„Dziady ogromne zrobiły wrażenie na Lwowie…” O sukcesach Stani- sława Moniuszki w stolicy Galicji

Abstrakt

Lviv was the first Polish city after Warsaw in which Moniuszko’s music gained the greatest popularity. Karol Mikuli – the director of the Galician Music Society, who in 1868 acknowledged Moniuszko as an honorary member of this organization, and since then insisted on performing his works in the capital of Galicia, contributed to this popularity to a large extent. In March 1860, the Flis opera premiered at the Polish Theater, and was enthusiastically received by the audience and critics. The composer’s journey to Lviv, on which he went with his daughter Elżbieta in February 1865, brought also many successes.

At that time, Moniuszko conducted three concerts at which the overture The Fairy Tale (Bajka) and the cantata The Phantoms (Widma), based on the second part of Adam Mickiewicz’s Forefathers’ Eve, were performed. Another important testimony to the reception of the composer’s work was the exhibition of the four-act version of Halka, which premiered on March 17, 1867.

The article contains a wide discussion of these events in the light of rich source material, mainly in the field of epistolography and music criticism.