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Shirin Goudarzi-Tobin, The piano music of Karol Szymanowski
General specialism: Musicology
Abstract:
This dissertation considers the piano music of the great Polish composer Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) and examines its stylistic diversity and its sources.
Five chapters make up the principal part of the dissertation. The first is a biography that surveys his life and his rank and position within the framework of Polish music history. The remaining chapters comprise a study of his piano music. Chapter Two illistrates the similarity between Szymanowski's early piano miniatures and Chopin and Scriabin's short pieces. The influence of the late-Romantic Austro/German composers and Szymanowski's efforts at composing works in extended forms have been examined in Chapter Three. Chapter Four surveys the maturing of Szymanowski's personal style and his embracing of Impressionism, and Chapter Five deals with works that were inspired by folk music and his efforts in trying to establish a modern Polish style. The Summary traces his progressive endeavours in further expanding the structural possibilities of the classical sonata-form.
Four appendices provide a list of Szymanowski's works for piano, a bibliography, a discography of his piano music and abstract.
Shirin Goudarzi-Tobin, The piano music of Karol Szymanowski
MA, NUI Maynooth, 2000
General specialism: Musicology
Abstract:
This dissertation considers the piano music of the great Polish composer Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) and examines its stylistic diversity and its sources.
Five chapters make up the principal part of the dissertation. The first is a biography that surveys his life and his rank and position within the framework of Polish music history. The remaining chapters comprise a study of his piano music. Chapter Two illistrates the similarity between Szymanowski's early piano miniatures and Chopin and Scriabin's short pieces. The influence of the late-Romantic Austro/German composers and Szymanowski's efforts at composing works in extended forms have been examined in Chapter Three. Chapter Four surveys the maturing of Szymanowski's personal style and his embracing of Impressionism, and Chapter Five deals with works that were inspired by folk music and his efforts in trying to establish a modern Polish style. The Summary traces his progressive endeavours in further expanding the structural possibilities of the classical sonata-form.
Four appendices provide a list of Szymanowski's works for piano, a bibliography, a discography of his piano music and abstract.
Thesis submission ID 707