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Antoni Wrona \u2014 a young Polish cellist currently studying at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music under the guidance of Tomasz Strahl and Marcin Zdunik\u2014was awarded the Third Prize at the 12th Witold Lutos\u0142awski International Cello Competition, held in Warsaw this past May. Accompanied by \u0141ukasz Chrz\u0119szczyk, he will perform works by Fryderyk Chopin for cello and piano: the Grand Duo Concertant<\/em> in E major on a theme from Giacomo Meyerbeer\u2019s opera “Robert le Diable,” composed in collaboration with his friend, cellist Auguste Franchomme, and the masterpiece of cello literature dedicated to that same friend, the Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65<\/em>. The program will be rounded out by Johannes Brahms’ Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99<\/em> (1886).<\/p>\n Chopin met Auguste Franchomme in Paris in the spring of 1832. Their collaboration on the Grand Duo<\/em> marked the beginning of a friendship that lasted until the end of the composer’s life. Published in 1833, the work was met with applause from the Parisian music community, and Robert Schumann himself highlighted its “grace and elegance” in his review. Despite such contemporary praise, the Grand Duo<\/em> is often considered a marginal work in Chopin\u2019s oeuvre, where his individuality is not fully expressed, and the music reflects his adept assimilation of the stereotypical techniques of the virtuosic brillante<\/em> style.<\/p>\n In contrast, the Cello Sonata in G minor<\/em>\u2014the last work published during Chopin’s lifetime (1847)\u2014is regarded very differently. Professor Mieczys\u0142aw Tomaszewski does not hesitate to call it a masterpiece of Chopin\u2019s late post-Romantic phase, heralding the music of the second half of the 19th century. Its four movements each possess a distinct character and vivid expression, yet they are unified by a common intervallic structure that integrates the entire cycle. From its first performance on February 16, 1848, in Paris, the Sonata was met with little enthusiasm or understanding. It was not until the 20th century that its significance as a musical vision of a new Chopinesque style was fully appreciated. Mieczys\u0142aw Tomaszewski, summarizing the work, wrote: \u201cComposed during difficult times for Chopin, it captivates, astonishes, and delights with its rare beauty and the wisdom\u2014both sharp and bitter\u2014that shines through its sounds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Antoni Wrona \u2014 a young Polish cellist currently studying at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music under the guidance of Tomasz Strahl and Marcin Zdunik\u2014was awarded the Third Prize at the 12th Witold Lutos\u0142awski International Cello Competition, held in Warsaw this past May. Accompanied by \u0141ukasz Chrz\u0119szczyk, he will perform works by Fryderyk Chopin for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beethoven.org.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beethoven.org.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beethoven.org.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beethoven.org.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beethoven.org.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/beethoven.org.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3903,"href":"https:\/\/beethoven.org.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions\/3903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beethoven.org.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beethoven.org.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beethoven.org.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}