Dear Grzegorz, Thank you so much for that hint! Apart from Chopin, I am little aware of Polish music, and so are probably other people. On the website link you provided, also Maria Szymanowska is mentioned who must have been not only a touching and brilliant piano player but also a fantastic composer. I only have known so far that Goethe adored her, and that part of his "Marienbader Elegie" and other poems are an answer to her and her music. But I never heard any piece of music and will now, inspired by you, dive a little into it - and Josef Koffler. Thanks again.
Franz __________________________________________________________________ Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu im Auftrag von Grzegorz Joachimiak Gesendet: Do 21/10/2010 23:38 An: Stuart Walsh Cc: Lute Net Betreff: [LUTE] Odp: a little Polish folk song Hi Stuart, I am not a specialist in modern music, but I know fantastic book about Josef Koffler: Maciej Golab *Jozef Koffler: Compositional Style and Source Documents*, [Translated by Maksymilian Kapelanski, Linda Schubert and Marek Zebrowski]. With a foreword by Antony Polonsky and a CD of examples edited by Mateusz Gol/ab. Polish Music History Series, Vol. 8, Los Angeles 2004, pp. 318. look at: [1]http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/pmhsbooks/historyser.html#no8 Have fun Grzegorz Dnia 21-10-2010 o godz. 23:27 Stuart Walsh napisal/(a): > Just a bit of serendipity. I came across a website with a little folk > song setting by Josef Koffler (1920s), who, it seems, went on to become > a modernist composer. I suppose the melody is a real folk song, but I > really don't know. And the accompaniment is a very simple ostinato, a > whole-tone fragment. The picture is from Google images with the entry > 'Poland 1920s' but ot could be anyone from anywhere. Or maybe it's a > really famous image? > > [2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vym0zWq4Ms4 > > > Stuart > > > To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/pmhsbooks/historyser.html#no8 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vym0zWq4Ms4 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html