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Ludomir Różycki - Tales of a Clock op. 26 (Seferinova)

Ludomir Różycki - Contes d'une Horloge Alt. Tales From the Horlogue Composed in 1905 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. He had applied to teach at the Oslo Conservatory, but was rejected. It worked out for the best because 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. Tales of a Clock / Tales From the Horlogue These pieces are somewhat uncharacteristic for Różycki. Różycki has always found himself somewhere between Strauss, the French Impressionists, Wagner, and Brahms, so the fact that these pieces draw a clear French influence is no surprise (Though the second piece sounds a lot like Noskowski at times). What is surprising is that Różycki never unleashes any of his dark specters to haunt his little tales (though he teases the listener a bit in the second piece). Unbroken, dreamlike phrases stream through the set without sudden, loud crashes from the lower registers, eerie chromaticism, or pensive melancholy.