Feliks Nowowiejski
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Feliks Nowowiejski (Barczewo, Warmia, February 7, 1877 - January 18, 1946, Poznań, Poland) was a Polish composer, conductor and music teacher.
His best-known compositions include:
- the march, Pod sztandarem pokoju (Under the Banner of Peace, 1898, awarded a prize in London).
- the oratorio, Powrót syna marnotrawnego (The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1902, awarded the Giacomo Meyerbeer Prize).
- the overture, Swaty polskie (Polish Courtship, 1903, awarded the Ludwig van Beethoven Prize).
- the oratorio, Zanaleziene Świętego Krzyża (The Discovery of the Holy Cross, with the famous Pace Domine, 1906).
- the oratorio, Quo vadis (1907).
- music for Rota (1910).
- the opera, Emigranci (The Emigrants, 1917).
- the opera, Legenda Bałtyku (The Legend of the Baltic, 1924).