Seweryn Barbag

Seweryn Eugeniusz Barbag (born September 4, 1891 in Przemyśl , † September 26, 1944 in Otwock ) was a Polish composer , musicologist and teacher .

Barbag studied musicology with Guido Adler and composition with Ludomir Różycki , Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński and Joseph Marx at the University of Vienna . He also took piano lessons from Melcer-Szczawiński and Marx. Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War , he took over the chair for music theory and history at the Lemberg Conservatory. His students include Stanisław Skrowaczewski , Stanisław Wisłocki and Roman Haubenstock-Ramati .

All of Barbag's compositions, which only existed in manuscripts, have been lost, as has his dissertation The Songs of Robert Franz and the music-theoretical work Harmonia intertonalna . His Studium o pieśniach Chopina was the first work on the songs of Fryderyk Chopin to appear in Poland . His main work is the Systematykę muzykologii , published in 1927 , with which he founded systematic musicology in Poland, following on from his teacher Adler and Hugo Riemann's Grundriß der Musikwissenschaft . Nothing is known about his living conditions after 1939 or the circumstances of his death.

Compositions

• Vox humana , symphonic poem
• Visions grotesques for orchestra
• Symphonia terrestris for orchestra
• Sekstet smyczkowy
• Kosmos for violin and piano
• Sonata for violin and piano
• Sonata for violin solo
• Sonata for cello and piano
• Panergon for piano
• Sonata for piano
• Trois Poèmes for piano
• Jeunesse et nature for piano
• Piano concerts

source

• Michał Bristiger: "Pamięć o Sewerynie Barbagu"