Krzysztof Meyer
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Krzysztof Meyer - Hörspiel von "COSMO Radio po polsku"
Meyer willingly refers to tradition, hoping for listeners to understand his playing with the past. Sometimes he imitates other composers' music, sometimes elements taken from old music are interwoven into his own style. Thus, in his work we can observe the stylization of Baroque music (Concerto retro), pastiches in Mozart’s style (Symphony in D major) and in the style of Shostakovich (the final part of the opera Gracze [The Gamblers]). He wrote a piece as if hypothetically written by Shostakovich (the String Quartet ‘Au delà d'une absence՚) and deconstructed Boccherini’s music, embellishing it with elements of instrumental theatre (Caro Luigi).
Being a well-educated theoretician of music, he has commented on music for many years. From Meyer’s many published articles and books about music, the most important are the monographs of the composers who played a great role in his life: Dmitri Shostakovich and Witold Lutosławski.
Danuta Gwizdalanka, September 2015
Initially, the main publisher of his music was the State Music Publishing House (PWM) in Krakow. Currently, his work is published by Musikverlag Hans Sikorski in Hamburg and Pro viva in Munich (► Krzysztof Meyer).
Catalogue of works:
OPERA
- Cyberiada [The Cyberiad] – a fantastic comic opera in three acts, Op. 15. The libretto is written by the composer based on the stories of Stanisław Lem (1967-1970).
- Gracze [The Gamblers] – a completed version of the opera by Dmitri Shostakovich based on Nikolai Gogol’s comedy drama, Op. 53 (1980-1981).
- Klonowi bracia [The Maple Brothers] – A children's opera in two acts. The libretto is written by the composer and based on the play by Yevgeny Schwarz, Op. 72 (1988-1989)
BALLET
- Hrabina [The Countness]. A ballet in one act, based on Stanislaw Moniuszko's opera, op. 49 (1980).
