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Karol Maciej Szymanowski ((:ˌkarɔl ˌmat͡ɕɛj ʂɨmaˈnɔfskʲi); 6 October 188229 March 1937) was a Polish composer and pianist, the most celebrated Polish composer of the early 20th century. He is considered a member of the late 19th-/early 20th-century modernist movement Young Poland. The early works show the influence of the late Romantic German school as well as the early works of Alexander Scriabin, as exemplified by his Étude Op. 4 No. 3 and his first two symphonies. Later, he developed an impressionistic and partially atonal style, represented by such works as the Third Symphony and his Violin Concerto No. 1. His third period was influenced by the folk music of the Polish Górale region, including the ballet ''Harnasie'', the Fourth Symphony, and his sets of Mazurkas for piano. He was awarded the highest national honors, including the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland and other distinctions, both Polish and foreign.〔 ==Life== Szymanowski was born into the Korwin-Szymanowscy family, members of the wealthy land-owning Polish gentry class, in the village of Tymoszówka, then in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Tymoshivka in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine). He studied music privately with his father before enrolling at the Gustav Neuhaus Elisavetgrad School of Music in 1892. From 1901 he attended the State Conservatory in Warsaw, of which he was later director from 1926 until retiring in 1930. Since musical opportunities in Russian-occupied Poland were quite limited, he travelled throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and the United States. Being lame in one knee made him unsuitable for military service in World War I. His travels, especially those to the Mediterranean area, provided much inspiration to the composer and esthete. These were voyages of self-discovery. Arthur Rubenstein found Szymanowski different when they met in Paris in 1921: "Karol had changed; I had already begun to be aware of it before the war when a wealthy friend and admirer of his invited him twice to visit Sicily. After his return he raved about Sicily, especially Taormina. 'There,' he said, 'I saw a few young men bathing who could be models for Antinous. I couldn't take my eyes off them.' Now he was a confirmed homosexual. He told me all this with burning eyes."〔Arthur Rubenstein, ''My Many Years'' (London, 1980), 103〕 In 1918, Szymanowski completed the manuscript of a two-volume novel, ''Efebos'', which took Greek love as its subject. To avoid embarrassing his mother, Szymanowski planned to publish the novel only after her death, but she outlived him, dying in 1937. Szymanowski's distant cousin and friend Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz held the manuscript and arranged for a passage to be included in a March 1939 radio broadcast in Poland.〔Hubert Kennedy, "Karol Szymanowski, his Boy-love Novel, and the Boy he Loved", ''Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia'', vol. 3 no. 3 (issue 11) (Amsterdam, 1994), 26-33; (available online ), accessed March 12, 2015. Kennedy includes a summary of "The Symposium".〕 The manuscript was lost in a fire in September 1939 during the siege of Warsaw. The only part that survives is the central chapter, "The Symposium", which Szymanowski translated into Russian and gave as a gift to Boris Kochno, who became his love interest when they met in the spring of 1919. That chapter was discovered among Kochno's papers in 1981 and published in a German translation in 1993 along with Szymanowski's preface to the novel and a related passage from Iwaszkiewicz's memoirs. In the preface, he explained that he wanted "to let the shining light of truth penetrate where only dark shadows and the poisonous viper-hissing of hate-sowing derision reigned."〔 He also wrote that his novel depicts "the history of a gradual liberation from various types of traditional, inherited slavery by an increasingly clear mirage of true freedom of the soul".〔Stephen Downes, "Eros and Paneuropeanism", in Harry White and Michael Murphy, eds., ''Musical Constructions of Nationalism: Essays on the History and Ideology of European Musical Cultute, 1800-1945'' (Cork University Press, 2001), 51-71, esp. 52, 66-7〕〔The surviving chapter of ''Efebos'' appears in a German translation as ''Das Gastmahl. Ein Kapitel aus dem verlorenen Roman Ephebos''.〕 Szymanowski also dedicated several love poems he wrote in French about the same time to the 15-year-old Kochno.〔Stephen Downes, ''Szymanowski. Eroticism and the voices of Mythology'' (Royal Music Association, 2003), "Royal musical association monographs" vol. 11, 38-40〕 Of his works created or first imagined, like ''King Roger'', during the years 1917 to 1921, both musical and literary, one critic has written: "we have a body of work representing a dazzling personal synthesis of cultural references, crossing the boundaries of nation, race and gender to from an affirmative belief in an international society of the future based on the artistic freedom granted by Eros."〔 Szymanowski settled in Warsaw in 1919 after the Bolshevik Revolution. In 1926 he accepted the position of Director of the Warsaw Conservatory though he had little administrative experience. He became seriously ill in 1928 and temporarily lost his post. He was diagnosed with an acute form of tuberculosis, and in 1929 traveled to Davos, Switzerland, for medical treatment. Szymanowski resumed his position at the Conservatory in 1930, but the school was closed two years later by a ministerial decision. He moved to Villa Atma in Zakopane where he composed fervently. In 1936 Szymanowski received more treatment at a sanatorium in Grasse, which was no longer effective. He died at a sanatorium in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 29 March 1937. His body was brought back to Poland by his sister Stanisława and laid to rest at Skałka in Kraków, the "national Panthéon" for the most distinguished Poles. Szymanowski's long correspondence with the pianist Jan Smeterlin, who was a significant champion of his piano works, was published in 1969.〔〔Boguslaw Maciejewski and Felix Aprahamian, eds., ''Karol Szymanowski and Jan Smeterlin: Correspondence and Essays''. Allegro Press, 1969〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Karol Szymanowski」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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