Miłosz Magin

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Miłosz Magin (born July 6, 1929 in Łódź , Poland, † March 4, 1999 in Bora Bora , French Polynesia ) was a Polish-French pianist and composer.

Life

Magin grew up in Łódź. From 1951 to 1957 he studied piano at the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw in the class of Margerita Trombini-Kazuro and composition with Jan Adam Maklakiewicz and Kazimierz Sikorski . In 1955 he took part in the International Chopin Competition and received a commendation, in 1957 he was sixth at the Long Thibaud Competition in France and third at the Vianna da Motta piano competition in Lisbon.

Magin emigrated to Great Britain with his wife in 1957, lived in London until 1959 and settled permanently in France, Paris, in 1960. Magin, who performed regularly, suffered a broken left wrist in a car accident in 1963 and the fingers remained numb. He then devoted himself more to his compositional work and taught piano between 1963 and 1973 at the Conservatoire Russe de Paris Serge Rachmaninoff and from 1975 to 1980 at the Université musicale internationale de Paris. From 1992 to 1997 he was a juror at the International Karol Szymanowski Competition in Łódź and gave master classes at the Łódź Music Academy .

In 1985 Magin founded the International Miłosz Magin Competition in France, which took place every two years until 2015 and was dedicated to Polish compositions.

Magin resumed concert activities in the late 1960s and recorded the oeuvre of Frédéric Chopin for Decca Records in the following years . The Polish label Polskie Nagrania Muza released Magin's Concerto No. 3 for piano, string orchestra and percussion with the Philharmonic Orchestra Łódź under the baton of Wojciech Czepiel in 1992.

Magin died during a concert tour to Bora Bora and was buried in Paris in the Père Lachaise cemetery.

Compositions

Piano works

Piano for two hands

  • Scherzo (1948)
  • Polka (1948)
  • Danse de la sorcière (1948)
  • Images d'enfantes (1952)
  • Toccate, Choral and Fugue (1955)
  • Five Preludes (1963)
  • Triptyque polonais (1967)
  • Sonata No. 1 (1968)
  • Petite suite polonaise (1974)
  • Sonata No. 2 (1981)
  • Sonatina (1982)
  • Images de Pologne (1982)
  • Miniatures polonaises (1982)
  • Petites danses polonaises (1987)
  • Rondes enfantines (1987)
  • Carnaval des poupées (1990)
  • Sonata No. 3 (1990)
  • Soirée dansante (1995)
  • Les jouets enchantés (1996)
  • Sonata No. 4 (1997)
  • Tango (1997)

Piano for four hands

  • Divertimento (1984)

Orchestral works

Works for solo instrument and orchestra

  • Cracovienne for piano and orchestra (1950)
  • Piano Concerto No. 1 (1954)
  • Concerto rustico for violin (1975)
  • Concerto No. 1 for violoncello (1977)
  • Concerto No. 2 for violoncello (1980)
  • Concerto for Clarinet (1990)

Other orchestral works

  • Basilisk Ballet (1948-90)
  • Polish Rhapsody for orchestra (1963)
  • Concerto No. 2 for piano, string orchestra and timpani (1964)
  • Musique des morts for string orchestra and percussion (1965)
  • Polish Suite for Orchestra (1966)
  • Symphony No. 1 for string orchestra (1969)
  • Concerto No. 3 for piano, string orchestra and percussion (1970)
  • Stabat Mater for string orchestra and percussion (1972)
  • Adagio for string orchestra (1980)
  • Symphony No. 2 for string orchestra and percussion (1988)
  • Concerto No. 4 for piano, string orchestra and timpani (1998)

Chamber music and others

  • Polish Caprice for clarinet (1997)
  • Andante for violin and piano (1963)
  • Four Vocalises for soprano and piano (1985)
  • Vier Vocalises transcription for clarinet and piano (1985)
  • Danses polonaises for violin and piano (1994)
  • Danses polonaises for clarinet and piano (1994)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Miłosz Magin. Polish Music Information Center, accessed October 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Martin Anderson: Obituary: Milosz Magin. The Independent , March 24, 1999, accessed October 6, 2019 .
  3. ^ Concours international de piano Milosz Magin. In: Wayback Machine . Concours international de piano Milosz Magin, accessed on October 6, 2019 (French).
  4. ↑ Miłosz Magin. Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina, accessed October 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Magin, Miłosz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Magin, Milosz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-French pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Łódź
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1999
Place of death Bora Bora