Roman Palester

Roman Palester

Roman Palester (December 28, 1907 - August 25, 1989) was a Polish composer of classical music. Palester composed his most significant work during the 1960s, and in 1964 was the first Polish musician to be awarded the Alfred Jurzykowski Prize." [http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_palester_roman Profiles: Roman Palester] ". Adam Mickiewicz Institute. Retrieved on 12 May, 2007.] His work was individual in style, and not noticeably Polish in character. [Stevens, Bernard. "Czechoslovakia and Poland". European Music in the Twentieth Century, 1957. (London) Routledge. p.316]

Palester was born in Śniatyń, Poland, in 1907. At age seven he began to learn to play the piano and by twelve was studying at the Music Institute in Kraków. In 1925, he began to study art history at Warsaw University. Palester graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory with a degree in music theory and composition in 1931, having studied under Kazimierz Sikorski." [http://www.polmic.pl/osopis.php?lang=en&id=23&pop=kompozytorzy&pf=%A0&cf=%A0&nf=composers Palester Roman] ". Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej. Retrieved on 12 May, 2007.] His first recognition came in 1932 when his "Psalm V for baritone, choir and orchestra" was awarded first place in the "Competition of the Singers’ Societies Association ".

Palester travelled extensively during his life and lived for times in Warsaw, Paris, and Munich. He was outspoken on political matters and during the Second World War was briefly imprisoned in Warsaw's Pawiak prison. However, his reputation recovered, and by the late 1940s, he was widely regarded as one of Poland's greatest living composers, alongside Grażyna Bacewicz and Andrzej Panufnik. While in Munich, Palester worked for Radio Free Europe, as the head of its Polish culture department and as the presenter of a series entitled "Music Abolishes the Frontiers". Both the station's acutely anti-communist stance and his own refusal to adopt the principles of Socialist Realism lead to Palester being exiled from Poland, and the communist officials expunged both his name and scores from official publications and prohibited public performances of his work. He continued to compose abroad, and from the mid 1950s Palester experimented with twelve-tone serialism. In 1963, he completed what has been described as his greatest work, "Śmierć Don Juana" ("Don Juan’s Death"). [Gołąb, Maciej. " [http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/PMJ/issue/6.1.03/Golab.html The First Polish Composer of Twelve-Tone Music] ". "Polish Music Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1, Summer 2003. Retrieved on 15 May, 2007.]

Although his compositions were highly regarded across Europe, it was not until the late 1970s that the Polish Composers' Union lifted the censorship ban on his work. In recent years, Palester’s music has largely fallen from the public view, in part due to his emigration to France early in his life. He remains highly regarded amongst specialists, but to date no revival of his work has caught the mainstream imagination. In 1999, Zofia Helman wrote a monograph on his work in an attempt to restore Palester's position as a significant modern Polish composer. Describing Palester's individuality, Helman wrote that he stood as an example of "new compositional thinking, different not only from the musical production of the early 1950s that was burdened by Socialist Realist ideology, but also from the autonomous Neoclassical current that remained dominant among Polish composers". [Helman, Zofia (1999). "Roman Palester - An Artist and His Work". (Kraków) Musica Iagellonica.]

elected works

* "Psalm V", Baritone, Mixed choir and Orchestra, 1931.
* "Symphony No. 1", Orchestra, 1935.
* "Don Juan’s Death", Orchestra, 1963.
* "Concerto for Viola and Orchestra", 1978.
* "Hymnus pro gratiarum actione", Children’s choir, Mixed choir, and Instrumental ensemble, 1979.
* "Letters to My Mother", Cantata for baritone and Orchestra, 1987.

References

External links

* [http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_palester_roman Brief overview]


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