Mieczyslaw Karlowicz - Symphony in E Minor Op. 7 "Rebirth" (1903) I. Andante - Allegro (1/4)

Symphony in E Minor by Mieczysław Karłowicz. Conducted by Antoni Wit with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.

Mieczysław Karłowicz (11 December 1876 -- 8 February 1909) was a Polish composer and conductor.

He was born in Vishneva (present-day Belarus) into a noble family being part of the Clan of Ostoja. His father Jan was a Polish linguist, lexicographer and musician amateur. As a child he studied the violin, for which instrument he later wrote his only concerto.Karłowicz studied at Warsaw with Prof. Noskowski, Piotr Maszynski, and Gustaw Roguski. He later studied in Berlin with Heinrich Urban. From 1906 to 1907 he studied conducting with Arthur Nikisch.

His music is of a late-romantic/fin-de-siècle character, showing some affinity with Richard Strauss, Alexander Scriabin, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schönberg and Jean Sibelius.
Karłowicz wrote a symphony (Revival), a violin concerto (in A major, opus 8) and his output also contains several tone poems, including Eternal Songs, Stanislaw and Anna Oswiecimowie and The Returning Waves. He also wrote a number of songs for voice and piano, setting words by Kazimierz Tetmajer, Adam Asnyk, and others. Much of the rest of his small output was lost during World War II.
The music of Karłowicz inhabits a prime place in the history of Polish music between Fryderyk Chopin and Karol Szymanowski.Karłowicz spent much of his later years in Zakopane, in the south of Poland, often enjoying one of his favorite hobbies, photography in the nearby mountain scenery.

His music is of a late-romantic/fin-de-siècle character, showing some affinity with Richard Strauss, Alexander Scriabin, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schönberg and Jean Sibelius.
Karłowicz wrote a symphony (Revival), a violin concerto (in A major, opus 8) and his output also contains several tone poems, including Eternal Songs, Stanislaw and Anna Oswiecimowie and The Returning Waves. He also wrote a number of songs for voice and piano, setting words by Kazimierz Tetmajer, Adam Asnyk, and others. Much of the rest of his small output was lost during World War II.
The music of Karłowicz inhabits a prime place in the history of Polish music between Fryderyk Chopin and Karol Szymanowski.
Karłowicz spent much of his later years in Zakopane, in the south of Poland, often enjoying one of his favorite hobbies, photography in the nearby mountain scenery.
He died at 33, while skiing on an excursion in the Tatra mountains in an avalanche in 1909. Mieczysław Karłowicz was buried at Warsaw's Powązki Cemetery.

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[Svarniovci]

this version have prima and seconda volat in exposition! wow..heared it 1st time :)

[Bert3346]

@jakubmamc This shows Tchaikovsky's influence.

[olelali]

This is totally masterpiece.

[jakubmamc]

A beutiful, well composed symphony, a real masterpiece of European music. I wish Karlowicz was better known, even in his native Poland.