Lublin | Władysław Żeleński: the 100th death anniversary

The Lublin Philharmonic Orchestra  will open the 2020/2021 artistic season with a series of concerts devoted to the work of Władysław Żeleński – a composer, teacher, and a great music authority. On 3 September 2021 at 7.00 p.m. the orchestra under the baton of Wojciech Rodek together with cellist Szymon Krzeszowiec will present Żeleński's symphonic works.

The composer Władysław Żeleński performed as a conductor and pianist, he was a reviewer of "Czas" ["Time"] journal, he organised concerts. In 1888, he developed the Krakow School of the Music Society into a music conservatory educating a new generation of musicians. Żeleński's works were performed with great success not only in Warsaw and Krakow, where he spent most of his professional life, but also in Lviv, Vienna, Prague, Paris and St. Petersburg, and were published by the publishing houses of Leipzig, Prague and Milan. The composer's legacy covers almost all genres and forms of music practiced in the second half of the 19th century, ranging from solo pieces, through chamber works, to symphonic and operatic works. The celebration of the 100th anniversary of the artist's death brings back the memory of him and his rarely presented work.

The series will be inaugurated by a concert devoted to Żeleński's symphonic works. We will hear music to Juliusz Słowacki's stage drama Lilla Weneda, for the first time in Lublin we will hear Romance for cello and orchestra and Suite of Polish Dances, Op. 47 and the characteristic overture In the Tatra mountains. The score was written in Paris, but it was first performed in Krakow. Despite the title, it is difficult to find references to the original highlander folklore, which was already pointed out by the musicologist Adolf Chybiński, who said that "it is indeed a view of the Tatra Mountains, but from the south, from the windows of a good restaurant in old Szmeks, where exquisite dishes are served by exquisite waiters, Gypsy music plays to the ear, and the atmosphere is created by crystal candelabra and good Hungarian wine ”.

Co-financed in the "Music" programm carried out by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Information about tickets at: https://filharmonialubelska.pl/