Marian Sawa
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Marian Sawa was a Polish
composer
, organist
, improviser, musicologist, and pedagogue.
Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland in Feliks Rączkowski's organ class and Kazimierz Sikorski
's composition class.
As a pedagogue he has worked in Warsaw music education at the higher and academic level: J.Elsner Music School, K.Szymanowski Music School, F. Chopin Music Academy and Kardynal Stefan Wyszynski University (theoretical and practical musicology).
He has toured as a soloist and an accompanist around the country and abroad.
He has recorded many LPs and CDs for such companies as Polskie Nagrania, Polskie Nagrania Edition, Veriton, Polonia Records, Arston, DUX, Acte Preable.
He is a laureate of many composition prizes, for example, First Prize at the Young Composers Competition ZKP(for Assemblage for orchestra) as well as civil prizes and distinctions (the prizes of the Ministry of Culture and Art, Ministry of National Education).
He was a well-known and prolific organ composer (i.e. 5 organ concerts, sonata
s, fantasies, preludies, toccata
s, passacaglies).
Many of his works evolved from a religious inspiration, including numerous pieces for a mixed choir and a men choir a cappella
, but also great cantata-oratorio forms ( Via Crucis, Missa Claramontana, few forms of Magnificat and Stabat Mater).
In his music he often recalled gregorian chant
, polish church songs and polish folklor, sometimes combining them in one piece.
Marian Sawa's works has been registered on over 40 Cds by, for example, Acte Preable or Musica Sacra Edition.
His organ compositions were performed by Andrzej Chorosiński, Joachim Grubich, Marietta Kruzel Sosnowska, Józef Serafin, Jan Szypowski, Irena Wisełka-Cieślar.
In 2006, on the first anniversary of Marian Sawa's death, there has been a Marian Sawa's Society created, which main goal is the promotion of artist's works, publishing his works as well as organizing concerts and festivals dedicated to his creative activity.
After Marian Sawa's death the owners of his works are Aleksandra and Radosław Sawa, who cooperate with the Marian Sawa's Society.
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, organist
Organist
An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumental soloists...
, improviser, musicologist, and pedagogue.
Biography
He graduated from the Fryderyk ChopinFrédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland in Feliks Rączkowski's organ class and Kazimierz Sikorski
Kazimierz Sikorski
Kazimierz Sikorski was a Polish composer.-Biography:Sikorski studied in Warsaw, first music at the Warsaw Conservatory and then philosophy at the University of Warsaw. He then studied in Lwów, which was Polish at the time, and Paris. In 1926, he became a teacher of composition at the Conservatory...
's composition class.
As a pedagogue he has worked in Warsaw music education at the higher and academic level: J.Elsner Music School, K.Szymanowski Music School, F. Chopin Music Academy and Kardynal Stefan Wyszynski University (theoretical and practical musicology).
He has toured as a soloist and an accompanist around the country and abroad.
He has recorded many LPs and CDs for such companies as Polskie Nagrania, Polskie Nagrania Edition, Veriton, Polonia Records, Arston, DUX, Acte Preable.
He is a laureate of many composition prizes, for example, First Prize at the Young Composers Competition ZKP(for Assemblage for orchestra) as well as civil prizes and distinctions (the prizes of the Ministry of Culture and Art, Ministry of National Education).
Compositions
Marian Sawa has composed around 1,000 pieces, including instrumental, vocal and vocal-instrumental works.He was a well-known and prolific organ composer (i.e. 5 organ concerts, sonata
Sonata
Sonata , in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata , a piece sung. The term, being vague, naturally evolved through the history of music, designating a variety of forms prior to the Classical era...
s, fantasies, preludies, toccata
Toccata
Toccata is a virtuoso piece of music typically for a keyboard or plucked string instrument featuring fast-moving, lightly fingered or otherwise virtuosic passages or sections, with or without imitative or fugal interludes, generally emphasizing the dexterity of the performer's fingers...
s, passacaglies).
Many of his works evolved from a religious inspiration, including numerous pieces for a mixed choir and a men choir a cappella
A cappella
A cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...
, but also great cantata-oratorio forms ( Via Crucis, Missa Claramontana, few forms of Magnificat and Stabat Mater).
In his music he often recalled gregorian chant
Gregorian chant
Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic liturgical music within Western Christianity that accompanied the celebration of Mass and other ritual services...
, polish church songs and polish folklor, sometimes combining them in one piece.
Marian Sawa's works has been registered on over 40 Cds by, for example, Acte Preable or Musica Sacra Edition.
His organ compositions were performed by Andrzej Chorosiński, Joachim Grubich, Marietta Kruzel Sosnowska, Józef Serafin, Jan Szypowski, Irena Wisełka-Cieślar.
In 2006, on the first anniversary of Marian Sawa's death, there has been a Marian Sawa's Society created, which main goal is the promotion of artist's works, publishing his works as well as organizing concerts and festivals dedicated to his creative activity.
After Marian Sawa's death the owners of his works are Aleksandra and Radosław Sawa, who cooperate with the Marian Sawa's Society.