Name Ludomir Rozycki | Role Composer | |
Died January 1, 1953, Katowice, Poland Education Fryderyk Chopin University of Music | ||
Orchestral Works of Ludomir Rozycki (1883-1953)
Ludomir Rozycki ([luˈdomir ruˈʐit͡skʲi]; 18 September 1883 Warsaw – 1 January 1953 Katowice) was a Polish composer and conductor. He was, with Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, Karol Szymanowski and Grzegorz Fitelberg, a member of the group of composers known as Young Poland, the intention of which was to invigorate the musical culture of their generation in their mother country.
He was a son of a professor at the Warsaw Conservatory, where he studied piano and composition. He completed his studies with distinction, and then continued his studies in Berlin at the Academy of Music under Engelbert Humperdinck. He began his musical career as a conductor of opera and professor of piano in Lwow in 1907. It was while in Lwow that he began to compose. Subsequently he moved to Warsaw where he composed many more works in a number of different genres.
His ballet Pan Twardowski was the first Polish large-scale ballet to be performed abroad, being seen in Copenhagen, Prague, Brno, Zagreb, Belgrade and Vienna, and being performed over 800 times in Warsaw. His eight operas included Casanova and Eros i Psyche (Eros and Psyche, to the libretto of Jerzy Zulawski), the latter having its world premiere in Wroclaw in 1917.
A significant number of his solo piano pieces have been recorded on CD by Valentina Seferinova, and issued on the Polish Acte Prealable label (catalogue reference AP 0263) as world premiere recordings.