Tadeusz Baird
Tadeusz Baird ( born July 26, 1928 in Warszawa, † September 2, 1981 in Warsaw) was a Polish composer.
Life
Baird met privately in 1934 and 1940 to 1944 piano with Tadeusz Witulski in Warsaw. At the State Music School he received lessons in music theory with Boleslaw Woytowicz and Kazimierz Sikorski. He was also informed by the composer Bolesław Szabelski and Kazimierz Rytel. After the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 he was arrested by the Nazis and imprisoned in the camps Soest and Gladbeck near Münster. 1945 freed him the British, who took him to a military hospital in Hagen. In 1946 he returned to Poland.
He studied from 1947 to 1951 composition with Piotr Rytel and Piotr Perkowski at the State Music Academy in Warsaw. In addition, he studied from 1948 to 1951 musicology at the University of Warsaw. In 1949 he founded together with Kazimierz Serocki and Jan Krenz, the group 49, which sought to music according to the state doctrine of socialist realism. In 1956, he was with Serocki the founders of the Warsaw Autumn, a major festival of contemporary music. Since 1974 he has taught at the State Academy of Music and in 1977 professor of composition. His students include Paweł Szymański, Krzysztof Knittel, Elżbieta Sikora and Thomas Böttger. In 1976 he was President of the Polish Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music. In 1978 he was Korrespontierendes member of the Music Section of the Academy of Arts in Berlin (East).
The personal language of the composer is characterized by intensity in the lyric. In works since about 1956 Baird proven musical microstructures along the lines of Anton Webern. But you are always characterized by very strong expressiveness, since it mainly along the lines of Alban Berg turned to.
He is buried in the cemetery in Warsaw Powązki.
Prizes and awards
Works
- Sinfonietta, 1949
- Piano Concerto, 1949
- I Sonatina for Piano, 1949
- Sonatina II for piano, 1952
- Symphony No. 1, 1950, National Award 1951
- Colas Breugnon: a Suite in the Old Style for string orchestra and flute, 1951
- Symphony No. 2 Quasi una fantasia, 1952
- Little Suite for Children for piano, 1952
- Concerto for Orchestra, 1953
- Divertimento for Flute, Clarinet, Oboe and Bassoon, 1956
- Cassation for orchestra, 1956
- Four Love Sonnets for baritone and orchestra on texts by William Shakespeare, 1956
- Espressioni Varianti for Violin and Orchestra, 1959
- Four Essays, 1958, UNESCO Prize 1959
- Exhortation for speaking voice and orchestra, 1960
- Adult for soprano and orchestra on texts by Małgorzata Hilar, 1960-61
- Epiphany Music, 1963
- Four Dialogues for oboe and chamber orchestra, 1964 UNESCO Prize 1966
- Four songs for mezzo- soprano and chamber orchestra based on texts by Vesna Parun, 1966
- Morning Musical Drama by Joseph Conrad, 1966
- Four Noveletten for chamber orchestra, 1967
- Sinfonia Breve, 1968
- Five Songs for mezzo-soprano and six instruments on texts by Halina Poświatowska, 1968, National Award 1970
- Symphony No. 3, 1969, National Award 1970
- Goethe 's letters: cantata for baritone for mixed choir and orchestra on texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Charlotte von Stein, 1970
- String Quartet, 1971
- Game for string quartet, 1971
- Psychodrama, 1972
- Elegia, 1973
- Oboenkoncert, 1973
- Lugubre Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, 1975
- Scenes for Cello, Harp and Orchestra, 1977
- Canzona, 1980
- Voices from afar ( glosy z oddali ) for baritone and symphony orchestra to texts by Iwaszkiewicz, 1981