Władysław Tarnowski

Władysław Tarnowski in an Arab headdress, (engraved by Aleksander Tadeusz Regulski after a portrait by Franciszek Tegazzo, 1870s).

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.

Biography

He was the son of Count Walerian Tarnowski. Recognized as talented at an early age, he was introduced to famed composer Frédéric 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

• String quartet in D major
• Fantasia quasi una sonata (on violins and piano)
• Souvenir d'un ange (on violins and piano) (Vienna about 1876, publ. V. Kratochwill)

Piano

• 3 Mazurkas (3 Mazurkas, Vienna about 1870, publ. Bösendorfer)
• 2 pieces : Chart sans paroles, Valse - poeme(both Leipzig about 1870, publ. Ch. F Kahut)
• Impromptu "L'adieu de l'artiste” (Vienna about 1870, publ. J. Gutmann)
• Sonata and son ami Zawadzki (Vienna okolo 1875, publ. V. Kratochwill)
• Grande polonaise quasi rhapsodies symphonique (Vienna about 1875, publ. J. Gutmann)
• Extases au Bosphor, fantasie rhapsodies sur les melodies orientales op. 10 (Leipzig okolo 1875, publ. Forberg)
• Nocturne dédié à sa soeur Marie (Viena, n.d.)

Songs

Solo:

• Uhlans march, called also Soldiers song, March soldier's Langiewicza with initial words: "A kto chce rozkoszy użyć”<And who wants pleasure to use>, and today more well-known with words "Jak to na wojence ładnie” <How this on war nicely> (first publications: „Kieszonkowy słowniczek polski z melodiami” Poznan 1889, publ. J. Leitgebera and " War song” Lwow 1908, publ. B. Połoniecki, suitably).

With piano accompaniment:

• Cypryssen 5 characterische Gesänge (Vienna 1870, publ. Bösendorfera)
• Neig, o Schöne Knospe
• Du bang myth Siegen Siegeln
• Ob. Du Nun ruhst. (both Vienna about 1870, publ.. V. Kratochwill)
• Zwei Gresänhe:
• Still klingt das Glöcklein durch Felder (Vienna about 1875, publ. J. Gutmann)

Stage

• Achmed the oder the Pilger the Liebe (Achmed, pielgrzym milości <Achmed, The pilgrim of love>, to own libretto. the piano extract, Leipzig was Published was about 1875, publ. the R. Forberg)
• Joanna Grey (music to own theatrical art, Vienna 1875, publ. V. Kratochwill)

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

Literary works

Poetry

• Krople czary <The Drops of goblet> 1865
• Szkice helweckie i Talia <Helvetian drafts and Waist>1868 (Leipzig, publ. P. Rhode)
• Piołuny <Absinthes> 1869
• Kochankowie ojczyzny <The Lovers of motherland> 1872

Dramas

• Karlińscy 1874 ^[1]
• Joanna Grey <Jane Grey> 1875 ^[2]
• The Achmed the oder the Pilger the Liebe - libretto in German.

Publicist

• Articles and reviews in „Ruch literacki” and „Tygodnik ilustrowany”.

Documentary

• Archiwum Wróblewieckie (Lvov 1883, publ. Gubrynowicz and Schmidt; Poznan - Dresden 1869, publ. J. I. Kraszewski)

Translations

• The Osjan Song,
• Hamlet W. Shakespeare'a
• Works P.B. Shelley
• Works H. Haine
• P. Cornelius: Grundzüge der Geschichte der Musik, well-known with translated title: Zarys historii muzyki <The "Outline of history of music>(Leipzig 1869).

External links

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

References

• Encyklopedia muzyczna, publ. PWM 2009
• Encyklopedia muzyki, publ. PWN 2001
• Encyklopedia literatury, publ. PWN 2007
• Sir George Grove, (edited by Stanley Sadie) The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, II edition, Vol. 25 (Taiwan to Twelwe Apostles), 2001, str. 103-104.
• Franz Stieger peralexikon, Part II – Komponisten, Vol. 3 (N-Z), Verlegt Bei Hans Schneider, Tutzing, 1978, p. 1097.
• Franz Stieger Operalexikon, Part III – Libréttisten, Vol. 3 (Q-Z), Verlegt Bei Hans Schneider, Tutzing, 1981, p. 936.

1. ↑
2. ↑