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Moniuszko - Opera Songs for Piano | NIFC (National Institute Frederick Chopin) NIFCCD113

Moniuszko - Opera Songs for Piano

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Label: NIFC (National Institute Frederick Chopin)

Cat No: NIFCCD113

Barcode: 5906395034369

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 1st November 2019

Contents

About

A traveller using Stanisław Moniuszko Central Train Station in Warsaw might wonder who he was ... a political hero? A famous scientist? Or why not a musician? Besides its Chopin Airport (like Budapest with its Liszt Airport and Salzburg with its Mozart Airport), Warsaw honours the memory of the great Stanisław Moniuszko (1819-1872).

Almost unknown outside Poland, this extraordinary composer, pianist and organist wrote mainly operas, operettas, masses and about 360 Lieder, but also a few piano pieces and two string quartets, not to mention a treatise on harmony.

“Although his piano output is small in quantity, the quality of each piece all of them exquisite miniatures is wonderful: we are dealing here with pure gems. Like many composers, Moniuszko was of course influenced by others, such as Carl Maria von Weber, Robert Schumann, Mendelssohn etc, however, he found his own language.

“With regard to the various transcriptions and fantasies on Lieder and operas by several composers presented here, it is interesting to note that Moniuszko himself transcribed two mazurkas from his operas
The Haunted Manor and Halka. Personally, I am convinced that the music of Moniuszko, especially some pieces such as the ‘Kozak’, the dumkas and the Nocturne ...if played as encores worldwide, could become international hits and help to spread the name of this great Polish genius.”
– Cyprien Katsaris

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