moniuszko at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Free scores by Stanisław Moniuszko in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- How Family Shaped the Father of Polish Opera
- The Lesser Known Faces of Stanisław Moniuszko
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- 1819 births
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- People from Chervyen District
- People from Igumensky Uyezd
- Belarusian composers
- Male opera composers
- Polish classical composers
- Polish classical organists
- Male organists
- Polish conductors (music)
- Male conductors (music)
- Polish male classical composers
- Polish opera composers
- Polish people of Armenian descent
- Polish Romantic composers
- 19th-century classical composers
- 19th-century conductors (music)
- 19th-century organists
- 19th-century male musicians
- Fryderyk Chopin University of Music faculty
- Burials at Powązki Cemetery