Zygmunt Noskowski born (May 2, 1846 in Warsaw, died. July 23, 1909 in Warsaw), Polish Composer, Conductor and teacher. May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Warsaw (Polish: , , in full The Capital City of Warsaw, Polish: ) is the capital of Poland, its largest city, and a gamma world city. ... July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... Year 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Warsaw (Polish: , , in full The Capital City of Warsaw, Polish: ) is the capital of Poland, its largest city, and a gamma world city. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. ...

Zygmunt Noskowski (1846-1909) was born Warsaw and was originally trained at the Warsaw Conservatory studying violin and composition. A scholarship enabled him to travel to Berlin where between 1864 and 1867, he studied with Friedrich Kiel, one of Europe’s leading teachers of composition. After holding several positions abroad, Noskowski returned to Warsaw in 1880 where he remained for the rest of his life. Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... Friedrich Kiel (Bad Laasphe-Puderbach, October 8, 1821 - Berlin, September 13, 1885) was a German composer and music teacher. ...

He worked not only as a composer, but also became a famous teacher, a prominent conductor and a journalist. He was one of the leading figures in Polish music during the late 19th century and the first decade of the 20th. He taught virtually of all the important Polish composers of the next generation, including Karol Szymanowki and Grzegorz Fitelberg. He is considered today to be the first Polish symphonic composer and served as head of the Warsaw Music Society from 1880 to 1902 and was considered Poland’s leading composer during the last decade of his life. Grzegorz Fitelberg (b. ...

While Noskowski is best known for his orchestral compositions, he composed opera, chamber music, instrumental sonatas and vocal works of importantce. Discussing Nowkowski's chamber music, the famous critic and scholar Wilhelm Altmann wrote that it was "very effective and deserving of public attention and performance." Judging from the piano quartet written in 1879, one can hear that Noskowski had assimilated the recent musical developments taking place in Central Europe but the music, other than structurally, shows little or no influence of any of the major composers of the time, such as Brahms, Liszt, or Wagner, who were then dominating the scene. Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (May 7, 1833 – April 3, 1897) was a German composer of classical music. ... Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a virtuoso pianist and composer. ... Wagner may refer to more than one place in the United States: Wagner, South Dakota Wagner, Wisconsin Wagner may refer to more than one person: Richard Wagner, German composer Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Richard Wagner Heinrich Leopold Wagner, dramatist and author John Peter Honus Wagner...

List of Selected Works

• Symphony No.1 in A Major, WoO (1874-1875)
• Morskie Oko Concert Overature for Orchestra Op. 19
• Symphony No.2 "Elegiac"
• A Polish Elegy for Orchestra in e minor (1885)
• The Steppe, a symphonic poem, Op. 66
• March funebre for orchestra, Op. 53 [1897)
• Symphony No.3 in F Major, "From Spring to Spring, WoO (1903)
• Symphonic Variations on Chopin's Prelude, Op.28 No.7
• Livia Quintilla, an opera (1898)
• Wyrok (The Judgment), an opera
• Zemsta za mur granicmy (Revenge of the Boundary Wall), an opera
• String Quartet (1875)
• Fantasy for String Quartet (1879)
• Piano Quartet in d minor, Op.8 (1880)

References

• Wronski, Witold, Zygmunt Noskowski, Warsaw 1960
• Sutkowski, A, Zygmunt Noskowski, Krakow, 1957
• Altmann, Wilhelm, Handbuch fûr Streichquartettspieler, Heinrichshofen, Amsterdam, 1972

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External Links

• Zygmunt Noskowski Piano Quartet, Op.8 sound-bites and a short biograph