Augustyn Bloch

Augustyn Hipolit Bloch (born August 13, 1929 in Grudziądz , † April 6, 2006 in Warsaw ) was a Polish composer and organist .

After graduating from the State Music School in Gdansk - Langfuhr , Bloch studied at the State Music Academy in Warsaw with Feliks Rączkowski and Tadeusz Szeligowski (graduated in 1954 for organ playing, 1956 for composition studies). Among other things, he composed for Polish radio . From 1977 to 1979 he was Vice President of the Polish Composers' Union, from 1983 to 1987 Chairman of the Program Committee of the Warsaw Autumn Festival . He was married to the coloratura soprano Halina Łukomska-Bloch and was considered one of the most important exponents of new music in Poland. He has received numerous national and international awards for his work. For a time it was closely associated with the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music .

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• 1953 Fantasia per organo
• 1953 Piano Variations Karol Szymanowski in memoriam
• 1954 organ sonata
• 1956 children's songs for voice and instrumental ensemble
• 1958 Concertino for violin solo, string orchestra, piano and percussion
• 1959 Espressiono per soprano ed orchestra (to texts by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz )
• 1959 Impressioni poetiche for male choir and orchestra
• 1961 Soprano meditations for organ and percussion (to Bible texts)
• 1962 Voci - ballet in one act
• 1963 Oczekiwanie - ballet in one act
• 1965 Byk - ballet in one act
• 1967 ballet music Alejet, córka Jeftego
• 1970 Enfiando per orchestra
• 1971 Musical Pan Zagłoba
• 1973 Children's opera Bardzo śpiąca królewna (The Very Sleeping Beauty)
• 1974 Jubilate organ solo work
• 1974 Composition for lecturer and orchestra Poemat o Warszawie
• 1974 Christmas carol Z gwiazdą cudobudzie
• 1975 Zwierciadło - ballet pantomime
• 1976 Wordsworth songs - composition for baritone and chamber orchestra
• 1976 Clarinetto divertente - miniature for clarinet solo
• 1976 Taka sobie muzyka - song cycle for soprano and orchestra
• 1977 Głos milczenia - ballet pantomime
• 1977 children's songs for voice and piano
• 1978 Warstwy czasu ( Time Shifts ) for 15 string instruments
• 1979 choir composition Anenaiki
• 1979 children's musical Bajka o skrzypcowej duszy
• 1979 children's songs for voice and instrumental ensemble
• 1980 Carmen biblicum for soprano and nine instruments
• 1981 Piano music for children Chodzenie po klawiszach na cztery małe ręce i perkusję też nie dużą
• 1982 oratorio for organs, strings and percussion
• 1982 piano music for children Jazda na gapę przez Europę
• 1983 Organ work Supplicazioni per violoncello e pianoforte
• 1984 Organ work Canti per cordo ed organo
• 1985 Organ work Forte, piano et forte
• 1986 Zostań panie z nami - music at dusk for orchestra
• 1986 Dueto per violino e violoncello
• 1987 Psalmody for readers, organs, choirs and orchestra Albowiem nadejdzie światłość twoja
• 1987 Exaldato te domino organ
• 1988 Organ work Exaltabo te, domino per coro misto
• 1988 Lauda per soprano, alto, percussione e quattro archi
• 1988 Musica per tredici ottoni
• 1989 orchestral work with the choir Litania ostrobramska
• 1990 orchestral work Nie zabijaj
• 1992 Trio per violino, violoncello e pianoforte
• 1993 Wzwyż orchestral work
• 1995 Inflazioni per due violini Béla Bartók in memoriam
• 1996 Oratorio Hac fest die per organo, coro ed orchestra
• 1997 Oratorium gedanense 1997 per organo, coro ed orchestra
• 1998 Three pieces saxophone chamber orchestra (for the city of Darmstadt )
• 2002 Pieśń przed zaśnięciem (for soprano, choir and instrument ensemble)
• 2003 W Górze nad nami - meditations for 4 sopranos, altos, tenors, basses and organs

Literature / web links

• Michael F. Runowski: Polish organ music after 1945 , Saarbrücken: Verlag Dr. Müller 2009, ISBN 978-3-639-11690-8 .
• Detlef Gojowy: Augustyn Bloch - a composer's life in Poland , Cologne: Bela-Verlag 1999, ISBN 3-931430-01-4 . (Excerpt) ( Memento from March 11, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
• Works by and about Augustyn Bloch in the catalog of the German National Library