Favorite Polish Composer

[kyjo]

I realize this is kind of a stupid poll, as all the Polish composers listed are pretty stylistically disparate from each other (except maybe Kilar and Gorecki). If I have left out a Polish composer who you would like to vote for, please let me know and I shall add him/her to the list! Also, I debated whether to include Tansman and Panufnik, since they both spent the majority of their lifetimes outside of their homeland, but why not include them!

Anyways, I voted for Szymanowski. His music is so lush and beautiful yet mysterious and intense at the same time. There's just so much to his music. Karlowicz could have very well become a great composer had he not died so young. His compositions show great promise. I really enjoy his music (he is my second favorite on the list), but Szymanowski takes the cake for me.

[Mirror Image]

I, too, voted for Szymanowski but really by default. I'm trying to get more acquainted with Lutoslawski at the moment.

[North Star]

Chopin is French. Chopin is French. Chopin is French.
I vote Szymanowski, Lutoslawski is great too, though.
Will need to listen to more Penderecki, Gorecki, Bacewicz & Panufnik.

[Todd]

Chopin is French. Chopin is French. Chopin is French.

Huh?

[springrite]

Chopin is French. Chopin is French. Chopin is French.

By that argument there are no American composers of note. They are Italian, English, German, Irish, Swedish, French...

Oh, I voted for Lutoslawski

[Sergeant Rock]

Chopin

[Opus106]

Huh?

Exactly, "Chopin was born at Żelazowa Wola, a village in the Duchy of Warsaw, then under Russian rule. A child prodigy, he grew up in Warsaw and completed his musical education there, composing a number of his works before leaving Poland at the age of 20"

C'mon, people, it's just an excuse for Karlo to vote for Karol.



P.S.: Technically, Chopin died a French citizen.

[Opus106]

Stravinsky and Schoenberg died as American citizens; does that make them an American composers?

All I'm saying is that you can 'cheat' (on a technicality) to vote for your second-favourite Polish composer, while at the same time revealing your favourite.

[Todd]

P.S.: Technically, Chopin died a French citizen.

Well, that's too bad. 

I wonder how many Poles exclude Chopin from the ranks of Polish composers.  I also wonder how many judges at the Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny im. Fryderyka Chopina think of Freddie as anything other than Polish.  Actually, no I don't.

[Opus106]

Well, that's too bad. 

I wonder how many Poles exclude Chopin from the ranks of Polish composers.  I also wonder how many judges at the Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny im. Fryderyka Chopina think of Freddie as anything other than Polish.  Actually, no I don't.

Are you going to drag this topic around even after this:

All I'm saying is that you can 'cheat' (on a technicality) to vote for your second-favourite Polish composer, while at the same time revealing your favourite.

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Thread duty: Chopin.

[Karl Henning]

Highly though I may think of some few of the others . . . it is hard for me not to feel something on the lines of, There is Chopin, and there is everyone else . . . .

[Todd]

Highly though I may think of some few of the others . . . it is hard for me not to feel something on the lines of, There is Chopin, and there is everyone else . . . .

Precisely. 

[Lisztianwagner]

Fryderyk Chopin, no doubt.

[kyjo]

Mieczysław Weinberg is my favorite Polish composer; but who appears to have been left off of the list.

He's usually considered a Soviet composer, but I'll add him!

[Mirror Image]

He's usually considered a Soviet composer, but I'll add him!

He was a Soviet composer and is recognized in any classical music history book or encyclopedia as a Soviet composer.

[Mirror Image]

Except he was born and educated in Warsaw and only fled to USSR to avoid persecution as a Jew (some irony, there, but any port in a storm). 

You're right, this is a silly poll (pun intended).

Well the whole nationality thing can become confusing that's for sure. Like, for example, Honegger is recognized as a Swiss composer when the fact remains he spent all of his life in France and spent all his professional life in Paris. Nothing Swiss about this.

[kyjo]

Except he was born and educated in Warsaw and only fled to USSR to avoid persecution as a Jew (some irony, there, but any port in a storm). 

You're right, this is a silly poll (pun intended).

Aren't you going to vote for Weinberg, since I added him to the list?

[kyjo]

Sorry ...

Thanks for adding him.

My pleasure

[DavidW]

By that argument there are no American composers of note. They are Italian, English, German, Irish, Swedish, French...

Oh, I voted for Lutoslawski

I too voted for Lutoslawski.  It was a hard choice but I've spent more time listening to Lutoslawski than any one else on the list, so that is who I must vote for.

[kyjo]

OK, this really was a stupid Pole! Chopin wins by a long shot.....