Mieczysław Drobner

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Mieczysław Drobner (between 1930 and 1935)

Mieczysław Drobner (born November 3, 1912 in Kraków , † March 17, 1986 in Łódź ) was a Polish composer , conductor , musicologist and music teacher .

Mieczysław Drobner was the son of the socialist politician Bolesław Drobner .

Drobner studied composition with Bolesław Wallek-Walewski and conducting with Zbigniew Dymmek at the Conservatory of the Music Society in Kraków until 1933 . He continued his education with Joseph Marx in Vienna from 1933-35 and finally studied musicology with Zdzisław Jachimecki at the Jagiellonian University until 1937 .

From 1931 to 1939 he was a conductor at the Cracow Opera, from 1944 to 1946 director of the music department in the Ministry of Culture and Art. From 1946 to 1954 he taught at the State Conservatory of Music in Łódź , where he was Vice-Rector from 1949 and Rector from 1954. During this time he also headed the music department of the Łódź radio station and was co-founder of the radio orchestra led by Henryk Debich .

With Władysław Raczkowski and Kazimierz Sikorski , he founded the Society of Friends of the Opera in 1954, which founded the Łódź Opera. Until 1956 he was their first artistic director. From 1958 to 1961 he was director of the Municipal Music Theater in Krakow, and from 1958 to 1958 he taught at the Cracow State Music Academy , from 1971 as a professor. From 1969 to 1972 he was dean of the faculty for theory, composition and conducting at the Jagiellonian University, from 1961 he headed the department of music acoustics. With Stanislaw Golchowski he wrote the books Akustyka muzyczna (Kraków 1935) and Instrumentoznawstwo i akustyka (Kraków 1960).

Drobner has received many awards, including the Silver and Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland (1945 and 1952), the Knight's and Officer's Cross of the Polonia Restituta Order (1956 and 1964) and the Second Degree Minister's Prize for Culture and Art ( 1969).

Works

  • Sonata na fortepian nr 1 (1931)
  • Concert fortepianowy (1932)
  • Dies irae , cantata for solo voices, choir and orchestra (1933)
  • Wariacje for piano solo (1933)
  • Sonata na fortepian nr 2 (1933)
  • Bajka for four-part male choir a cappella (1934)
  • Bunt szyn for four-part male choir a cappella (1936)
  • Dwie kołysanki for soprano and piano (1942)
  • Kołysanka czasu niespokojnego for soprano and piano (1942)
  • Wspomnienia o kobietach-żołnierzach , song cycle based on words by Halina Bielakowa (1942)
  • Marcia di bravura for piano solo (1943)
  • Rapsodia for violin and piano (1943)
  • Śpiewający zwierzyniec , children's songs (1947)
  • Rozśpiewany ogródek , children's songs (1947)
  • Farfurka Królowej Bony , musical performance for young people (1948)
  • Ulica mistrzów zegarmistrzów for piano solo (1952)
  • Kołysanka czasu spokojnego for soprano and piano (1952)
  • Divertimento for piano solo (1953)
  • Concertino for piano and symphony orchestra (1960)
  • Jak trudno być królową , Vaudeville in three acts for young people (1968)
  • Passacaglia for piano solo (1968)
  • Etiuda for six-part mixed choir a cappella (1969)
  • Rondo for women's or boys' choir a cappella (1969)
  • Concertino per la schola musicale (1973)
  • Smuga cienia for soprano or tenor and piano (1973)
  • Pokój! for male choir a cappella (1973)
  • Pionierom for male choir a cappella (1973)
  • O radości for male choir a cappella (1973)
  • Zwierzęta i zwierzątka , Children's pieces for piano four hands (1973)
  • Dziura w moście , six children's songs (1975)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Encyklopedia Krakowa: Drobner Bolesław , accessed October 7, 2019 (Polish).

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