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Unlike most other mineteenth-century Italian opera composers (with the notable exeption of Rossini), the vast catalogue of Gaetano Donizetti's (1797-1848) composition includes a large number of works scored for orchestra and chamber groups. Most of these pieces were composed between 1816 and 1821 - the five-year period, that is, during which the Lombard composer was perfecting the musical education begun in his native Bergamo and making his first attempts at operatic composition. The composition of Etude for B-flat clarinet dates from this period - from 1821, to be precise. It was dedicated to a clarinetist with whom we are unfamiliar but whom the autograph manuscript, housed in the Donizetti Museum at Bergamo designates as <>. Compositions for clarinet were quite rare in the instrumental literature of the time, and not anly in Italy. Taking into consideration the date of composition as well as vartious other compositional analogies, we have cause to believe that Nicoló Paganini's Etude for solo clarinet, published by Giovani Ricordi the year before, i.e. in 1820, served as the model for Donizetti's piece. The composition of Etude is also reminiscent of Paganini's Capricci, in its aim to archive technical virtuosity not as an end in itself but imbued, on the contrary, with an articulated and coberent musical content.

Mikołaj Górceki was born in 1971. In 1990 he started to study composition at the Academy of Music in Katowice under Henryk Mikołaj Górecki. In 1995 he graduated from his studies with distinction and a year later wa granted a double scholarship by The Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. In 2000 he received a doctor's degree in composition at Indiana University in Bloomington in the United States. In 2001 - 2002 he lectured at the McGill University in Montreal. At present he is living and working in the USA.

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Transfiguracje (Górecki Mikołaj)

PWm Edition in Cracow, acting as a publishing firm responsible for the promotion fo Polish compositional output, has promoted a composition competition for young composers. The competition is named after Tadeusz Ochlewski (1894 - 1975_, the founder of PWM Edition and a great friend of young composers.

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Wariacje na temat Pewnego Odrodzenia (Ptach Paula)
Wołanie w ciszę (Błońska Alina)