The history of Polish music presents its remarkable variety of genres and composers. See for yourself.

1. History of
Polish music

2. History
The history of Polish music includes the
period from the Middle Ages to modern
times.

3. The Middle ages
The first composition in Polish is a
wedding song „o Chmielu Chmielu”

4. Bogurodzica – first anthem
This is the first written Polish religious song and
it was composed in 14th century.
For several centuries it was the national anthem
and was sang during ceremonies of
state, church, and before great battles.

5. https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=ZgtTapXGWX
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The Middle Ages lyrics

6. Polish music in Renaissance
Polish composers played an
important role in the
Renaissance of European
culture.
The most significant composers
of the Renaissance ("The Golden
Age of Polish culture") are:
Mikołaj Gomółka, Wacław z
Szamotuł, Marcin Leopolita and
Jakub Polak.

7. Baroque
Baroque music is the style of Western art
music composed from approximately 1600 to
1750. This era follows the Renaissance and
was followed in turn by the Classical era.

8. The Flute Concert of
Sanssouci by Adolph von Menzel.
https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=P67POIA6
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9. Opera
Baroque music expanded the
size, range, and complexity of
instrumental performance, and also
established opera as a musical genre

10. Classicism
Classicism in music included years from 1760 to
1820. The main presumption of this movement
was balance between baroque and romantic.
Classics resigned the Baroque polyphony. The
main role belonged to instrumental music.
Classical composers created forms such as:
sonata, rondo and string concert. Classicism in
Polish music was represented by Maria
Szymanowska and Maciej Kamienski.

11. Maria Szymanowska
Maria Szymanowska was a Polish
composer, who lived and composed during
Classicism.
She wrote many pieces for piano, including
etudes, nocturnes, waltzes, polonaises, mazurka
s. She is known for her many remarkable pieces
of music, which became symbols of the Polish
classicism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0e8q9MHqTQ

12. Romanticism in Poland
Romanticism in Poland was a literary, artistic and intellectual period in the
evolution of Polish culture that began around 1820, coinciding with the
publication of Adam Mickiewicz's first poems in 1822. It ended with the
suppression of the January 1863 Uprising against the Russian Empire, in
1864. The latter event ushered in a new era in Polish culture known as
the Positivism.
Polish Romanticism, unlike Romanticism elsewhere in Europe, was not
limited to literary and artistic concerns. Due to specific Polish historical
circumstances, notably the partitions of Poland, it was also an
ideological, philosophical and political movement that expressed the
ideals and way of life of a large portion of the Polish social elite.

13. Polish Romantic musicians
Romantic ideas formed not only literature but also
music.
The music of Fryderyk Chopin and Stanislaw
Moniuszko inspired the development of the Polish
Romantic movement in all fields of creativity.

14. Fryderyk Chopin
Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin
was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is
widely considered one of the greatest Romantic piano
composers. Chopin was born in Zelazowa Wola, a
village in the Duchy of Warsaw. A renowned child
prodigy, he grew up in Warsaw and completed his
music education there; he composed many of his
mature works in Warsaw before leaving Poland in 1830
at age of 20, shortly before the November 1830
Uprising.
He composed : mazurkas; etudes; preludes; nocturnes;
waltzes; polonaises; rondos; ballades; impromptus;
piano sonatas, etc.

15. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxz6QZlsAIo

16. Stanisław
Moniuszko
Stanisław Moniuszko was
a Polish composer, conductor and teacher active
during the foreign partitions of Poland. His output
includes many popular art songs and operas, and
his musical style is filled with patriotic folk themes of
the peoples of the former Polish –Lithuania
Commonwealth (predominantly Polish and
Belarusian). He is generally referred to as the father
of Polish national opera.

17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIjiT0IS_PI

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