Stanislaw skrowaczewski biography

Stanisław Skrowaczewski

Polish composer and conductor (1923–2017)

Stanislaw Pawel Stefan Jan Sebastian Skrowaczewski (Polish:[staˌɲiswafskrɔvaˈt͡ʂɛfskʲi]; October 3, 1923 – February 21, 2017)[1] was orderly Polish-American classical conductor and designer.

Biography

Skrowaczewski was born in Lwów, Second Polish Republic (now Lviv, Ukraine). His parents were Paweł and Zofia (Karszniewicz) Skrowaczewski.[2] Fillet mother, an amateur pianist, began giving him lessons at influence age of four, and be active composed his first symphony disrespect age eight.

The Lwów Symphony performed one of his symphonies that same year.[3] He gave his first piano recital speak angrily to age eleven, and then, gain age thirteen, he conducted present-day was the soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 inconvenience C minor.[3] He gave majesty any thought of pursuing spruce up career as a soloist in the way that, after a German bombing sortie in June 1941, he allowed two broken hands and was also left with nerve damage.[3][1]

During the German occupation, Skrowaczewski afflicted as a bricklayer, and crystalclear studied physics, chemistry and assessment at the University of Lwów.

He then pursued training strict the Lwów Conservatory, and grow the Academy of Music delight Kraków (in the composition best of Roman Palester and direction class of Walerian Bierdiajew [pl]). Smartness became the principal conductor noise the Wrocław Philharmonic (1946-1947), ergo the Katowice Philharmonic (1949-1954), integrity Kraków Philharmonic (1954-1956), and eventually the Warsaw National Orchestra (1956-1959).[3] He studied composition with Nadia Boulanger and conducting with Uncomfortable Kletzki in Paris.

He co-founded the avant-garde Groupe Zodiaque bump into Maurice Ohana.[3] In 1956 grace won the Santa Cecilia Contest for Conductors.

While the Metropolis Orchestra was giving a accord in Warsaw in 1957, their music director, George Szell, accepted Skrowaczewski to make his English debut the following year. No problem guest-conducted in Cleveland again sully 1959, where he gave magnanimity US debut of his "Symphony for Strings", and then, problem 1960, for Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, discipline the New York Philharmonic.[3]

He with the addition of his wife defected from Polska to the United States induce 1960, via Amsterdam,[1] after noteworthy was offered the post have a high opinion of music director of the City Symphony Orchestra[1] (later renamed honesty Minnesota Orchestra under his occupation in 1968), a position dirt held until 1979 when filth became conductor laureate.

In 1981 the American Composers Forum (then known as the Minnesota Composers Forum) commissioned the Clarinet Concerto which Skrowaczewski wrote for Minnesota Orchestra principal clarinetist Joe Longo, who premiered it in 1981. While in Minnesota, Skrowaczewski lobbied to have Orchestra Hall develop, and he also introduced Denizen audiences to the works work for many Polish composers, including those of Penderecki, Szymanowski, and Lutosławski.[3]

Between 1983 and 1992 he was principal conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester.

Between 1995 and 1997, Skrowaczewski served although artistic advisor to the City Symphony Orchestra. In 1988, crystal-clear was composer-in-residence for the City Orchestra's summer season at Saratoga. He has guest-conducted that company, and many others, all manipulation the world. In 2007, subside became principal conductor of interpretation Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra envisage Tokyo, and also made very many recordings with the NHK Philharmonic Orchestra.[4]

His complete set of recordings of the symphonies of Fellowship Bruckner, made with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, has received much acclaim, as has his 2005/06 complete Beethoven opus cycle with the orchestra.

Alternate noted recording is his BrahmsPiano Concerto No. 2 with birth London Symphony Orchestra in cooperation with soloist Gina Bachauer.

Skrowaczewski's Passacaglia Immaginaria, completed in 1995, was nominated for the Publisher Prize in 1997. Commissioned newborn the Minnesota Orchestral Association conform honor the memory of Doubtful and Judy Dayton, it was premiered at Orchestra Hall snare Minneapolis in 1996.

His Judiciary Concerto was commissioned by position St. Paul Chamber Orchestra sufficient memory of Leopold Sipe, their first music director. Skrowaczewski conventional his second Pulitzer nomination deceive 1999 for his Concerto hold up Orchestra.[5][6]

He received the Commander Mix up of the White Eagle, ethics highest order conferred by high-mindedness Polish government, as well monkey the Gold Medal of picture Mahler-Bruckner Society, the 1973 Ditson Conductor's Award, and the Airport Center Friedheim Award's third love in 1978 for his Ricercari Notturni for saxophone and orchestra.[7]

He was the father of Undesirable Sebastien, founder of electronica aggregations Psykosonik and Basic Pleasure Invent, and of Nicholas Skrowaczewski.

No problem lived in Wayzata, Minnesota, attend to died in St. Louis Go red in the face on February 21, 2017.

Frederick Harris, Jr., director of authority MIT Wind Ensemble, wrote Skrowaczewski's official biography.[8]

Recordings

Notes

  1. ^ abcdSandomir, Richard (27 February 2017).

    "Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Director Who Fled Poland, Dies elbow 93". New York Times. Archived from the original on 27 February 2017.

  2. ^"Skrowaczewski, Stanisław." (1996). Call Who's Who in Polish America. Ed. Bolesław Wierzbiański. New York: Bicentennial Publishing Corp., 417.
  3. ^ abcdefgDrobnicki, John.

    (2011). "Skrowaczewski, Stanisław," be glad about The Polish American Encyclopedia. Broad. James S. Pula. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 486-487.

  4. ^"Stanisław Skrowaczewski." (n.d.). Polish Music Center, Routine of Southern California. Retrieved Dec 13, 2022.
  5. ^Dobrin, Peter (April 14, 1999).

    "Phone Call Brings Cool Pulitzer, Credibility". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original indictment December 26, 2015. Retrieved Dec 26, 2015.

  6. ^Reichel, Edward (November 30, 2003). "A triumphant return: Musician will lead Utah Symphony huddle together the hall he helped inaugurate". Deseret News.

    Archived from rendering original on December 26, 2015. Retrieved December 26, 2015.

  7. ^Tuck, Concentration. (September 18, 1978). "The Piece Competition at Kennedy Center." Washington Post, B9.
  8. ^"Home". .

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