Wladyslaw Tarnowski

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Władysław Tarnowski , engraving by Aleksander Tadeusz Regulski after a portrait by Franciszek Tegazzo , 1870s

Władysław Tarnowski (born July 4, 1836 on the Wróblewice estate near Drohobych , today Ukraine , † April 19, 1878 near San Francisco , United States ) was a Polish composer , pianist , writer and translator . He was also known under the pseudonym Ernest Buława .

Life

Władysław Tarnowski was born the son of the Polish-Austrian Count Walerian Tarnowski (1811–1861) and Countess Ernestyna Tarnowska (1808–1840) in the Austrian crown land Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria . Władysław was the brother of the landscape painter Stanisław . His mother died when he was four years old. His musical talent was evident at a young age. His father arranged for him to be introduced to Frédéric Chopin . Władysław Tarnowski first attended grammar school in Lemberg , then in Cracow . But he could not yet fully turn to music. Because the father insisted that his son - before an existence as an artist - at least had to create the basis for a later career in the Imperial and Royal civil service. At the behest of his father, he studied law and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow after graduating from high school . In 1857 he finished his studies and was free to go to the Paris Conservatory , where he studied with Daniel Auber . When the January uprising broke out in 1864, he hurried home and wrote the song Jak to na wojence ładnie (meaning: How nice the war is - an ironic title), which is still sung in Poland today as an expression of the longing for national freedom. After all hopes had been dashed and the Imperial Russian Army had put down the uprising, Tarnowski continued his studies at the Leipzig Conservatory (with Ernst Friedrich Richter and Ignaz Moscheles ) and with Franz Liszt .

Tarnowski gave piano concerts that were celebrated by music critics in the 1860s and early 1870s (including in Breslau, Lemberg, Vienna, Venice, Florence and Paris). In his mastery as a soloist, contemporaries put him on a par with Anton Grigorjewitsch Rubinstein and Hans von Bülow . From the late 1860s Tarnowski turned more and more to composing. His songs and his chamber music compositions were performed mainly in salons and - especially in Austria-Hungary and Germany - as house music . That is why it was all Austrian and German music publishers who published his works.

Władysław Tarnowski made numerous and long trips, a. a. to the Orient . He died - only 41 years old - of a heart attack while traveling to the United States.

Works (selection)

Piano pieces

Ave Maria
Andantino pensieroso

Chants

  • Two chants with the accompaniment of the pianoforte. Dedicated to Melanie Foglar-Deinhardstein . Text by Ludwig Foglár . (Vienna no year, Verlag V. Kratochwill):
    • You book with seven seals .
You book with seven seals - music instead of voice
    • Whether you're resting now .
Whether you rest now - music instead of voice
  • Neig, oh beautiful bud song by Mirza Schaffy, composed for a singing voice with accompaniment of the pianoforte. Dedicated to Miss L. Ramann . (Vienna undated, Verlag J. Gutmann).
Neig o schone bud - music instead of voice
  • Do you know the roses . Song for a singing voice with accompaniment of the pianoforte, composed and composed and dedicated to his friend Professor Angelo von Gubernatis . (Vienna undated, Verlag J. Gutmann).
Do you know the roses - music instead of voice
I sank crying into soft slumber - music instead of voice
The little bell sounds quietly through fields - accompaniment

Stage plays

  • Karlińscy (Drama with Music, 1874).
  • Achmed or the pilgrim of love (opera, ~ 1875).
Libretto Achmed or the Pilgrim of Love - manuscript

Literary works

  • Szkice Helveckie i Talia , Paul Rhode, Leipzig, 1868; German translation by Albert Weiss: Swiss sketches .

literature

  • Franz Stieger: Opera Lexicon. Part II: Composers , Volume 3: N-Z . Hans Schneider , Tutzing 1978. ISBN 3-7952-0259-0 . P. 1097.
  • Franz Stieger: Opera Lexicon. Part III: Librettists , Volume 3: Q-Z . Hans Schneider, Tutzing 1981. ISBN 3-7952-0319-8 . P. 936.
  • Adolf Hofmeister (ed.): Handbook of musical literature, or directory of the in the German Empire, in the countries of the German-speaking area as well as the music that is important for distribution in the German Empire and published abroad, including musical writings, images and plastic representations with advertisements The publishers and prices , vol. 6 (= supplement to volume 3): 1860–1867 . Verlag Adolf and Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig 1868, p. 260.
  • Entry Tarnowski, Ladislas . In: Franz Pazdírek (ed.): Universal handbook of music literature of all times and peoples as a reference work and source of study for world music literature , Vol. 30: Swain – Troppmann . Publisher of the "Universal-Handbuch der Musikliteratur", Vienna 1909, pp. 35–36.
  • Stanley Sadie (ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . Vol. 25: Taiwan to Twelwe Apostles . Macmillan, London 2001. ISBN 0-333-60800-3 . Pp. 103-104.
  • Pieśni niemieckie Władysława Tarnowskiego , MT, OSDW AZYMUT Sp.z oo, Warsaw-Lodz, 2017.
  • Ewa Róża Janion: Legends of Suli in Poland: some remarks on Władysław Tarnowski . In: Ewa Róża Janion: Imaging Suli: Interactions between Philhellenic Ideas and Greek Identity Discourse (dissertation). Peter Lang GmbH, Frankfurt 2015, pp. 46–49.

Web links

Commons : books by Władysław Tarnowski  - a collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Władysław Tarnowski  - sources and full texts
  • "Neue Zeitschrift für Music.", Leipzig - Reviews of the pieces of music and their mention:
    • Volume 68 , No. 42, October 11, 1872, p. 414: Cypressen (mention)
    • Volume 69 , No. 4, January 17, 1873, p. 32: Three Mazurkas (mention)
    • Volume 70 , No. 9, February 27, 1874, pp. 89a – 89b: Do you know the roses , Neig, o beautiful bud , You book with seven seals , Whether you are now resting , and No. 33, August 14, 1874, P. 328–329: Quartuor for two violins, viola and violoncello , Fantasy quasi sonata , Sonate pour piano , Nocturne pour piano , Polonaise , Etude VII by Chopin, transcrite pour violoncello , song "Still sounds the little bell through fields" (reviews)
    • Volume 71 , No. 40, October 1, 1875, pp. 386-388: Ladislaus Tarnowski, Joanna Gray. Symphonic sound painting to the tragedy of the same name (review).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Agaton Giller : O Władysławie hr. Tarnowskim . In: Ruch Literacki (Lwow), Jg. 1878, No. 21-25, pp. 331f., 348f., 362f., 380f. and 395f. (Polish).
  2. ^ Franz Stieger: Opernlexikon. Part II: Composers , Volume 3: N-Z . Hans Schneider, Tutzing 1978. p. 1097.
  3. ^ Stanley Sadie (ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . Vol. 25: Taiwan to Twelwe Apostles . Macmillan, London 2001. pp. 103-104.
  4. ^ IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
  5. ↑ Austrian National Library, MS4346-4 °. 43.2 Mus.
  6. ↑ Austrian National Library, MS4346-4 °. 43.4 Mus.
  7. ↑ Austrian National Library, MS4346-4 °. 43.3 Mus.
  8. ↑ a b Adolf Hofmeister (ed.): Handbook of musical literature , Vol. 6 (= supplement to Volume 3): 1860–1867 . Verlag Adolf and Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig 1868, p. 260.
  9. ↑ Andantino pensieroso udostępnione jest w CBN Polona.
  10. ↑ Austrian National Library, MS4339-4 °. 17.25 Mus.
  11. ↑ Austrian National Library, MS4339-4 °. 17.26 Mus.
  12. ↑ Austrian National Library, MS4339-4 °. 17.27 Mus.
  13. ↑ Austrian National Library, OA.2289. Mus.
  14. ^ Hermann Zopff : Works for orchestra (collective review), therein a. a .: Ladislaus Tarnowski, Joanna Gray. Symphonic sound painting for the tragedy of the same name . In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Vol. 71 (1875), No. 39 of September 24, 1875, pp. 377-378.
personal data
SURNAME Tarnowski, Wladyslaw
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buława, Ernest (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish composer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Well Wróblewice near Drohobytsch , today Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1878
Place of death San Francisco , United States