• Source: Boleslaw Szczeniowski

Boleslaw Szczeniowski (20 July 1898 – 1985) was a Canadian aeronautical engineer and composer of Polish descent. A graduate of the school of engineering at Lviv Polytechnic, Szczeniowski made a living as an engineer in Montréal. He published two books: Theory of the siphon jet (published by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1955) and Theoretical analysis of combustion gases (Montreal, 1946).
As a composer and musician, Szczeniowski was largely self-taught. He composed a significant amount of vocal music and works for solo piano and a small amount of chamber music.




Compositions






= Symphonic

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Rustic Dance




= Vocal music

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1954 The rainbow, - text: Marja Konopnicka
1954 Will-o'the wisp, - text: Hanna Gross
1955 Entends tu…/ Do you hear…, text: Mario Gross
1955 Les tenebres/Dusk, - text: Mario Gross
1955 Mon chant, - text: Mario Gress
1955 Poranek/Morning, - text: Marja Konopnicka
1956 Poeme, - text: Marc Gelinas
1956 Little Jack Horner
1958 La lune dans l'eau, - textt: Wilfrid Lemoine
1958 Le petit lapin de la lune, - text: Cecile Duchene
1958 Pierrot, - text: Wilfrid Lemoine
1959 A poor young Sheppard - text: Paul Verlaine
1959 Un grand sommeil noir, - text: Paul Verlaine
1960 The house of the hill, - text: Edwin Arlington Robinson
1961 Song for the rainy season, - text: Elizabeth Bishop
1977 To the dog howling in the middle of the street, - text: Kazimierz Wierzynski
Ashes - text: Kazimierz Wierzynski
A door is closing - text: Hanna Gross
A la clair fountaine
A little love story/Un petit amour - text: Beata Obertynska
Chanson des ivrognes, slow-boggie - text: Mario Gross
Le ciel est par-dessus, text: Paul Verlaine
Drinking song
Fall, tekst: Hanna Gross
Gra w lisa, Foxy - text: Marja Konopnicka
Je voulais te dire
Little rain, text: Marja Konopnicka
Popiot, Ashes-Cendres - text: Kazimierz Wierzynski
Rues desertes/Deserted streets, - text: Mario Gross
To sleep, darling/Oj, usnij, - text: Marja Konopnicka
Swialton, light-lumiere - text: Kazimierz Wierzynski
Vision/Wizja, - text: Marja Konopnicka
What lips my lips have kissed, - text: Edna St. Vincent Millay
What should I sing you/A co wam spiewac, - text: Marja Konopnicka
Winter ballad - text: Hanna Gross




= Chamber music

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String Quartet No. 1 (1956)
String Quartet No. 2 (1962)




= Piano works

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1976 The Gentle Wind
Seven Etudes
For seconds - Allegro
For thirds - Allegro
For fourths - Andante
For fifths - Andantino
For sixths - Allegretto
For sevenths - Andante
For octaves - Largo
Pieces
Prélude
Rite sauvage
L'aube au Lac Noir
Le caribou mourant
Thème russe
Thème ibérique
Promenade aux chutes Darwin
Le vent
Le ruisseau
Le moulin
Labourage
Songe
La pluie
Automne
Une fontaine
Une prière
La course
Le retour
Une barque
La nuit
Thème polonais
Le renard
Berceuse
Berceau
Les hirondelles
Été




Sources


Ronald Napier: A Guide to Canada's composers, Willowdale, Ontario: Avondale Press, 1973, p. 50
Storm Bull: Index to biographies of contemporary composers - Vol. II, Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1974, 567 p.

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