Władysław Tarnowski

Count Władysław Tarnowski (June 4, 1836, Wróblewice, administrative district of Drohobycz, in the modern day Ukraine – April 19, 1878, near San Francisco while on a steamer from Japan; also known by the literary pseudonym Ernest Buława (Ernest Mace)) was a pianist, composer, poet, dramatist, and translator.

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Biography

He was the son of Count Walerian Tarnowski. Recognized as talented at an early age, he was introduced to famed composer Frederic Chopin. He studied in Lvov and Cracow, at D. Auber in the Paris conservatory, with a break during the time of the January Uprising of 1863-1864, during which he wrote the song "Jak to na wojence ładnie" which remains popular to the modern day, in various alterations. He gave concerns in Wroclaw in 1860 and 1875, Lvov in 1875, Vienna, Venice and Firence in 1872, Paris 1873, and traveled widely.

Compositions

Intimate

Piano

Songs

Solo:

With piano accompaniment:

Stage

The patron of the art, poems, the articles, reviews of literary works(ex. in „Ruch literacki” and „Tygodnik ilustrowany”).

Literary works

Poetry

Dramas

Publicist

Documentary

Translations

External links

Free scores by Władysław Tarnowski at the International Music Score Library Project

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