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Kazimierz Serocki (3 March 1922 – 9 January 1981) was a Polish composer and one of the founders of the Warsaw Autumn contemporary music festival.
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Kazimierz Serocki (3 March 1922 – 9 January 1981) was a Polish composer and one of the founders of the Warsaw Autumn contemporary music festival.
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Life Serocki was born in Toruń. He studied composition with Kazimierz Sikorski and piano with Stanisław Szpinalski at the State Higher School of Music in Łódź and graduated in 1946. He continued in Paris, studying composition with Nadia Boulanger and piano with Lazare Lévy, before graduating in 1947-1948. Between 1946 and 1951 he performed many times as a concert pianist in Poland and abroad, but for the rest of his career, he was focused exclusively on composition. Serocki's output is concentrated in two main spheres: orchestral music and vocal-instrumental pieces to Polish texts selected with fine discrimination. His main compositional idea was to explore sound color in music. His last work – Pianophonie (1979) – used the possibilities provided by electronic processing of live piano sound. Serocki was one of the founders, along with Tadeusz Baird, of the Warsaw Autumn international contemporary music festival (1956). Together with Tadeusz Baird and Jan Krenz he formed the composers' group Group 49. He was vice-president of the central administration of the Polish Composers' Union from 1954 to 1955. He received a number of Polish and foreign awards, including several State Prizes, among them one in 1952 for his music to the film Young…
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Orchestral works and concertos Three Melodies from Kurpie for 6 sopranos, 6 tenors, and chamber orchestra - 1949 Romantic Concerto for piano and orchestra - 1950 Symphony No. 1 - 1952 Symphony No. 2, "Symphony of Song" for soprano, baritone, choir, and orchestra - 1953 Concerto for trombone and orchestra - 1953 Sinfonietta for 2 string orchestras - 1956 Heart of the Night, song cycle for baritone and orchestra - 1956 Eyes of the Air, song cycle for soprano and orchestra - 1957 Musica concertante - 1958 Episodes for strings and 3 groups of percussion - 1959 Segmenti - 1961 Symphonic Frescoes - 1964 Niobe, music to extracts from a poem by Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński for 2 reciters (man and woman), mixed choir, and orchestra - 1966 Forte e piano, music for two pianos and orchestra - 1967 Poems, to words by Tadeusz Różewicz for soprano and chamber orchestra - 1969 Dramatic Story for orchestra - 1971 Fantasia elegiaca for organ and orchestra - 1972 Impromptu fantasque for recorders, mandolins, guitars, percussion and piano - 1973 Sonatina for trombone and orchestra - 1974 (arrangement of the 1954 Sonatina) Concerto alla cadenza per flauto a becco e orchestra - 1974 Ad…
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Voice and piano Heart of the Night (Serce nocy), song cycle for baritone and piano (text: K.I. Gałczyński) - 1956 Eyes of the Air (Oczy powietrza), song cycle for soprano and piano (text: J. Przyboś) - 1957