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Roman Statkowski: Dumka, Op.9 No.3

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2017 · Music

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#3 from '3 Piècettes polonaises', Op.9
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Phillip Sear plays a dumka (effectively a melancholic musical ballad) by the Polish composer Roman Statkowski (1859–1925).
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Statkowski was a late convert to a musical profession, having started as a lawyer.  He studied in Warsaw, and at the St. Petersburg conservatory, graduating at the age of 31.  He returned to Poland, and became professor of composition at the Warsaw conservatory in 1909.  Statkowski is best known as an opera composer—his opera 'Maria' has been on the fringes of the repertoire in Poland, and was staged at the Wexford Festival in Ireland in 2011 (its first staging outside Poland).  This piece comes from the early 1890s (I believe, as his Op. 12 was published in 1893).  The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music defines the dumka as "a type of instrumental music involving sudden changes from melancholy to exuberance", and it is usually in duple time.  It is a popular form in the Slavic countries, and seems to have originated in Ukraine.  The best-known (extended) piano solo dumka is Tchaikovsky's.

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