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Polish composer and pianist (b. 19 September 1938), who studied composition and piano at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He is known as a composer of unistic music, based on the theory of unistic art adopted from the painting of Wladyslaw Strzeminski (1893-1952). Unistic music lacks contrasts, tension and climaxes in the traditional sense and its form is as homogenous as possible. He is an author of five operas, several instrumental concertos, symphonic and chamber works. Together with architects he also composed spatial music.
Zygmunt Krauze won the First Prize of the Gaudeamus International Interpreters Award in Holland in 1966. Since then he has continued his career as a pianist performing mostly 20th century music. In 1967 he founded The Warsaw Music Workshop ensemble, which commissioned works from over 100 composers. He served as its artistic director and pianist for over 20 years.
Since 1965 he has given seminars as well as master classes of composition and contemporary music performance, including prestigious centers of new music like: Darmstadt, Basle, Stockholm, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Jerusalem and Hong Kong. In 1982 he served as a visiting professor at Yale University. In 1996 he was nominated as an Eminent Corresponding Professor at Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea. From 2002 he is professor of composition at the Music Academy in Lodz, Poland, and from 2006 at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw
Between 1973-74 he was an artist in residence in Berlin at the invitation of DAAD (Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst). In 1982 he was invited by Pierre Boulez to become a musical advisor to IRCAM in Paris.[1] Apart from that he was a member of the repertoire committee of the Warsaw Autumn festival for ten years and in 1987-90 served as president of the International Society for Contemporary Music. He also served as president of the Witold Lutoslawski Society and for 25 years president or vice president of the Polish Section of the ISCM.
Among his honours and awards are: Silver Cross of Merit of Poland (1975), the Medal of Distinction from Jeunesses Musicales in Poland (1979) and the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France (1984). In addition he received the Prize of the Ministry of Culture in Poland 1989 and 2005. In 1999 he became an honorary member of ISCM. In 2004 he received the Golden Cross of Merit and in 2005 the UNESCO Heritage of the Humanity Award in Valparaiso, Chile. In 2008 he was appointed by the President of the French Republic Officer dans l'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur. In 2010, he was appointed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and Heritage gold medal "Gloria Artis". In 2011 he became honorary member of the Polish Composers Union (ZKP).
Zygmunt Krauze's works have been recorded on such labels as: Muza, Dux, ORF, Nonesuch, Thesis, Musical Observations (CP2), Collins Classics, Recommended Records and EMI.
The Letters (2010) For four pianos and orchestra / for two pianos, four pianists and orchestra
Hymn for Tolerance (2007) For orchestra
Adieu (2001) For upright piano and orchestra
Emille Bell (2000) For String Orchestra
Serenade (1998) For orchestra
Piano Concerto No. 2 (1996) For piano and orchestra
Rhapsod (1995) For string orchestra
Terra incognita (1994) For 10 strings and piano
Marcia (1991) For orchestra
Symphonie parisienne (1986) For orchestra
Blanc-rouge / Paysage d'un pays (1985) For two orchestral masses: wind orchestras, mandolin orchestra, accordion orchestra and 6 percussions (300 musicians)
Arabesque (1983) For piano (with amplification) and chamber orchestra
Piece for Orchestra No. 3 (1982)
Tableau vivant (1982) For chamber orchestra
Violin Concerto (1980) For violin and orchestra
Suite de dances et de chansons (1977) For harpsichord and orchestra
Piano Concerto No. 1 (1976) For piano and orchestra
Fete galante et pastorale (1975 concert version of spatial work) For 4 soloists playing on folk instruments (4 hurdy-gurdies, 4 bagpipes, 4 folk violins, 4 fifes) and orchestra
Aus aller Welt Stammende (1973) For 10 strings (5 violins, 3 violas, 2 cellos)
Folk Music (1972) For Orchestra
Voices (1972) For 15 optional instruments
Piece for Orchestra No. 2 (1970)
Piece for Orchestra No. 1 (1969)
Fields and Hills - silence (2009)
Pour El (2008) For harpsichord
Voices for Ljubljana (2007) For seven instruments: viola, cello, flute, clarinet, trombone, piano and percussion
Fanfare (2007) For four trumpets
Ode (2004) For flute, ocarina, 2 trumpets in C, guitar and 3 tom-toms
Divertissement Silesienne (1998) For string quartet
Pastorale (1995) For flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, bassoon
P - 53 (1994) For any player(s)
Piano Quintet (1993) For string quartet and piano
For Alfred Schlee with admiration (1991) For string quartet
The Underground River (1987) Concert version for 7 players (clarinet, trombone, percussion, guitar, piano, accordion, cello) and 7 tapes
Je prefere qu'il chante (1985) For bassoon
Quatuor pour la naissance (1984) For clarinet, violin, cello and piano
String Quartet No. 3 (1982)
Commencement (1982) For harpsichord solo
Dyptychos (1981) For organ
Automatophone (1976) Concert version for 3 or more mandolins, 3 or more guitars, 3 or more music boxes
Soundscape (1975) For 4 soloists playing 4 zithers, 4 melodicas, 8 recorders, 8 sheep bells, 8 glasses, 4 mouth harmonicas; with amplification and tape
Idyll (1974) For 4 soloists playing folk instruments (4 hurdy-gurdies, 4 bag pipes, 4 folk violins, 4 fifes, 16 bells) and tape
Song (1974) For 4 - 6 optional melodic instruments
One Piano Eight Hands (1973) For 4 musicians playing one upright piano out of tune
String Quartet No. 2 (1970)
Polychromy (1968)
For clarinet, trombone, piano and cello
String Quartet No. 1 (1965)
Prime numbers (1961) For two violins
Wind Trio (1958) For oboe, clarinet and bassoon
La naissance et le deroulement d'un reve (2005)
Refrain (1993)
Blue Jay Way (1990)
La chanson du mal-aimé (1990)
Nightmare Tango (1987)
From Keyboard to Score (1987)
Ballade (1978)
Music Box Waltz (1977)
Gloves Music (1972)
Stone Music (1972)
Fallingwater (1971)
Esquisse (1967)
Triptych (1964)
Five Unitary Piano Pieces (1963)
Ohne Kontraste (1960)
Monody and fugue (1959)
Four dances (1959)
Two inventions (1958)
Seven interludes (1958)
Prelude, intermezzo, postlude (1958)
Five Piano Pieces (1958)
Three etudes (1958)
Theme with variations (1958)
Six folk melodies (1958)
Sonatina (1958)
Three Preludes (1956)
Aria (2007) Unlimited duration 21 sound sources (63 loudspeakers) in an exhibition hall
The Underground River (1987) Collaboration with Jan Muniak and Wieslaw Nowak - architects For 7 tapes
Fête galante et pastorale (1974) First version: Spatial composition for 6 groups of instruments and 13 tapes
Fête galante et pastorale (1984) Second version: Spatial composition for 13 group of instruments, 5 voices and 13 tapes
Automatophone (1974) Spatial Composition for 15 music boxes and 15 plucked instruments with amplification
Spatial Composition No. 2 (1970) Collaboration with Teresa Kelm - architect For 2 tapes
Spatial Composition No. 1 (1968) Collaboration with Teresa Kelm - architect and Henryk Morel - sculptor For 6 tapes