Bogusław Schaeffer

Bogusław Julien Schaeffer (also Schäffer) (b. June 6, 1929 in Lwów) (now Lviv, Ukraine) is a Polish composer, musicologist, and graphic artist, member of the avantgarde "Cracow Group" of Polish composers alongside Krzysztof Penderecki and others. Since having studied violin in Opole and graduating musical composition under Zdzisław Jachimecki in 1953 at the Academy of Music in Kraków, Schaeffer has been an active composer and musical theoretician. From 1963, he was a lecturer composition at the Kraków Academy, and had a professor at the Hochschule für Music in Salzburg from the mid-1980s to 2000.

Awards

* 1959 - 2nd Prize at the Grzegorz Fitelberg Competition in Katowice for "Monosonata for 24 solos string instruments"
* 1962 - Prize at the Artur Malawski Competition in Kraków for "Musica ipsa"
* 1964 - 2nd Prize at the Fitelberg Competition for "Little Symphony"
* 2007 - Grand cultural award of the province of Salzburg

Most significant works

"please see List of Bogusław Schaeffer's works"

Books

* "New Music. Problems in Contemporary Composing techniques" ("Nowa Muzyka") - 1958
* "Introduction to Composition" (1974)

Musical works

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Orchestral works

* "Quattro movimenti" for piano and orchestra - 1957
* "Topofonica" for 40 different instruments - 1960
* "Musica ipsa" for orchestra - 1962
* "Music for MI" for vibraphone and orchestra - 1963
* "Collage and Form" for 8 jazz musician and orchestra - 1963
* "Collage" for orchestra - 1964
* "Text" for orchestra - 1971
* "Warsaw Overture" for orchestra - 1975
* "Stabat mater" for sopran, alt, string orchestra and orgeln - 1983
* "Missa sinfonica" for orchestra - 1986

Concerto

* "4 movimenti" for piano and chamber orchestra - 1957
* "Concerto Breve" for cello and orchestra - 1959
* "Concerto" for flute, flute trio and orchestra - 1963
* "Violin concerto" - 1963
* "Piano Concerto II" for piano and orchestra - 1967
* "Jazz Concerto" for 12 musicians and orchestra - 1969
* "Concerto" for 3 pianos - 1972
* "Concerto" for guitar and orchestra - 1984
* "Concerto" for 2 piano 4 hands and orchestra - 1988
* "Violin Concerto II" - 1989
* "Piano Concerto III" for piano, orchestra and electronic media - 1990
* "Piano Concerto IV" for piano, orchestra and electronic media - 1999
* "Violin Concerto III" for violin and orchestra - 1999
* "Piano Concerto V" for piano and 15 vocalists - 1990
* "Violin Concerto IV" for violinist with 3 violins and chamber orchestra - 2003
* "Piano Concerto VI" for piano and 11 instruments (including accordion) - 2004
* "Piano Concerto VII" for piano and chamber orchestra - 2005
* "Violin Concerto V" for violin and female chorus - 2006

Chamber music

* "I String Quartett" - 1957
* "Music" for string quartet - 1954
* "Permutations" for 10 instruments - 1956
* "String quartet No.1" - 1957
* "Extremes" for 10 instruments - 1957
* "Monosonate" for 6 string quartetts - 1946
* "Lineare Construction" for piano - 1959
* "Kodes" for chamber orchestra - 1961
* "Strng Quartet No.2" - 1964
* "Composition" for harp and piano - 1966
* "Estratto" for string trio - 1971
* "String Quartet No.3" - 1971
* "Mare" for piano and 9 instruments - 1971
* "Negative Music" for chosen instrument - 1972
* "Free Form I" for 5 instruments - 1972
* "Minimal Art" for tuba, piano - 1977
* "Gravesono" for wind instrument - 1977
* "Self-expression" for violoncello - 1978
* "Kesukann" for 13 string instruments - 1978
* "Esatto e libero" for violin and piano - 1983
* "Mouhadatsa" for viola and violoncello - 1985
* "Kwaiwa" for violin and computer - 1986
* "Summer Music" for akordeon, piano - 1987
* "Missa brevis" for choir - 1988
* "Spring Music" for violin and piano - 1988
* "String Quartet No.17" - 2006
* "Winter Music" for horn and piano - 1988
* "Love Moments" - 1990

keyboard works

* "Sonatine" - 1952
* "Composition" - 1954
* "Model I-XXXIV" - 1956-2006
* "Described Emotions" - 1966
* "Sonate II" for organ - 1985
* "Sonate III-IV" for organ - 1986
* "Megasonata" for piano - 1994
* "Organ fantasia (24 movs.)" for organ - 2003
* "Fantasie Impromptu" for piano - 2004
* "Grand Sonata" for piano solo and electronic media - 2006

Solo pieces

* "Sonate" for violin solo - 1955
* "Negative" for flute solo - 1960
* "Construction" for vibraphone solo - 1962
* "Euterpe" for oboe solo - 1984
* "Espedozione" for trombone solo - 2000
* "Per Violino Solo" - 2002
* "Raccontino" for marimba solo - 2005

Opera

* "Monodrama, no. 113" - 1968

External links

* [http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_schaeffer_boguslaw Bogusław Schaeffer at culture.pl]
* [http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/composer/schaeffer.html Bogusław Schaeffer at the Polish Music Center]
* [http://www.ariadne.at/?artist_id=209&language=en work by Bogusław Schaeffer]