Gabriela Moyseowicz

Gabriela Moyseowicz, 2018

Gabriela Maria Moyseowicz (born May 4, 1944 in Lemberg ) is a Polish composer and pianist who has worked in Berlin since 1974 .

Her family had to leave Lviv after the Second World War and came to Danzig-Langfuhr in August 1945 .

Little Gabriela was already playing the piano at the age of three. Their perfect pitch was discovered very early . In June 1952 she moved with her family to Gleiwitz and began to attend the music school in Bytom .

Professor Stanisław Wiechowicz in Krakow rated Gabriela's talent highly. 1958–1962 she attended the Chopin Music Academy in Kraków, where she perfected her talent in the piano class of Mrs. Danuta Myczkowska-Grydil.

At the age of 13 she composed a concerto for two pianos in the style of Mozart's Coronation Concerto KV 537 . After its premiere in Cracow, it was immediately accepted into the Cracow Academy of Music.

One of the Krakow music critics rated Gabriela's first atonal composition very highly - the 1st piano sonata (1960). The atonal composition “Media Vita” (1961) was also warmly received by the critics.

Since 1962 Gabriela Moyseowicz studied at the Faculty of Composition, Theory and Conducting of the Krakow Music Academy and at the Karol Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice . Her studies were completed in 1967 and she presented the 2nd piano concerto as a thesis.

1967–1974 she received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and Art. From 1967 to 1970 she was a member of the Young Artists' Association of Polish Composers. 1968–1972 she taught music in the vocational school and technical center for the metallurgical industry in Gliwice.

In 1974 Gabriela Moyseowicz moved to West Berlin. From 1975 to 2005 she was the organist and director of the church choir in the Catholic St. Bernhard Church on Sterkrader Straße (Tegel). She also taught music in the music school in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

She made several sound recordings of her own works for Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. CDs of her compositions for orchestra and piano have also been produced. A Berlin publisher published scores of around twenty of her works.

Works

The critical attitude towards postdodecafony and other radical opinions regarding contemporary music are presented in her diploma thesis (1967) "Exemplifying one's own aesthetics based on the 2nd piano concerto". According to the expectations of a contemporary listener, Moyseowicz's musical language transcends the old melodic and harmonic conventions, and its strong emotional character allows Moyseowicz's work to be localized in the post-expressionist trend of the 20th century.

Works sponsored by the Polish Ministry of Culture and Art

• Rapsod for viola and orchestra (1968)
• "Musique en trois styles" for violin, violoncello and piano (1969)
• "Riconoscimento" to the text by Cyprian Kamil Norwid (1968)
• Cantata Solemnis for female choir, baritone solo and orchestra to text by I. Iszkowska (1969)
• III. Concerto for piano and string orchestra (1971)
• "Dies irae" for choir and 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, horn, 2 trumpets, 6 violins I, 5 violins II, 3 violas, 2 cellos, 2 double basses (1963)

Piano works

• Variations "Monte Cassino" for piano (1961)
• Oriental triptych for piano (1962) dedicated to Anna Barawska
• Passacaglia and Fugue for piano (1966/67)
• Sonata No. 1 (1960)
• Sonata No. 2 (1962) dedicated to Danuta Myczkowska
• Sonata No. 3 (1963) dedicated to Barbara Buczek
• Sonata No. 4 (1963/64)
• Sonata No. 5 (1973/74)
• Sonata No. 6 "Neumenon" (1976)
• Sonata No. 7 (1978)
• Sonata No. 7, 2nd version (2006) dedicated to Jan Fischdick
• Sonata No. 8 “Concatenatio” (1981) dedicated to Helga von Kügelgen
• "Norwidiana" (1995)
• Rapsod No. 1 (1983/84) Dedicated to Detlef Gojowy
• Rapsod No. 2 (1984/85)
• Rapsod No. 3 “Empyreum” (1989) dedicated to Bettina Brand
• 9 Moments musicaux - piano version (1964)

Chamber music works

• "Polish Sonata" for violin and piano (1979/80)
• Sonata for violin and piano No. 2 (1987)
• Sonata for violoncello and piano No. 1 (1977)
• Sonata for violoncello and piano No. 2 (1988)
• "Discours avec Mme Steingroever" for flute and piano (1993)
• 9 Moments musicaux (1964) version for piano and string orchestra
• "Hommage à la Pologne" for violin solo, piano, flute, clarinet and string quartet (2015)

Solo works for violin, violoncello and viola da gamba

• Two Capriccios for Violin Solo (1972)
• Passacaglia for violin solo (1994)
• Two kanzons for viola da gamba solo (1980)
• Chaconne for violoncello solo (2004)

Works for larger instrumental ensembles, choir and orchestra

• Media Vita for two violins, violoncello, soprano, bass recitative (1961)
• "Dies irae" for choir and 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, horn, 2 trumpets, 6 violins I, 5 violins II, 3 violas, 2 cellos, 2 double basses (1963)
• "Stabat Mater" - oratorio for choir, mezzo-soprano, tenor, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 1 contrabassoon, 2 trumpets, 2 horns, 2 trombones, 1 tuba, 2 timpani and string quintet (1972/73)
• Shadow Symphony (1996)
• "Memento Mori I" for two pianos, trumpet, trombone, violin I, violin II, viola da gamba, violoncello (1988)
• "Memento Mori II" for choir, two pianos, trumpet, trombone, violin I, violin II, viola da gamba, cello (1990)
• "Ave Maria" for 2 mixed choirs a cappella (1976)
• "Pater Noster" for 6-part a cappella choir (1978)
• Five songs for 8-part a cappella choir, words by Władysław Broniewski (1971)
• "Kyrie" in memoriam Nathalie Hidalgo Sánchez for three mixed choirs a cappella (1982)
• Overture " To Beethoven " for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, 2 horns, 2 timpani and string quartet (1970)
• "Riconoscimento" - words by Cyprian Kamil Norwid , for bass, alto, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns and string quartet (1968)
• Trio for violin, horn or violoncello and piano (2010)
• II. Symphony "Leopolis" (2010/11)
• Rapsod for viola and orchestra (1968)
• Rapsod (concert) for violin and orchestra (1964)
• I. Concerto for piano and orchestra (1960/61)
• II. Concerto for piano and orchestra (1965/66)
• III. Piano Concerto (1971)
• IV.Piano Concerto (2002)

Church choral works

• "Alleluja" for three-part choir (1986)
• "Amen" (1989)
• "Credo" (1991)
• "See, your light will come ..." (1996)

Works for the music school in Gliwice

• Capriccio for strings (1967)
• “Marche funebre” for violin and orchestra (1968) in memory of director M. Bugiel
• "Marche funebre" version for violoncello and piano (1980)
• Fugue and Postludium for String Orchestra (1996)
• Recitatio for tenor and strings to the text by Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (2000)
• Concertino “Izabela” for violin and piano (2005), dedicated to Isabelle Widenka

Occasional works for flute and piano for Mrs. Herta Steingroever

• Serenade (1997)
• "Ku'damm-Promenade" (2004)
• Moment musical (2005)
• "Viennese pancake polka" (2008)
• "Berliner Bouletten-March" (2012)

For the actress Angelika Maria Škoda

• Chanson "Sultry" (1989)
• Two recited songs to the text by Paul Verlaine (1989)
• Three songs to the text by Ingeborg Bachmann (2003)
• Four songs for one voice with piano accompaniment to the text by M. Mendes, ordered by the poet (1998)
• Fanfare for the year 2000 for the Hotel Steigenberger in Bad Reichenhall for 2 trumpets, 2 trombones and organ (1999)

swell

• Official website
• “NEULAND, Approaches to Contemporary Music” , Vol. 4 (1983/4), Martella Gutiérrez-Denhoff, Inspiration as a Source of Composition, A Portrait of the Composer Gabriela Moyseowicz P. 107–110: Catalog raisonné Gabriela Moyseowicz, P. 110
• “ Female composers from 500 years” by Eva Weissweiler, Fischer Taschenbücher, 1981, ISBN 3596237149
• “International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory” , by David M. Cummings, ISBN 0948875534
• “Who doesn't kick his piano…” by Bettina Brand, “Neue Berlinische Musikzeitung” , Berlin 1988, issue 3

Web links

• Homage a la Pologne (YouTube)