Ludomir Różycki

Ludomir Różycki was born in Warsaw on September 18th, 1883. Różycki was part of the Young Poland (Młoda Polska) movement, which was a modernist movement that sought to invigorate the musical culture of Poland. Composers belonging to the movement, such as Mieczysław Karłowicz, and Karol Szymanowski, were almost exclusively taught by Zygmunt Noskowski and were strongly influenced by neoromanticism, decadence, impressionism, and symbolism. Różycki was the son of a professor at the Warsaw Conservatory, where he also studied prior to studying under Engelbert Humperdinck at the Berlin Academy of Music. Różycki began composing while working as an opera conductor and piano professor in Lviv in 1907. His ballet, Pan Twardowski, was the first large-scale Polish ballet to be performed abroad and he wrote over eight operas.

Several of his unpublished manuscripts burnt down with his home in Warsaw, while others only partially survived because they were buried in the garden and worked to reproduce his lost works (primarily operas) after being granted living and working quarters in Katowice in 1945.

Works featured in our catalog include:

Title of Work	Poet
Kiedy odejdę w dal	Tadeusz Miciński