Karol Szymanowski
Polish composer of modernist and folk-inspired works
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Life and work
He completed the manuscript of a two-volume novel, Efebos, in 1918, which took homosexuality as its subject.[3][2] Szymanowski settled in Warsaw in 1919 and later moved to Villa Atma in Zakopane, where he developed a keen interest in Polish folk idiom.[4][5] Due to a lame knee, Szymanowski was exempted from World War I military service; from 1914 to 1917 he produced many compositions and immersed himself in the study of Islamic culture, ancient Greek drama, and philosophy.[5] Szymanowski died on 29 March 1937 at a sanatorium in Lausanne, and his remains were interred at Skałka in Kraków.[1]
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According to the same source, his father decided to begin "serious" music education when Karol was seven years old.[2] Neil Galanter's account notes that Szymanowski was a truly individual composer and a cosmopolitan man with strong artistic aspirations connected to his native Poland.[6] Galanter states that even though many Polish musicians championed Szymanowski's works, his music has not entered the mainstream repertoire to a large extent outside Poland.[6]
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- Wikipedia, "Karol Szymanowski" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Karol Szymanowski", Culture.pl, 2007 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "Cicha woda? Karol Szymanowski – życie kompozytora", historia.dorzeczy.pl, 29 March 2022. facts only, no text reused. historia.dorzeczy.pl
- Wikipedia, "Karol Szymanowski" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Stephen Downes, "Eros and Paneuropeanism", in Harry White and Michael Murphy, eds., Musical Constructions of Nationalism: Essays on the History and Ideology of ; The manuscript was lost in a fire in September 1939 during the siege of Warsaw. The only part that survives is the central chapter, "The Symposium", which Szyma (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Karol Szymanowski" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Stephen Downes, "Eros and Paneuropeanism", in Harry White and Michael Murphy, eds., Musical Constructions of Nationalism: Essays on the History and Ideology of (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Karol Szymanowski" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Karol Szymanowski | Polish Composer, Impressionist & Modernist | Britannica", www.britannica.com, 2 October 2023 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Neil Galanter, "Karol Szymanowski", polishmusic.usc.edu. facts only, no text reused. polishmusic.usc.edu
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