Feliks Nowowiejski

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Feliks Nowowiejski (February 7, 1877 – January 18, 1946) was a Polish composer, conductor, concert organist, and music teacher. Nowowiejski was born in Wartenburg (Barczewo) in East Prussia, German Empire. He died in Poznań, Poland.

His best-known compositions include:

• March, Pod sztandarem pokoju (Under the Banner of Peace, 1898, awarded a prize in London).
• Oratorio, Powrót syna marnotrawnego (The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1902, awarded the Giacomo Meyerbeer Prize).
• Overture, Swaty polskie (Polish Courtship, 1903, awarded the Ludwig van Beethoven Prize).
• Oratorio, Zanaleziene Świętego Krzyża (The Discovery of the Holy Cross, with the famous Pace Domine, 1906).
• Oratorio, Quo vadis (1907).
• Song, Rota (1910).
• Opera, Emigranci (The Emigrants, 1917).
• Opera, Legenda Bałtyku (The Legend of the Baltic, 1924)
• Orchestral symphonies
• Piano Concerto
• Cello Concerto
• 9 organ symphonies op. 45 (ca. 1929-31)
• 4 organ concertos op. 56 (ca. 1930-40)
• In Paradisum, the organ poem, op. 61 (1941)

See also

• List of Polish composers

External links

• Free scores by Feliks Nowowiejski in the International Music Score Library Project