Kazimierz Serocki

Kazimierz Serocki 3 March 1922 Toruń - 9 January 1981 Warsaw Was A Polish Composer And One Of The Founders Of The Warsaw Autumn Contemporary Music Festival. 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. Kazimierz Serocki's Output Is Concentrated In Two Main Spheres Orchestral Music And Vocal-Instrumental Pieces To Polish Texts Selected With Fine Discrimination. Kazimierz Serocki Was One Of The Founders Along With Tadeusz Baird Of The Warsaw Autumn International Contemporary Music Festival. 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 Chopin. He Also Received A Prize At The UNESCO Competition In 1959 For The Sinfonietta And The Award Of The Minister Of Culture And Fine Arts In 1963 For The Whole Of His Work. Chamber Music * Suite For 4 Trombones - 1953 * Sonatina For Trombone And Piano - 1954 * Dance For Clarinet And Piano - 1954 * Continuum - Sextet For Percussion Instruments - 1966 * Swinging Music For Clarinet Trombone Cello Or Double Bass And Piano - 1970 * Fantasmagoria For Piano And Percussion - 1971 * Arrangements For 1-4 Recorders - 1975-1976 Orchestral Works And Concertos * Three Melodies From Kurpie For 6 Sopranos 6 Tenors And Chamber Orchestra - 1949 * 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 Libitum Five Pieces For Symphony Orchestra - 1973-1977 * Pianophonie For Piano Electronic Transformation Of Sound And Orchestra - 1976-1978 Solo Instruments * Suite Of Preludes For Piano - 1952 * Brownies Krasnoludki 7 Miniatures For Children For Piano - 1953 * Sonata For Piano - 1955 * A Piacere Suggestions For Piano - 1963 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 4-Part Unaccompanied Mixed Choir * Songs Of Midsummer Night Suite Folk Text - 1954 * Suite From The Opole Region In Silesia Folk Text - 1954 read less