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.

Władysław Tarnowski by Maurycy Gottlieb, 1877.

Biography

He was the son of Count Walerian Spycimir Tarnowski and Ernestyna Tarnowska. Recognized as talented at an early age, he was introduced to famed composer Frédéric Chopin. He studied in Lvov and Cracow, with Daniel-François-Esprit Auber at the Conservatoire de Paris, with a break during the time of the January Uprising of 1863-1864, during which he wrote the song "Jak to na wojence ładnie" ["Isn't the war fun"] which remains popular to the modern day, in various alterations. He traveled widely, giving concerts in Wroclaw in 1860 and 1875, Lvov in 1875, Vienna, Venice and Firence in 1872, and Paris in 1873.

Compositions

Intimate

Piano

Andantino pensieroso

Songs

Solo:

With piano accompaniment:

Ich sank verweint in sanften schlummer - piano instead of the voice
Neig o schone Knospe - piano instead of the voice
Du buch mit sieben siegeln - piano instead of the voice
Ob du nun ruhst - piano instead of the voice
Still klingt das Glocklein durch Felder - accompaniment
Kennst du die Rosen - piano instead of the voice

Stage

Alastor's romance from: Joanna Grey - piano instead of the string trio

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

References

  1. Andantino pensieroso in: CBN - Polona.
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