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Ludomir Różycki - 2 Preludes and 2 Nocturnes Op. 3 (Seferinova)

Ludomir Różycki - Dwa preludia i dwa nokturny Composed in 1904 Pianist - Valentina Seferinova 0:00 - I. Prelude: Moderato 1:27 - II. Prelude: Con moto 2:50 - III. Nocturne: Andante 4:35 - IV. Nocturne: Andante doloroso 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. Two Preludes and Two Nocturnes These pieces came in Różycki's first big wave of piano writing, but they still exhibit all of the standard characteristics of Różycki's compositional output. When listening however, one can hear more of Różycki's unique voice in the nocturnes than in the preludes. In the preludes, the big dark spots that wedge themselves between lighter portions are absent, but they feature prominently in the nocturnes. Of course, all of the pieces feature Różycki's uniquely unstable harmonic language that feature sudden key changes with or without standard modulation, tonal ambiguity, chromaticism, 7th chords, synthetic chords, and an abundance of purposeful false relations.