Nowka, Dieter
(b Cottbus, 7 July 1924). German composer. He studied with Grabner at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin-Charlottenburg (1942–3), and from 1947 to 1952 he worked as a répétiteur and conductor in Cottbus, Stendal and Schwerin. His studies were completed in the master classes of Eisler and Max Butting at the German Akademie der Künste in Berlin (1952–4). From 1975 to 1989 he taught composition and music theory at the Hochschule für Musik Weimar, becoming a professor there in 1986. Awards made to him have included the Cottbus Carl Blechen Arts Prize and the Schwerin Fritz Reuter Arts Prize. Taking elements from dance music, he has written pieces of wide appeal. He made an intensive study of the folk music of his native district between 1952 and 1961, and since that time he has used 12-note music and aleatory elements.
WORKS
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Stage: Jan Suschka (B. Krautz), op, 1957; Eine Bauernlegende, ballet, 1958; Die Erbschaft, op, 1959–60
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Orch: Ob Conc., 1953; Sinfonietta sorbica, 1955; 2 Sorbische Ouvertüren, 1956; Cottbuser Stadtpfeifermusik, 1956; Vn Conc., 1956; Sym., 1958; Sonata, 1962; Pf Conc., 1963; Sym., 1963; Tänze aus der Lausitz, 1963; Sonata, 1964; Vn Conc., 1964; Sonata, 1965; Sonata, 1966; Variations on a Theme of Hanns Eisler, 1968; Sym., 1969; 2 sinfoniettas, 1970, 1971; Pf Conc., pf left hand, 1971; Sym., 1972; Sym., 1983
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Inst: Pf Sonata, 1953; Str Qt, 1954; Wind Qnt, 1954; Pf Sonata, 1955; Str Qt, 1956; Str Qt ‘Musik zur Jugendweihe’, 1960; Intermezzo al Oberek, tpt, pf, 1963; Sonatine, bn, pf, 1963; Sonatine, cl, pf, 1964; Wind Qnt, 1966; Divertimento, 9 insts, 1967; 7 esquisses, fl, pf, 1971; Str Qt, 1972; Wind Music, 3 tpt, 3 trbn, 1973; 3 Pieces, hpd, 1980; Str Qt, 1985
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Vocal pieces
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Principal publishers: Breitkopf & Härtel (Leipzig), Peters, Verlag Neue Musik (Berlin)
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R. Freiesleben: ‘Die erste sorbische Oper: zur bevorstehenden Uraufführung der Oper “Jan Suschka” von Bodo Krautz und Dieter Nowka in Cottbus’, MG, viii (1958), 457–9
D. Nowka: ‘Einige Gedanken zu Fragen des Heiteren in unserer neuen Musik’, Sammelbände zur Musikgeschichte der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, ii, ed. H.A. Brockhaus and K. Niemann (Berlin, 1971), 227–39
F. Schneider: Das Streichquartettschaffen in der DDR bis 1970 (Leipzig, 1980)
ECKART SCHWINGER/LARS KLINGBERG
Nowotny, Franz Nikolaus.
See Novotný, Franz Nikolaus.
Nowowiejski, Feliks
(b Wartenburg [now Barczewo, nr Olsztyn], 7 Feb 1877; d Poznań, 23 Jan 1946). Polish composer, conductor and organist. He studied in Berlin at the Stern Conservatory, at the Königliche Musikakademie (Bruch’s masterclasses), and at the university, where his teachers included Friedlaender and Bellermann. In addition he attended the Regensburg Kirchenmusikschule and took lessons with Dvořák in Prague. He won the Paderewski Prize of Bonn (1903) and the Meyerbeer Scholarship, and between 1902 and 1905 he made study tours of Europe, Asia and Africa. After a further stay in Berlin as a choirmaster and teacher (1905–9) he returned to Poland. He was director of the Kraków Music Society from 1909 to 1914, and from 1919 he taught at conservatories in Berlin and Poznań, where he was a professor of church music and organ. In 1935 he received the Polish State Music Prize.
Nowowiejski’s earliest works, among them the first two symphonies, are in a Germanic late Romantic style considerably influenced by Bruch and Dvořák. He then began to draw on newer techniques, but with evident reserve. The greatest success was enjoyed by his more eclectic pieces, such as the large-scale oratorio Quo vadis, after Sienkiewicz’s celebrated novel. First performed at Amsterdam in 1909, this work was soon repeated over 200 times in 150 cities throughout Europe and America. None of his later compositions achieved this measure of popularity, though their quality is no less. Most of his music derives from Polish folktunes. In Poland he is best known as the composer of the hymn ‘Rota’.
WORKS
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Principal publisher: PWM
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Emigranci Obieźysasy [The Emigrants] (op, 3, Z. Kollaren), op.46, 1917, unperf.; Legenda Bałtyku/Wineta [Baltic Legend] (op, 3, W. Szalay-Groele and K. Jeżewska), op.28, Poznań, Wielki, 28 Nov 1924; Malowanki ludowe [Folk Pictures] (op-ballet, 1, after folk poetry), Poznań, Wielki, 1 Dec 1928; Tatry [The Tatras]/Leluja (op-ballet, 4, E. Zegadłowicz, after folk legends), op.37, Poznań, Wielki, 27 Feb 1929; later as Król Wichrów [King of the Winds]
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Beatrice, sym. poem (after Dante), 1903; Sym. no.1, 1903, lost; Sym. no.2 ‘Symfonia kolorów’, 1904; Ellenai, sym. poem, after J. Słowacki, str, pf, 1915; Sym. no.3 (Sym. no.2 ‘Rytm i prac’ [Rhythm and work]), 1936–7; Vc Conc., 1938; Sym. no.4 (Sym. no.3); Sym. no.5 (Sym. no.4), 1940–41; Pf Conc., 1941; Legenda, vn, orch; 3 ovs.
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Oratorios: Powrót syna marnotrawnego [The Return of the Prodigal Son] (T. Rehbaum), 1901; Quo vadis (A. Jungst, after H. Sienkiewicz), 1903; Znalezienie sw. Krzyża [The Founding of the Cross] (A. Herolasek), 1905; Kościuszko (W.M. Kozłowski), 1922–4, lost
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Cantatas: Kantata o polskiej ziemi i morzu [Cant. on the Polish Earth and Sea], T, chorus, orch, 1924–5; Kantata śląska [Silesian Cant.], Bar, male vv, orch, 1923–4; many sacred cants.
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Masses: Missa pro pace, male vv, 1941; Missa ‘Stella Maria’
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Numerous other works, incl. sacred pieces, patriotic pieces, folksong arrs.
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Chbr: Str Qt; pieces for vn, pf; other duos with pf
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Org: Łatwe utwory [Easy Pieces], 1900, 1902; Méditation, E, 1911; Entrée solennelle (1922); 9 syms. (sonatas), c1931; 4 concs., 1938–41; In paradisum, poem, 1941
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Many pf pieces and songs
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F.M. and K. Nowowiejski: ‘Charakterytyka spuścizny rękopiśmiennej Feliksa Nowowiejskiego’ [Characteristics of Nowowiejski’s manuscripts], Rocznik olsztyński, ii (1959), 227–35 [incl. Eng. summary]
J. Obłąk: ‘Feliks Nowowiejski jako organista w Olsztynie’ [Nowowiejski as an organist in Olsztyn], Komunikaty mazursko-warmińskie (1961), no.2, p.182
J. Boehm: Feliks Nowowiejski: zarys biograficzny [Biographical outline] (Olsztyn, 1968, 2/1977)
F.M. and K. Nowowiejski: Dookoła kompozytora: wspomnienia o ojcu (Poznań, 1968, 2/1971)
J. Boehm, ed.: Feliks Nowowiejski: w setną rocznicę urodzin [Nowowiejski: on the occasion of the centenary of his birth] (Gdańsk, 1978) [introduction and summaries in Eng.]
M. Obst: ‘Feliks Nowowiejski kompozytor chóralny’, Zeszyty naukowe, xvii (1978), 115–29
Muzyka na Warmii i Mazurach: Olsztyn 1983–5 [incl. J. Erdman: ‘Muzyka organowa Feliksa Nowowiejskiego na tle organowej muzyki europejskiej’ [Nowowiejski's organ music against the general background of European organ music], 81–92
T. Swat: ‘Warmińskie pieśni ludowe w twórczości muzycznej Feliksa Nowowiejskiego’ [Warmie folksongs in the music of Nowowiejski], 93–8
M.A. Ankudowicz: ‘Utwory liryczne z muzyką Feliksa Nowowiejskiego w repertuarze wileńskiego chóru Echo’ [Verse settings by Nowowiejski for the Vilnius choir Echo], 117–32; B. Zakrzewska-Nikiporczyk: ‘Muzyka Feliksa Nowowiejskiego w kulturze muzycznej Poznania i Wielkopolski do 1918 roku’ [Nowowiejski in the musical life of Poznań and Greater Poland before 1918], 133–42; A. Denisiuk: ‘Koncerty Feliksa Nowowiejskiego w Bydgoszczy’ [Nowowiejski's concerts in Bydgoszcz], 143–50]
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