Janina Skowronska
Janina Skowronska (February 8, 1920 - 1992)[1] was a Polish composer[2][3] who is best remembered for her arrangements of folk songs, and for creating Little Chopin, a children’s musical based on the life and works of Frederic Chopin.[4]
Skowronska was born to a Polish family in Germakowka (then in the USSR, now in Ukraine). She studied music at the State Music College in Wroclaw, Poland, and with Tadeusz Szeligowski. She received a diploma in 1961.[5]
Skowronska’s compositions included:
Chamber
- Theme and Variations (string quartet)[5]
Orchestra
- Symphony[5]
Piano
- Preludes[5]
- Rondo[5]
- Waltz[5]
Theatre
- Little Chopin (for children)[4]
Vocal
- Children’s Songs[6]
- Drugi Brzeg (soprano, oboe, two clarinets and horn)[5]
- “Golden Rain”[7]
- Moda Pani Czepca Nie Ma (mixed chorus)[5]
- O Wy Corne Kawki (folk song; mixed chorus)[5]
- Od Krakowa do Wroclawia (folk dance suite; chorus and orchestra)[5]
- Parodie (text by W. Marianowicz; baritone, soprano, bassoon and string orchestra)[5]
- Pokoju Czas (text by R. Heniszowa; mixed chorus)[5]
- Samotne Drzewa (text by L. Turkowski; mixed chorus)[5]
- Suite of Folk Dances (text by Andrzej Waligórski; orchestra and chorus)[5]
- “Tu Bedziemy” (text by A. Burcia; voice and piano)[5]
- Two Folksongs (soprano and piano)[5]
- U.F.O. (for soprano and eight instruments: clarinet, cello, six percussion)[8]
- Ziemio Moja (mixed chorus)[5]
References
- ^ Pijarowska, Alexsandra (2021). "Music: The Cultural Bridge" (PDF). dbc.wroc.pl. Karol Lipinski Academy of Music. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
- ^ Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
- ^ Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall. ISBN 0-8161-8498-4. OCLC 6815939.
- ^ a b "Chopin on Barricades: About the 100th Anniversary of Chopin's Birth (1949) and Socialist Realism Doctrine in Poland". Kwartalnik Młodych Muzykologów UJ. 36 (1): 20, 96. 2018. doi:10.4467/23537094KMMUJ.18.017.9020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. Books & Music (USA). ISBN 978-0-9617485-2-4.
- ^ Polish Music. Authors Agency. 1981.
- ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1974). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series.
- ^ Polish Music. Authors Agency. 1976.