Łucjan Kamieński

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Łucjan Kamieński (born January 7, 1885 in Gniezno , † July 27, 1964 in Toruń ) was a Polish musicologist and composer. Kamieński studied composition with Max Bruch and Robert Kahn and musicology with Hermann Kretzschmar and Johannes Wolf at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences from 1903 to 1909 . Until 1919 he was music editor at the Königsberger Allgemeine Zeitung .

Kamieński was a Freemason and from 1912 to 1920 a member of the Königsberg Lodge Zum Todtenkopf and Phoenix .

From 1920 he worked as the second director of the conservatory and from 1922 as an associate professor at the University of Poznan. In 1936 he received the title of professor; 1938-39 he was dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Poznan.

In addition to Adolf Chybiński and Zdzisław Jachimecki , Kamieński is considered the founder of Polish ethnomusicology. He started the first phonographic collection of the Polish Regional Phonographic Archive and developed modern methods of music-ethnological research and a model of field research, which was adopted by the next generations of Polish music-ethnologists. From 1928 to 1931 he was President of the Polish Society for Musicology.

In 1939 Kamieński was arrested by the Gestapo. He was released on the intervention of his wife, a German singer, but remained under police supervision. He found a job as archivist and took German citizenship in 1941.

After the war, he was accused of collaborating with the National Socialists and sentenced to three years in prison, the loss of his property and civil rights for signing German citizenship. However, he was pardoned and rehabilitated in 1960, but remained ousted from academic work. From 1949 to 1957 he taught at the Music School in Toruń, after which he lived as a freelance composer in Canada.

Works

  • 60 working songs for voice and piano
  • Thamar , opera
  • Piesni ludowe polskie for voice and piano
  • Sonata in D minor na skrzypce i fortepian
  • Fantaisie sur des Noëls Polonais (Koledy Polskie) for piano
  • Kolem, oj kolem ... , song for voice and piano (text: Lucjan Rydel )
  • Chocbym nie chcial , song for voice and piano (Text: Lucjan Rydel)
  • Piesn o morzu naszym for voice and piano
  • Pobudka for four-part male choir and wind orchestra
  • Kurdesze studenckie for voice and piano
  • 5 Piesni wielkopostnych for male choir a cappella
  • Kaszebscie nuti (Piesni kaszubskie) , 13 songs for voice and piano
  • Damy i huzary , comic opera based on a libretto by Aleksander Fredro
  • Rola wielkopolska , folk song for male choir a cappella

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronicle of the Johannisloge "Zum Todtenkopfe und Phönix". Berlin 2009, self-published by the Lodge "Zum Todtenkopf und Phoenix"
personal data
SURNAME Kamieński, Łucjan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish composer and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Gniezno
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1964
Place of death Toruń