Maria Szymanowska ( Polish: Maria Szymanowska , nee Marianne Agata Wołowska ; 1789 , Warsaw - 1831 , St. Petersburg ) is a virtuoso Polish pianist and composer.
| Maria Shimanovskaya Maria Szymanowska | |
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| Birth name | Marianna Agata Volovskaya |
| Date of Birth | December 14, 1789 |
| Place of Birth | Warsaw , Commonwealth |
| Date of death | July 25, 1831 (41 years old) |
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| Professions | composer , pianist |
| Instruments | the piano |
| Genres | classic |
Biography
Marianna Agata Volovskaya was born on December 14, 1789 into a prosperous Polish- Franchian family of a Warsaw brewer and homeowner Franciszek Lukasz Wolowski (1758–1839), gentry of the coat of arms “Bull” and his wife Barbara Volovskaya (nee Lantskoronskaya, 1768–1835). Her great-grandfather was the famous magid , rabbi and francist Elisha Shor [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] . She studied piano and composition by Joseph Elsner . Maria gave her first public concerts in Warsaw and Paris in 1810. In the same year, she married the landowner-francist of the coat of arms "Youth" Joseph Szymanowski (1785-1832). Three children were born in the marriage (twins Elena (1811–1861) and Romuald (1811–1839) and daughter Tselin (1812–1855)) [8] , but for Maria the marriage was unhappy because her husband did not approve of her musical work. In 1820, they divorced, and Mary devoted herself to piano compositions and chamber music . She gave concerts only to friends and guests. Her famous “Vingt Exercices et Preludes” for piano and many songs composed by her belong to this period of life.
After the first concerts in Warsaw in 1822, she began touring trips in which her three children accompanied her. In 1823-1827 she traveled all over Europe and performed in Germany, England, France, Switzerland, Italy and Russia. Maria Shimanovskaya was probably the first pianist to perform her compositions from memory. In Berlin and London, she performed for royalty, in Weimar, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe admired her talent. In 1828, she was invited by the court pianist and piano teacher to St. Petersburg. Her music salon in St. Petersburg was visited by many Polish and Russian people of art and aristocrats. The Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz married her daughter Tselina. Frantisek Malevsky, a lawyer who was part of the Second Department of his own I. I. V. Chancellery with M. M. Speransky and took an active part in compiling the Code of Laws, married the eldest daughter of Shimanovskaya, Elena. [9] Maria Shimanovskaya died July 25, 1831 at the age of 41 in St. Petersburg from cholera . She was buried at Mitrofanievsky cemetery .
Maria Shimanovskaya left a deep mark in the culture of many countries. Goethe spoke of Szymanowska as the "captivating goddess of music," and Miscavige called her the "queen of sounds . "
September 25, 2010 at the Tikhvin cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg , the cenotaph of Maria Shimanovskaya was opened, designed by the architect Vyacheslav Bukhayev [10] [11] .
Notes
- ↑ Shimanovskaya Maria // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ed. A. M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- ↑ F. Shimanovskaya // Musical Dictionary : Translation from the 5th German Edition / Ed. Yu. D. Engel - M .: Music Publishing House of P.I. Jurgenson , 1901. - T. 3. - P. 1426.
- ↑ Belza I.F. Maria Shimanovskaya / ed. O. E. Levasheva. - M .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1956. - 186 p.
- ↑ Maria Szymanowska - kobieta Europy
- ↑ Potomkowie frankistów (katolickich Żydów)
- ↑ Szor Elisza
- ↑ Wolowski family
- ↑ Marianna Agata Wołowska h. Bawół
- ↑ At the same time Malevsky (together with Nikolai Malinovsky) founded the Polish newspaper Tygodnik Petersburgski , the editor of which was O. A. Przeclavsky . Poles in St. Petersburg in the first half of the XIX century. M.: New Literary Review, 2010 .-- 912 p. S.151-152, 561-582
- ↑ Memorial sign - “The Queen of Sounds” . 100TV (September 25, 2010). Date of treatment September 25, 2010. Archived April 1, 2012.
- ↑ Piryutko Yu. M. Educational project “Musical Neropol” Maria Shimanovskaya (1789-1831) (inaccessible link) . State Museum of Urban Sculpture (September 25, 2010). Date of treatment September 25, 2010. Archived March 6, 2016.
Links
- Shimanovskaya, Maria: sheet music at International Music Score Library Project