Dear Grzegorz,
Thank you so much for that hint! Apart from Chopin, I am little aware
of Polish music, and so are probably other people. On the website link
you provided, also Maria Szymanowska is mentioned who must have been
not only a touching and brilliant piano player but also a fantastic
composer. I only have known so far that Goethe adored her, and that
part of his "Marienbader Elegie" and other poems are an answer to her
and her music. But I never heard any piece of music and will now,
inspired by you, dive a little into it - and Josef Koffler. Thanks
again.
Franz
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Von: [email protected] im Auftrag von Grzegorz Joachimiak
Gesendet: Do 21/10/2010 23:38
An: Stuart Walsh
Cc: Lute Net
Betreff: [LUTE] Odp: a little Polish folk song
Hi Stuart,
I am not a specialist in modern music, but I know fantastic book about
Josef Koffler:
Maciej Golab *Jozef Koffler: Compositional Style and Source Documents*,
[Translated by Maksymilian Kapelanski, Linda Schubert and Marek
Zebrowski]. With a foreword by Antony Polonsky and a CD of examples
edited by Mateusz Gol/ab. Polish Music History Series, Vol. 8, Los
Angeles 2004, pp. 318.
look at:
[1]http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/pmhsbooks/historyser.html#no8
Have fun
Grzegorz
Dnia 21-10-2010 o godz. 23:27 Stuart Walsh napisal/(a):
> Just a bit of serendipity. I came across a website with a little folk
> song setting by Josef Koffler (1920s), who, it seems, went on to
become
> a modernist composer. I suppose the melody is a real folk song, but I
> really don't know. And the accompaniment is a very simple ostinato, a
> whole-tone fragment. The picture is from Google images with the
entry
> 'Poland 1920s' but ot could be anyone from anywhere. Or maybe it's a
> really famous image?
>
> [2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vym0zWq4Ms4
>
>
> Stuart
>
>
>
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