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to set the church on fire when she hears prayers within. Calling on Janusz to pardon her, she hurls herself from the cliff into the river. Personalities | Stanisław Moniuszko | High Romantic | Opera ...

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(Sta’-ne-slwaf Mon-yoosh’-ko) 1819–72 Polish composer Moniuszko was the foremost composer of operas in nineteenth-century Poland, and his national importance is equivalent to that of Bedřich Smetana(1824–84) in the Czech lands and Glinka in Russia. He studied in Minsk (1830–37) and Berlin (1837–40) and began to write stage works in the mid-1840s. His opera Halka was staged in Warsaw in 1858 to ...

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1819–72, Polish Stanisław Moniuszko began by writing a series of operettas before producing Halka (1846–47), his best-known work, and the first of his three operas. After a revised version was given its first performance in Warsaw in 1858, Halka was hailed as the first important Polish national opera and Moniuszko acquired a place at the forefront of Polish ...

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he wrote many songs and sacred works. Recommended Recording: Les Huguenots, soloists, New Philharmonia Orchestra (cond) Richard Bonynge (Decca) Introduction | Early Romantic | Classical Personalities | Stanisław Moniuszko | Early Romantic | Classical ...

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dramatic interpretations of his roles, and his legato singing was greatly admired by Modeste Tchaikovsky, brother of the composer. Introduction | High Romantic | Opera Personalities | Stanisław Moniuszko | High Romantic | Opera ...

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work was furthered by the first of the country’s great nationalist composers, Bedřich Smetana (1824–84). Traditions, national heroes and historical themes also marked the operas of Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko (1819–72) and the Hungarian Ferenc Erkel (1810–91). In the nineteenth century, Czechoslovakia and Hungary were under Austrian rule – although the latter had some autonomy – and Poland was ...