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Henryk Opieński (13 January 1870 – 21 January 1942) was a Polish composer, violinist, teacher, administrator and musicologist. His writings on, and collected letters by, Frédéric Chopin, were considered of paramount importance in Chopin studies of the time.
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Henryk Opieński (13 January 1870 – 21 January 1942) was a Polish composer, violinist, teacher, administrator and musicologist. His writings on, and collected letters by, Frédéric Chopin, were considered of paramount importance in Chopin studies of the time.
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Biography Opieński was born in Kraków in 1870, and he commenced his study of the violin with Vincent Singer there. When aged 12 in 1882, he participated in a juvenile prank with three other boys Stanisław Wyspiański, Józef Mehoffer, Stanisław Estreicher by tolling the Sigismund Bell. Between 1888 and 1892 he studied chemistry at university in Prague to please his parents, while continuing his violin studies with Ferdinand Lachner. From 1892 to 1894 he returned to Kraków and worked in the chemical industry, being appointed controller of distilleries at Żółkiew and Rzeszów. He then resumed his study of composition with Władysław Żeleński. In 1895 he went to Paris, where he had further violin studies with Wladyslaw Gorski, and further composition studies with Zygmunt Stojowski and Ignacy Jan Paderewski, who became a close lifelong friend. In 1897 and 1898 he had composition studies with Heinrich Urban in Berlin, while working as a violinist. In 1898 he returned to Paris to study with Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum de Paris. He also played violin with the orchestra of Édouard Colonne 1899–1901. Back in Poland from 1901, he continued his life as a violinist and also founded the choir of the Warsaw…
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Compositions Opieński's compositions are little-known now. They include:
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Daniel, unfinished and unpublished Maria, 3 acts (Poznań, 27 April 1923) Jacob the Lutenist, 2 acts and an epilogue (Poznan, 21 December 1927)
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Orchestra Lilla Weneda, Op. 12, symphonic poem (1908) Zygmunt August and Barbara, Op. 13, symphonic poem (1911; also called Love and Destiny) Meditations on a Kashubian Theme, symphonic poem (1920)
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Krakowiak, Op. 7, violin and piano Scènes lyriques en forme de quatuor, Op. 10, string quartet
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Choral La Fuite de l'Hiver, four male voices a cappella The eternal spring, mixed choir a cappella Six national songs, mixed choir a cappella Six national songs, mixed choir a cappella
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Four songs, male choir a cappella Dance the night mists, choir and orchestra Cantata in honor of Mickiewicz, choir and orchestra (1908) Veni Creator, cantata for chorus and orchestra (1927) L'enfant prodigue, solo voices, chorus and orchestra (1930)
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Chopin as Creator (1912) Outlines of the History of Music (1912)
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Moniuszko (1924) Collected letters of Chopin, 1932 (ed. and trans. E. L. Voynich) I. J. Paderewski: Esquisse de sa vie et de son oeuvre (with Gabriel Hanotaux, Gustave Doret and Alfred Cortot)