October 6 - Karol Szymanowski; Settimia Caccini (The Musical Birthday Series, 6th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for October 6th are here: Karol Szymanowski; Jenny Lind (2019), Paul Badura-Skoda; Oscar Sonneck (2020), Jenny Lind (2021), William Batchelder Bradbury (2022), and Jenny Lind (2023)

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Karol Szymanowski (6 October 1882 – 29 March 1937) was the leading Polish composer of the first third of the last century.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Advice

 

According to Samson, "Szymanowski adopted no thorough-going alternatives to tonal organization [...] the harmonic tensions and relaxations and the melodic phraseology have clear origins in tonal procedure, but [...] an underpinning tonal framework has been almost or completely dissolved away." -- Wikipedia

 

When playing Szymanowski’s stuff,

   You shouldn’t try to rush. You

Quickly find his scores are tough,

   Harmonically arcane, and plush. You

Cannot read him off the cuff,

   The sharps and flats will crush you.

 

 

 

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Settimia Caccini (6 October 1591 – c. 1638) was a well-known Italian singer and composer during the 1600s, being one of the first women to have a successful career in music.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday Anyway

She came from a family of well-known composers and singers, with her father being Giulio Caccnin and her sister Francesca Caccini. — Wikipedia

Settimia Caccini, whose father and sister

Are so much more famous, you’ve probably missed her,

Was nevertheless, in her place and her time

Are very big star, —so I’ve written this rhyme.

 

 

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