Ludomir Różycki

Ludomir Różycki studied at Chopin University of Music. Training under Zygmunt Noskowski is recorded. The recorded working language is Polish. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera and symphony. Employment is recorded with Lviv Conservatory and Chopin University of Music. Distinctions recorded are Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature, Gold Cross of Merit, Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta and Work Flag Order, 1st class.

He was a son of a professor at the Warsaw Conservatory, where he studied piano and composition. He completed his studies with distinction, and then continued his studies in Berlin at the Academy of Music under Engelbert Humperdinck. He began his musical career as a conductor of opera and professor of piano in Lwów in 1907. It was while in Lwów that he began to compose. Subsequently, he moved to Warsaw but had to flee during the Warsaw Uprising. After the war, he lived and taught in Katowice.

Różycki's ballet Pan Twardowski (1920) was the first Polish large-scale ballet to be performed abroad, being seen in Copenhagen, Prague, Brno, Zagreb, Belgrade and Vienna, and being performed over 800 times in Warsaw. His eight operas included Casanova and Eros i Psyche (Eros and Psyche, to the libretto of Jerzy Żuławski), the latter having its world premiere in Wrocław in 1917. All his solo piano works have been recorded on three CDs by Valentina Seferinova, and issued on the Polish Acte Préalable label (catalogue reference AP 0263, AP 0438, AP 0580) as world premiere recordings. Hyperion Records have released recordings of his two piano concertos, his piano quintet and his string quartet. In 1944 Różycki began writing a violin concerto but had to leave the manuscript buried in his garden when he fled Warsaw. Discovered years later by construction workers, the score ended up in the archives of the National Library of Poland. Violinist Janusz Wawrowski later restored the work, performed the premiere in 2018, and released a recording in 2021.