Feliks Nowowiejski
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Feliks Nowowiejski (February 7, 1877 – January 18, 1946) was a Polish composer, conductor, concert organist, and music teacher. Nowowiejski was born in Barczewo (Wartenburg) in East Prussia, part of the Prussian partition of Poland. He died in Poznań, Poland.
His best-known compositions include:
- March, Pod sztandarem pokoju (Under the Banner of Peace, 1898, awarded a prize in London).
- Oratorio, Powrót syna marnotrawnego (The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1902, awarded the Giacomo Meyerbeer Prize).
- Overture, Swaty polskie (Polish Courtship, 1903, awarded the Ludwig van Beethoven Prize).
- Oratorio, Znalezienie Świętego Krzyża (The Discovery of the Holy Cross, with the famous Pace Domine, 1906).
- Oratorio, Quo vadis (1907).
- Song, Rota (1910).
- Opera, Emigranci (The Emigrants, 1917).
- Opera, Legenda Bałtyku (The Legend of the Baltic, 1924)
- Orchestral symphonies
- Piano Concerto, Slavonic, op. 60
- Cello Concerto, op. 55
- 9 organ symphonies op. 45 (ca. 1929-31)
- 4 organ concertos op. 56 (ca. 1930-40)
- In Paradisum, the organ poem, op. 61 (1941)
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Free scores by Feliks Nowowiejski at the International Music Score Library Project
- Recordings of Nowowiejski's organ works
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