Adam Sołtys

Adam Sołtys (born July 4, 1890 in Lemberg ; † July 6, 1968 there ) was a Polish composer, conductor and music teacher.

The son of the composer Mieczysław Sołtys had violin and music theory lessons from his father and piano lessons from his mother from the age of six. From 1904 to 1911 he attended the Conservatory of the Galician Music Society. He then studied composition with Robert Kahn and Karl Leopold Wolf and conducting with Rudolf Krasselt at the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin-Charlottenburg and attended Georg Schumann's composition class at the Royal Academy of Arts . Until 1921 he studied at the Berlin University with Johannes Wolf , Carl Stumpf and Hermann Kretzschmar .

After his return he taught as a professor of harmony and counterpoint, later also for orchestration and conducting, at the Lviv Conservatory, of which he was director from 1930 to 1939. In 1927 he was a juror at the first International Chopin Competition in Warsaw.

From 1933 he was director of the Lviv Philharmonic . The orchestra's repertoire included great works such as the St. Luke and St. John Passions and Bach 's Christmas Oratorio, Beethoven's 9th Symphony , Verdi's Requiem and Brahms' German Requiem, Bruckner's Te Deum, Mahler's Song of the Earth and Stravinsky's Psalm Symphony . Above all, however, the orchestra dedicated itself to the dissemination of the works of contemporary Polish composers such as Grzegorz Fitelberg , Mieczysław Karłowicz , Witold Maliszewski , Zygmunt Noskowski , Ludomir Różycki and Karol Szymanowski .

After the Second World War , Sołtys taught again at the Lviv Conservatory. His students included u. a. Józef Michał Chomiński , Roman Palester , Jerzy Kołaczkowski , Witold Krzemieński , Stanisław Skrowaczewski , Tadeusz Machl , Andrzej Nikodemowicz , Zofia Iszkowska and Zofia Lissa . He has also conducted at the State Opera, the Ballet Theater and the State Philharmonic in his hometown and as a guest of the Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra.

Works

• Rondo for piano, 1912
• Intermezzo for piano, 1912
• Przedwiosnie , song for voice and piano, 1913
• The yellow sheet , song for voice and piano, 1915
• Das Bächlein , song for voice and piano, 1915
• Sweet deception , song for voice and piano, 1916
• Temat i wariacje for piano, 1916
• Sonata for violin and piano, 1916, 1925
• Elegia for orchestra, 1917
• Przyjscie , song for voice and piano, 1917
• Na dworze noc , song for voice and piano, 1917
• Ziemia obiecana , song for voice and piano, 1917
• Maki , song for voice and piano, 1917
• Symfonia No. 1 in D minor for organ and orchestra, 1922–25
• Noc majowa , song for voice and piano, 1923
• Poranny ptaszek spiewa , song for voice and piano, 1925
• Suita baletowa for orchestra, 1932
• Suita góralska for orchestra, 1938
• Kolysanka , song for voice and piano, 1940
• Symfonia nr 2 C sharp major , 1945
• Slowianie , symphonic poem for orchestra, 1947
• Suita na tematy slowianskie for orchestra, 1949
• Uroczysta uwertura for orchestra, 1950
• O pokój , symphonic poem for orchestra, 1953
• Suita for violin and piano, 1953
• Intrada for three trombones and tuba, 1954
• Fantazja na temat Warszawianki for orchestra, 1957
• Dudziarz , symphonic ballad for orchestra, 1957–58
• Kujawiak for violin and piano, 1962
• Concert for orchestra, 1964

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• Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzyczne - Adam Sołtys .
• Stanley S. Sokol, Sharon F. Mrotek Kissane, Alfred L. Abramowicz: The Polish biographical dictionary: profiles of nearly 900 Poles who have made lasting contributions to world civilization , Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1992, ISBN 9780865162457 , p. 380.