#pianist!poland

[ohchopin]

Chopin's Birthplace ❄️ Żelazowa Wola, Poland

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning. . . without meaning, that is, except its own, a meaning in musical terms, not in terms of words, which inhabit an altogether different mental climate. . . If it could be told in words, then why would Chopin have found it necessary to tell it through notes in the first place?

- Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein at Frédéric Chopin's piano in Warsaw, Poland, 1959.

[chopinbabe]

Chopin in a VID❤️❤️Can’t stop looping tbh

Feels like he is ALIVE, he is looking at you. 😘

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Important 20th Century pianist-composer Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937) – hailed in some circles as the greatest Polish composer after Frederic Chopin (1810 – 1849) – dies of tuberculosis at a sanitarium in Lausanne, Switzerland. A member of the “Young Poland” modernist movement that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century, Szymanowski's early works owe a clear debt to the late-Romantic German school (i.e., Richard Wagner [1813 - 1883], Richard Strauss [1864 - 1949], and Max Reger [1873 - 1916]) as well as eccentric Russian "mystic" pianist-composer Alexander Scriabin (1871 - 1915). Later on, however, Szymanowski developed an increasingly personal style which blended elements of free atonality / polytonality, French “Impressionism” (drawing from the work of Claude Debussy [1862 - 1918] and Maurice Ravel [1875 - 1937]), and Polish folk music. Indeed, to that last point, the establishment of an independent Polish state in 1918 inspired Szymanowski to consciously seek to forge a distinctly “Polish” style of “classical” composition – a daunting task that hadn’t been seriously attempted by any major composer since Chopin. Polish musicologist Aleksander Laskowski has opined that Szymanowski "ultimately succeeded in his goal of inventing a musical language all his own [...] His works were true and ingenious creations, and his oeuvre shows an incredible development from the Straussian and Wagnerian aesthetic, through an interesting and very romantic 'Oriental' period, and finishing with a nationalist period.” PICTURED: A publicity headshot of the middle-aged Szymanowski (photographed by the famous “Fayer of Vienna” atelier), which he signed and inscribed to a fan in 1931. Szymanowski has also written out a few measures from the opening of his folk-music-infused ballet “Harnasie," which was not publicly premiered until 1935. Autograph material from Szymanowski is exceedingly rare.

[polandgallery]

Fryderyk Chopin Monument, Warsaw, Poland

■ Waclaw Szymanowski (1859-1930), the Polish sculptor, created his massive Chopin monument in 1902, before it was placed at Lazienki Park in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. Various sources describe the sculpture as “Art.Nouveau”, depicting Chopin “sitting under a willow tree seeking inspiration from nature”, or “the stylized willow echoes a pianist’s hand and fingers”.

■ Icons of Europe has concluded that the sculpture more likely refers to Orpheus sitting under a ‘tree uprooted by the power of his music’. The Roman poet Ovid describes in his famous story of Orpheus and Eurydice:

“And list'ning trees their rooted stations leave; Themselves transplanting, all around they grow, And various shades their various kinds bestow. Here, tall Chaonian oaks their branches spread, While weeping poplars there erect their head.”

[postcard-from-the-past]

Polish pianist and prime minister of Poland Ignacy Jan Paderewski

French vintage postcard

[bartlomiejbara]

Rzeszów 2023.

[codycawdren]

The Pianist (2002)

Director: Roman Polanski Starring: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay During WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive. There’s no denying ‘The Pianist’ is an incredibly well made film, but let me be frank; this is a very morbid film. There…

[mikesq10]

My Top 50 Favorite Movies

36

The Pianist (2002)

Sometimes a film comes along that everybody needs to see and that is what The Pianist is. This moving picture takes place during World War 2 following Wladyslaw (Adrien Brody) a talented musician who's life becomes completely altered after soldiers raid his city. This man then has to resort to survival and live by any means necessary and with hopes to reunite with his family. Brody is simply fantastic in his Oscar winning performance and the director, Polanski who is Polish, puts a lot of pride in his filmmaking on full display. Regardless of what movie genres you're into, The Pianist is genre-proof and must-see material.

[suetravelblog]

Chopin Piano Recital Chopin Concert Hall Kraków Poland

Frédéric Chopin Polish Composer and Pianist – pianobook.io Saturday evening I enjoyed a Chopin piano recital at Chopin Concert Hall. The modest hall is located in a part of Kraków new to me, but near Main Market Square. It was easily accessible via tram, and I’ll return to explore the interesting area during daylight. It’s rich in cafés, theaters, and music venues, and home of the Krakow…

[mdr8400]

Hania Rani

[ohchopin]

Fryderyk Chopin Postcard - Zygmunt Badowski, 1913, Warsaw, Poland

[patrickmhiggins]

Chopin in Warsaw. @patrickmhiggins. #warsaw #warszawa #poland #polska #bnwcity #love #polishboy #photography #photooftheday #instagood #polskadziewczyna #w #photo #music #art #beautiful #concerto #travel #pianist #composer #statuephotography #statue #instawarszawa #warsawgirl #concertinthepark #city #wereinthepark #bnwphotography #chopin #europe (at Warsaw, Poland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiuH7-JI2rP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[chopinbabe]

Visited Choppy in 2019 in Paris & Warsaw!!❤️🌹

1. Choppy’s grave in Paris🪦💐 🇫🇷

I bought him some roses🌹 Hope he liked em😘❤️

2. The Chopin Musuem in Warsaw! 🏢😳🇵🇱

His beautiful left hand🤲🏻

His portrait 😘 How is he so fine?😍

His piano! 🎹 I..er…really wanna touch it🤭

His handkerchief 🥵

I bought his little bust and his hand cast!!!😍❤️

3. Chopin’s heart in the Holy Cross Church! 🫀💒🇵🇱

4. Chopin Monument in the Łazienki Park🗽

I miss you everyday❤️‍🔥🥹

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Important 20th Century pianist-composer Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937) – hailed in some circles as the greatest Polish composer after Frederic Chopin (1810 – 1849) – dies of tuberculosis (just like Chopin), in Switzerland.

A member of the “Young Poland” modernist movement that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century, Szymanowski's early works owe a clear debt to the late-Romantic German school (Richard Wagner [1813 - 1883], Richard Strauss [1864 - 1949], and Max Reger [1873 - 1916]) as well as the eccentric Russian "mystic" pianist-composer Alexander Scriabin (1871 - 1915).

Later on, however, Szymanowski developed an increasingly personal style which blended elements of free atonality, polytonality, French “Impressionism” (drawing from the work of Claude Debussy [1862 - 1918] and Maurice Ravel [1875 - 1937]), and Polish folk music.

Indeed, to that last point, the establishment of an independent Polish state in 1918 inspired Szymanowski to consciously seek to forge a distinctly “Polish” style of composition – a daunting task that hadn’t been seriously attempted by any major composer since Chopin himself, nearly a century earlier.

Polish musicologist Aleksander Laskowski has opined that Szymanowski "succeeded in his goal of inventing a musical language all his own[...] His works were true and ingenious creations, and his oeuvre shows an incredible development from the Straussian and Wagnerian aesthetic, through an interesting and very romantic 'Oriental' period, and finishing with a nationalist period.”

PICTURED: A publicity headshot of the middle-aged Szymanowski (photographed by the famous “Fayer of Vienna” atelier), which he signed and inscribed to a fan in 1931. Szymanowski also wrote out a few measures from the opening of his folk-music-infused ballet “Harnasie," which was not publicly premiered until 1935.

Autograph material from Szymanowski is exceedingly rare.

[joyfullybluefox-blog]

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