Henryk Jarecki

Henryk Jarecki (born December 6, 1846 in Warsaw , † December 18, 1918 in Lemberg ) was a Polish composer , conductor and music teacher .

Life

Jarecki was the son of the organist and composer Józef Jarecki , from whom he received his first musical training. He later studied for eight years in Warsaw with Stanisław Moniuszko . From 1858 he was part of the Teatr Wielki ensemble , initially as a choir singer, and from 1864 to 1871 as a double bass player. In 1870 he directed a performance of Moniuszko's mass in the Sankt-Annen-Kirche.

In January 1872 he became a conductor at the Polish Theater in Poznan. On Moniuszko's recommendation, however, he received the post of second conductor at the Skarbek Theater in Lemberg just two months later. In 1877 he became first conductor. After a falling out with the director of the theater, Adam Miłaszewski , he went to Paris in 1882. There he performed his overture Balladyna with the Orchester Pasdeloup . When Jan Dobrzański took over the management of the Skarbek Theater in 1883 , he returned there.

In addition to his own operas, Jarecki has performed several operettas at this house, twenty-six operas by foreign composers (including Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser , Lohengrin and Rienzi ) and operas by Polish composers, including Duch wojewody by Ludwik Grossman , Don Desiderio by Józef Michał Poniatowski and Konrad Wallenrod and Goplana von Władysław Żeleński . Under his direction, singers such as Alexander von Bandrowski , Władysław Floriański , Marcelina Sembrich-Kochańska , Salome Kruschelnytska and Janina Korolewicz-Waydowa made their debut in Lviv .

Jarecki had to give up a position as second conductor of the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra , which he was given in 1902, after a few weeks for health reasons; he only led the orchestra occasionally when he performed his own works. In his later years he worked as a music teacher.

In addition to six operas, Jarecki composed church music, choral works and songs based on texts by poets such as Adam Mickiewicz , Juliusz Słowacki , Adam Asnyk , Jan Kochanowski and Stanisław Wyspiański .

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personal data
SURNAME	Jarecki, Henryk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish composer, conductor and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	December 6, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH	Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH	December 18, 1918
Place of death	Lviv