Bolesław Raczyński

Bolesław Zygmunt Raczyński

Bolesław Zygmunt Raczyński (born July 12, 1879 in Nowy Sącz , † March 19, 1937 in Cracow ) was a Polish composer and music teacher.

Raczyński studied from 1895 to 1902 at the Kraków Music Academy with Wincenty Singer (violin) and Władysław Żeleński and continued his training with Felicjan Szopski and in Leipzig with Stefan Krehl . He was a member of the Młoda Polska group of artists in Kraków . One of his first compositions was a piece for a performance by the Zielony Balonik cabaret in Café Jama Michalika .

In 1904 he met Stanisław Wyspiański , who portrayed him. In the following years he composed theatrical music for several of his dramas (including: Akropolis , Nocy listopadowej , Legiona , Legendy ). He composed other music for theater, among others, for The Clouds by Aristophanes , the Orestie by Aeschylus , Castus Joseph by Szymon Szymonowic and Demosthenes by Tadeusz Konczyński . As the musical director of the Kraków Theater, he prepared ten world premieres between 1908 and 1914.

While working in the archives of Wawels Castle, he and Bolesław Wallek-Walewski discovered several previously unknown compositions by Wacław z Szamotuł and Tomasz Szadek in 1908 . From 1908 he taught violin and music theory at the music institute founded by Wallek-Walewski. From autumn 1914 he was an employee of the Krukowski Opera Company, whose administrative director he became in 1919. In 1920 he was elected to the board of the Polish Musicians' Union in Krakow. He also taught singing at the Cracow Municipal Drama School from 1919 to 1921.

In the 1920s he wrote numerous articles, reviews and reviews of concerts, operas and operettas in various Krakow magazines. He also wrote a number of articles on Wyspiański. After a tram accident in which he lost a hand, he stopped composing and spent the last years of his life in poverty.

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• Ministerstwo Kultury - Bolesław Zygmunt Raczyński