On the brink of fame… the Lviv years of Ludomir Różycki

Abstract

Ludomir Różycki lived in Lviv in 1908–1912, immediately after graduating from music studies in Berlin. He worked there as a piano teacher at the conservatory as well as conductor at the opera theater. It was a very important period in the biography of the young composer, which marked the beginning of his international career. It was there, in February 1909, that the premiere of Różycki’s first opera – a musical drama Bolesław Śmiały – took place. Other valuable works by this composer were created then, as above all the second opera Medusa and the symphonic poems Anhelli and King Kofetua. The description of all the above-mentioned works can also be found in this article.