Mieczysław Karłowicz (11 December 1876 – 8 February 1909) was a Polish composer and conductor. He was born in Vishneva (present-day Belarus), and his father Jan was a Polish historian and musician. As a child he studied the violin, for which instrument he later wrote his only concerto.
Karłowicz studied at Warsaw with Prof. Noskowski, Piotr Maszyski, and Gustaw Roguski. He later studied in Berlin with Heinrich Urban. From 1906 to 1907 he studied...
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Mieczysław Karłowicz (11 December 1876 – 8 February 1909) was a Polish composer and conductor. He was born in Vishneva (present-day Belarus), and his father Jan was a Polish historian and musician. As a child he studied the violin, for which instrument he later wrote his only concerto.
Karłowicz studied at Warsaw with Prof. Noskowski, Piotr Maszyski, and Gustaw Roguski. He later studied in Berlin with Heinrich Urban. From 1906 to 1907 he studied conducting with Arthur Nikisch. His music is of a late-romantic/fin-de-siècle character, showing some affinity with Richard Strauss, Albéric Magnard and Alexander Scriabin.
Karłowicz wrote a symphony (Revival), a violin concerto (in A major, opus 8) and his output also contains several tone poems, including Eternal Songs, Stanislaw and Anna Oswiecimowie and The Returning Waves. He also wrote a number of songs for voice and piano, setting words by Kazimierz Tetmajer, Adam Asnyk, and others. Much of the rest of his small output was lost during...
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