Stanisław Moniuszko: The Works in Context of Russian Contacts — 15 Songs to Words by Russian Poets

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10.2991/assehr.k.210813.003How to use a DOI?

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Stanisław Moniuszko, “Russian” romance, Northern Lyre, Dargomyzhsky, Cui, Bernard

Abstract

The works by Moniuszko always found warm response in Russia; Dargomyzhsky, Glinka, Cui, Serov contributed to the promotion of him. Moniuszko’s visits to St. Petersburg took place in 1842, 1849, 1856 and 1870. Not getting a job in St. Petersburg, Moniuszko, however, managed to get permission from the censorship to publish his romances. But only in 1857, 22 romances in two issues (albums) were published by Northern Lyre. Most of them are romances written earlier on poems by Polish poets translated by Benediktov. The first album of Moniuszko’s 10 romances in Polish published in Russia included Those Evening Bells to the words by Kozlov. For the second album, Moniuszko chose 12 romances based on poems by Polish poets, translated by Benediktov. One more issue “Six Romances” was published by Bernard’s publishing house in 1870 with Russian texts. In 1868 Bernard published 13 of new Moniuszko’s romances in one collection “Romances and Songs – Music by S. Moniuszko”. 12 of them were composed to words by Russian poets. Two other “Russian” romances were introduced later. In these pieces, the composer appears as a master not only of romantic vocal lyrics, developing the traditions of Schubert and Schumann, but also as a rather unexpected adherent of the Russian salon romance, which expresses deeply felt human emotions in a simple and sincere musical language.

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