Poland South-East

Birthplace of the violin virtuoso and composer Henryk Wieniawski, °1835, and of his less known brother Joseph, a distinguished pianist and composer, °1837. Henryk’s showy but brilliant violin music is still popular. In the building also the Wieniawski Society and the local music school.

A monument of Henryk Wieniawski stands in front of the Lublin concert hall, named after him. The photo from 2005 shows the statue in a depot, being cleaned and waiting for its erection on its present location.

Birthplace of the composer LudomirMichał Rogowski, °1881. He traveled and worked in several countries and was inspired by local folk music. His application of distinctive modal patterns is interesting. In 1926 he settled in Dubrovnik (Croatia), where he died in 1954.

Chopin visited TytusWoyciechowski in 1830. From the estate only some rests are left but in the park is a Chopin monument.

Beautiful organ from 1620 with 2 manuals, pedal and 36 stops.

Promenade with busts of personalities from 20^th century culture. With regard to music: the Polish composers Paderewski, Szymanowski, Bacewics, Lutosławski and Penderecki, but also the Russians Strawinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and the rough bard Vladimir Vysotsky and finally Gershwin and Jimi Hendrix. A remarkable anthology!

Organ by StanisławStudziński and Jan Glowiński,1680-1723. There are three separate parts, three organists can play simultaneously. The main instrument at the west side has 3 manuals/ 40 stops, the north- and south organs resp. 2/21 and 1/13. Regular organ recitals.

In the magnificent castle yearly music festival in May. Folk music festival in the autumn.

The visitor at the shore of the river Bug can get a glimpse of the Ukrainian village of Ustilug. There was the parental home of Yekaterina Nosenko, the first wife of Stravinsky. The composer spent the summer months of 1908-14 there; several of his early works were written in Ustilug. The house is a music school now and since 1994 also a Stravinsky museum ─ the only one in the world for the greatest 20^th century composer… Address: Vulytsya Stravinskogo 3. Access from Poland across the bridge is possible but proved in 2006 to be extremely time-consuming, so that the author, alas, had to give up his visit.

Birthplace of the composer Krzysztof Penderecki, °1933. The house is extant – now a bank – and there is a plaque. Penderecki was the youngest among the Polish avant-garde at the end of the 1950s and aroused sensation with adventurous sound effects. In his later works he turned more towards tradition.

From 1976 until his death in 2022, Penderecki lived in this restored manor with park and arboretum. International academy of music since 2013 - Festival.

A melancholy trumpet signal, the Heinał, is played every hour from the left tower of St. Mary’s church into the four wind directions. Firemen are responsible for the performance, day and night. It remembers theattack by Tatars in 1241, as the musician, warning the citizens, was hit in the middle of the melody; hence the open end.During nearly eight centuries the Heinałhas sounded, except in 1939 – forbidden by the Germans.

The gothicCollegium Majus belongs to the Jagiełło University, where Copernicus studied. In the Sala Zielona is Chopin’s Pleyel piano which he used during his Scottish tour, with signature and date (15.II.1848). He himself had visited the building in 1829; entry in the visitor’s book.

Building from 1931 by the architect JósefPokutyński. Concert hall with 693 seats, two smaller halls. Organ by Klais (1996) sharply contrasting with the neoclassicist interior.

The Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra was established in 1909.

Opera and ballet theatre, opened in 2008 after the design of Romuald Loegler. Already in 2009, several corrections had to be made. In any case, it is a strikingly modern building.

The Jewish quarter of Kazimierz is perhaps Europe’s best place to hear liveKlezmer music, particularlyin the restaurants and café’s around Nowy place.

Grave of Polands greatest composer after Chopin, Karol Szymanowski, † 1937, in the crypt of this church.

Karol Szymanowski spent his holidays from 1922 onwards mostly in the this village in the Tatra mountains. In 1932 he gave up his directorship of the Warsaw Conservatorium and settled in his own house in Zakopane, a wooden villa that he habituated until his death in 1937. Today it is a rich museum with the original furniture and countless memorabilia of the composer.

This palace was the Polish pied-à-terre of Jan Ignacy Paderewski from 1897 until 1903. He then lived in Morges (Switzerland). It is a Paderewski centre today; concerts are given.