Maciej Kamieński

Maciej Kamieński (born October 13, 1734 in Ödenburg , † January 25, 1821 in Warsaw ) was a Polish composer.

Kamieński received his training in Vienna and lived in Warsaw as a composer from 1760. He is considered the composer of the first Polish opera The Suffering Turned Into Happiness, also known as Glück im Unglück , which was premiered in 1778 at the National Theater in Warsaw . In addition to six Polish operas, he wrote two German operas, a cantata and some church music .

Operas

Nędza uszczęśliwiona ( Suffering Turned into Happiness, also called happiness in misery ), 1778
Zośka czyli Wiejskie zaloty ( Sophia or Courtship in the Country ), 1780

Prostota cnotliwa ( The Straight Path of Virtue ), 1781

Balik gospodarski (after La Bal bourgeois by Charles-Simon Favart ), 1783

Anton and Antoinette , 1785

Tradycia dowcipem załatwiona ( The tradition put down by wit ), 1789

Słowik czyli Kasia z Hanką na wydaniu ( The Nightingale or Kasia and Hanka are eligible for marriage ), 1790

Sultan Wampum or The Desires of August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue , 1794

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Kamienski, Mathias . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 10th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1863, p. 415 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

↑ Clive Unger-Hamilton, Neil Fairbairn, Derek Walters; German arrangement: Christian Barth, Holger Fliessbach, Horst Leuchtmann, et al .: The music - 1000 years of illustrated music history . Unipart-Verlag, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-8122-0132-1 , p. 92 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kamieński, Maciej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish composer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 13, 1734
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sopron
DATE OF DEATH	January 25, 1821
Place of death	Warsaw

[1] Clive Unger-Hamilton, Neil Fairbairn, Derek Walters; German arrangement: Christian Barth, Holger Fliessbach, Horst Leuchtmann, et al .: The music - 1000 years of illustrated music history . Unipart-Verlag, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-8122-0132-1 , p. 92 .