Mieczysław Surzyński

Mieczysław Surzyński (born December 22, 1866 in Środa Wielkopolska , † September 11, 1924 in Warsaw ) was a Polish organist and composer.

Surzyński came from a family of musicians; his father, like three of his brothers, was an organist. From 1885 to 1887 he studied organ with Otto Dienel and composition with Ludwig Bussler and Robert Radecke at the Berlin Conservatory . He continued his training in Leipzig with Paul Homeyer and Salomon Jadassohn and finally studied church music in Regensburg.

He then settled her in Poznan , where he taught and worked as artistic director of the Musical Society and organist at the cathedral . In 1891 he became the director of the church choir in Liepāja , Latvia , and from 1893 to 1900 he was the choir director at the Cathedral of Saint Petersburg. Until 1904 he was choirmaster at the cathedral and at the seminary in Saratov and professor at the Imperial Music School .

After a year in Kiev, he moved to Warsaw in 1904, where he was choir conductor of the Warsaw Philharmonic from 1906 to 1909 . From 1906 until his death he was professor of organ, after Zygmunt Noskowski's death in 1909 , he was also professor of counterpoint at the Warsaw Academy of Music . He was also organist at St. John's Cathedral from 1909 . As a composer, he mainly emerged with romantic organ works, the best known of which are the improvisations on Święty Boże and his organ concerto, which was long thought to be lost.

literature

• Krystyna Winowicz:  Surzyński, Mieczysław. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 16 (Strata - Villoteau). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1136-5 , Sp. 300 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

Web links

• Mieczysław Surzyński on Culture.pl
• in Organ Society Catalog ( Memento from February 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )