"Romeo and Juliet" by Peter Tchaikovsky. The 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death

Czesław Grajewski

doi:10.21697/sc.2017.24.18en

Published: 2021-04-18

Vol. 24 (2017)

"Romeo and Juliet" by Peter Tchaikovsky. The 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death

Czesław Grajewski

Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings

Section: Rozprawy i Artykuły

https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2017.24.18en

Abstract

With the biography of P. Tchaikovsky in the background, the author describes the circumstances of the creation of the overture Romeo and Juliet. Then he briefly analyses the composition itself and describes its character.

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P. Tchaikovsky, music, Romeo and Juliet, W. Shakespeare

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Grajewski, C. (2021). "Romeo and Juliet" by Peter Tchaikovsky. The 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings, 24, 229–237. https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2017.24.18en

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Czesław Grajewski

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Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw Poland

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Prof. Dr Hab. Czesław Grajewski, (b. 1960), in 1986 graduated cum laude in Musicology from the Warsaw Theological Academy (now Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University). The supervisor of his MA was Fr. Prof. Dr. Hab. Jerzy Pikulik. In 1995 he earned his doctorate upon completing the dissertation Antyfonarz gnieźnieński ms. 94-97 w świetle tradycji polskiej i ogólnoeuropejskiej (Gniezno Antiphonary ms. 94-97 in light of Polish and pan-European tradition; supervisor: Fr. Prof. Dr. Hab. Jerzy Pikulik). In 2001 he was employed by his Alma Mater, until 2004 being a lecturer of practical subjects at the Faculty of Historical and Social Sciences. In 2005 he earned his post-doctoral degree on the basis of the dissertation Formuły dyferencyjne psalmodii brewiarzowej w źródłach polskich (Differential formulae of breviary psalms in Polish written records) and got successively promoted: 2006-2007 he was assistant professor in the Department of Old Music Sources and Analyses, in 2006-2014 headed the Department. Between 2007 and 2015 he led the Specialty of Theoretical and Applied Musicology at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University. In 2015 he earned the professorial title in the humanities and now is a faculty member of the Department of Old Art in the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University Institute of Art History.

His research focuses on the sources of Polish medieval antiphonaries, European tonary missals and selected issues of contemporary Polish sacred music. He is also an active church musician.