Oskar Kolberg

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Oskar Kolberg
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Oskar Kolberg (Henryk Oskar Kolberg, born February 22, 1814 in Przysucha , † June 3, 1890 in Cracow ) was a Polish ethnographer, folk song collector and composer . He is considered to be the founder of Polish ethnography .

Life

He was the son of Julius Kolberg , a cartographer who immigrated from Prussia in 1798 and a professor at Warsaw University, and Karolina Fryderyka Mercoeur, a French woman born in Warsaw. The young Oskar attended the Warsaw Lyceum from 1823 to 1830, whose director was Samuel Linde , at the same time he studied music with the pianist and composer Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński from 1832 to 1836 . From 1835 to 1837 he continued his musical studies in Berlin with Christian Friedrich Johann Girschner and Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen . During this time - 1835 - he corresponded with Robert Schumann and sent him several unprinted works that are now lost.

In 1853 his opera The Shepherd King was premiered.

Back in Warsaw he gave music lessons, became an accountant and from 1845–1857 an official at the Warsaw – Vienna Railway Directorate. He also worked as a bank clerk and railroad clerk. During this time he collected several hundred folk songs from the Mazovia region, which he initially published in the form of song books. Thanks to a grant from the Mianowski Fund, he published a work in five volumes on the folk music of Mazovia .

In 1871 he moved from Warsaw to Mogilany near Cracow, later to Modlnica , and in 1884 to Cracow . In 1873 he was elected a member of the Polish Academy of Skills in Cracow ( Polska Akademia Umiejętności ).

Works

  • 1857: Pieśni Ludu Polskiego (Songs of the Polish People), collection of 400 Polish folk songs
  • 1857–1890: Lud. Jego zwyczaje, sposób życia, mowa, podania, przysłowia, obrzędy, gusła, zabawy, pieśni, muzyka i tańce (The people, their customs, way of life, language, folk tales, proverbs, rituals, magic, games, songs, music and dances) , 33 volumes - three more volumes from his estate were published posthumously

literature

  • Ludwik Bielawski: Kolberg, (Henryk) Oskar. In: Grove Music Online , 2001
  • Ludwik Bielawski: Kolberg, (Henryk) Oskar. In: MGG Online , November 2016 ( Music in the past and present , 2003)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with correspondents in Berlin 1832 to 1883 , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz , Eva Katharina Klein and Thomas Synofzik (= Schumann-Briefedition , Series II, Volume 17), Cologne: Dohr 2015, pp. 323–327, ISBN 978-3-86846-028-5 .