Classical Music in Poland and the Europe of Chopin - From the Reviewer's Notebook

  Stanisław Moniuszko (1819-1872) Print by Jean Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse (1810-1879); publlié par l'Editeur J.K. Wilczyński (1850)/ public domain; source: Biblioteka Narodowa Michael Moran will be covering this competition in his customary detailed manner  but using this website link  https://wp.me/p7R7tt-i7 or https://michael-moran.org/2019/09/16/the-stanislaw-moniuszko-international-competition-of-polish-music-in-rzeszow-20-27-september-2019/ Official website of the Competition http://www.konkursmuzykipolskiej.pl/en/

Friday, 6 September, 7:00 pm The Royal Castle – Great Hall Plac Zamkowy 4 Józef Elsner – A Pole by Choice The piano used in these concerts was a 1843 Broadwood  Józef Elsner (1769-1854) was not only a composer and teacher of Chopin but founded the Warsaw Conservatory not long after the first European music Conservatory, the  Conservatoire National de Musique,  was founded in Paris.    He contributed an inestimable amount to the growth and development of music in Poland as part of a more general education at the Main School of Music, a part of the Warsaw University. Elsner was a respected composer of opera and chamber music, grounded in the classical Germanic musical tradition through his studies as a young man in Breslau (Wroclaw) and Vienna. Most interestingly he was deeply influenced by the educational methods of the Swiss Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. He treated education as the planting and growth of a 'seed' that developed organically within the stu

  Stanisław Moniuszko (1819-1872) Print by Jean Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse (1810-1879); publlié par l'Editeur J.K. Wilczyński (1850)/ public domain; source: Biblioteka Narodowa Michael Moran will be covering this competition in his customary detailed manner  but using this website link  https://wp.me/p7R7tt-i7 or https://michael-moran.org/2019/09/16/the-stanislaw-moniuszko-international-competition-of-polish-music-in-rzeszow-20-27-september-2019/ Official website of the Competition http://www.konkursmuzykipolskiej.pl/en/