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Ludomir Różycki - Balladyna: A Poem for Piano Op. 25 (Seferinova)

Ludomir Różycki - Balladyna: Poemat na fortepian Composed in 1909 Pianist - Valentina Seferinova Biography Ludomir Różycki (1883 - 1953) was born to a musical family. His father was a professor at the Warsaw Conservatory, and his mother was musically talented. Naturally, Różycki would study at the Warsaw Conservatory with Aleksander Michałowski who taught piano technique, Gustaw Rogulski and Michał Biernacki who taught theory, and with Zygmunt Noskowski who taught composition. He graduated the conservatory in 1904 with high honors. He later went on to study with Engelbert Humperdinck at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. After graduating from the Warsaw Conservatory, Różycki's compositional career took off. His symphonic scherzo "Stańczyk" premiered in 1904 at the Warsaw Philharmonic, conducted at the time by Emil Młynarski. In 1905, he, along with Karol Szymanowski, Grzegorz Fitelberg, and Apolinary Szeluto, founded the "Publishing Company of Young Polish Composers" (Spółkę Nakładową Młodych Kompozytorów Polskich). The group was primarily concerned with composing and promoting new Polish music abroad. In 1907, he moved to Lviv (Lwów) where he taught piano at the Galicia Music Society and conducted for the opera. In 1912, just a few years later, he won an award for his symphonic poem "King Cophetua" (Król Kofetua) in a compositional competition organized for the 10th anniversary of the Warsaw Philharmonic. He moved to Berlin the same year and used Berlin as a base from which to go on trips to Switzerland, Italy, and France. In 1918, he settled in Warsaw where he would remain for most of his life. For ten years after his return, he focused on composition and then became a professor at what is now the Frederic Chopin University of Music. At the same time, he led a renewal of organizational and publishing activity for the publishing company. During the Nazi occupation, the cultural life of Poland was carried out in underground movements. The musical life was no different. Różycki contributed as a pianist and accompanist in this underground movement. After the Warsaw Uprising, most of Warsaw was reduced to ashes, along with many of Różycki's works. After the destruction of Warsaw, he took shelter in Kraków and settled in Katowice. He spent the rest of his life reconstructing the pieces that had been destroyed. Balladyna - Like his other poem for piano, Laguna, this work features the same dreamy, impressionistic style but with more intense darkness. Ludomir Różycki was obviously well in tune with the cultural consciousness in Poland in particular and in Europe as a whole. References to works of literature, art, travels, and other compositions are richly embedded in the whole of his oeuvre. In particular, Różycki had a fascination with the work of Juliusz Słowacki, one of the so-called "Three Bards" of Polish romantic literature. Słowacki wrote after the failed November Uprising of 1830-31, seeing and feeling all of what the Polish nation was feeling, capturing it and criticizing it through literature. Balladyna as a drama, written by Słowacki, attracted operatic adaptations by both Władysław Żeleński and Henryk Jarecki. It is a work that follows a power-grabbing, murderous woman who leaves a trail of bodies in her pursuit of the crown. Even as queen, she continues to relentlessly kill those around her. Eventually, God Himself strikes her down. Of course, there is something of a psalmic texture in the evil queen who murders and is struck down by God as revenge for the blood of innocents.