Jerzy Gablenz Mélodies vol 3 Sygula Gryniewicki Kaczorowski Mikolon - AP0454

On 11th November 1937, during a cloudy and rainy afternoon, a small passenger airplane took off from the airport in Czyzyny (near Kraków), heading towards Warsaw. While reaching its goal, the pilot was informed that the Okecie airport (in Warsaw) was occupied and he couldn’t land there. He circled for a while, then received the command to go back to Kraków, and then later on was told to change his course once again, this time to Poznan. The atmospheric conditions rapidly declined and with dusk coming, the low-flying airplane hit a high voltage pole near Piaseczno (near to Warsaw) and crashed. This tragedy, ended after 49 years, the life of Jerzy Gablenz, a renown Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue – born on January 23rd 1888 in Kraków, son of Regina and Wiktor. The youngster grew up in a house filled with music – his grandfather learned to play the violin at the Vienna Conservatory, and later on was the director of the Kraków’s Conservatory. The young man had favourable conditions to help develop his interest for music. He studied under the lead of Wladyslaw Zelenski and Feliks Nowowiejski, achieving expertise of the piano, organ, flute and cello, all of which influenced his work. In 1907 he met his future wife, a talented pianist, Malgorzata Schoenówna, and soon after he composed the first pieces he deemed successful – the Songs op. 3 for soprano and piano, and the Two Terzettos op. 4 for female voices, to the words of Leopold Staff.