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    Published: 2022-12-16
    Vol. 37 No. 2 (2016)

    Reverberations of Piano Mazurkas by Chopin and Szymanowski in the Works of their Successors. Selected Examples

    Michał Kamil Zawadzki
    Seminare. Learned Investigations
    Section: History
    https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2016.2.14

    Abstract

    This article attempts to provide a possibly broad and diverse perspective on piano mazurkas by Polish composers, from Żeleński to Kilar, inspired by the works of the two greatest composers of this genre – Chopin and Szymanowski. The analysis is based on thirty-one, subjectively chosen, artistic piano miniatures from the period of 1880-2006. Utilitarian and, with very few exceptions, salon pieces, have been left out. The author focuses on the aspects of harmony and melody which, in his opinion, best expose the presence of the processed elements of the folk origin, as well as the mutual relationships between the sphere of influences and inspirations and that of the individual and innovative trends. The musical pieces have been divided into five groups: (1) mazurkas inspired by the Chopin idiom and/or those influenced by the utilitarian and salon needs, (2) mazurkas inspired by the Polish highlands folk idiom, (3) mazurkas inspired by two different sources, (4) mazurkas revealing the influence of past inspirations on individual compositional techniques, (5) mazurkas dominated by individual composing techniques of the authors.

    Keywords:

    mazurka, folklore, folk music, piano music, Polish music, resonance, inspiration, Frederic Chopin, Karol Szymanowski

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    Zawadzki , M. K. (2022). Reverberations of Piano Mazurkas by Chopin and Szymanowski in the Works of their Successors. Selected Examples . Seminare. Learned Investigations, 37(2), 173–186. https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2016.2.14

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