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Mirecki, Franciszek

Symphony in C minor

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 Franciszek Mirecki – Symphony in C minor (1855)

(b. Cracow, 31 March 1791 – d. Cracow, 29 May 1862)

Franciszek Mirecki was born into a Cracovian musicians’ family and made his public debut as a pianist in sonatas by Haydn and Beethoven at the age of nine. He lived in Vienna from 1714 to 1716 where he studied with Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) and became familiar with Ludwig van Beethoven. In 1816-17, he stayed in Venice and studied the Italian style. In late 1817, he arrived in Paris where Luigi Cherubini supported him with the new harmonisation of 50 psalms by Benedetto Marcello that made Mirecki’s name well-known among his contemporaries. In 1822, he moved to Milan and succeeded as a composer of ballets and operas. Thereupon he was engaged as musical director of the San Carlo Theater in Lisbon where he worked until the death of King Joåo VI (1767-1826). Travelling to England and Paris, he finally arrived at Genova where he married and worked as a singing teacher for twelve years. In 1838, Mirecki was appointed director of the newly established Dramatic Singing School in his birth town Cracow. He became a famous teacher and trained many excellent singers until his death. Mirecki composed his only Symphony in 1855 for Mannheim. It was finally released in first print by the Warsaw publisher PWM in 1972. The present edition is a faithful reprint of the PWM full score. The first movement in C minor, the final movement in C major. The middle movements are in the major-third-related keys of S-flat major and E major. The metronome markings are taken from the original manuscript score.

In Mirecki’s time his contemporaries, in their nationalism based on inferiority complexes, accused his music because of what they felt as a lack of national character. In view of all the influences he absorbed during his many journeys this is not astonishing and hasn’t left any negative effect on his music. In the appendix the reader may find the reprint of the most substantial biographical tribute to Mirecki written in German by Constantin von Wurzbach (1818-93) in volume 18 of his 60-volume ’Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich’ (Biographical Dictionary of the Austrian Empire) that was published by the ’Kaiserlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei’ in Vienna in 1868.

CS, March 2018

For performance material please contact the music publisher PWM, Warschau (pwm.com).

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