Przybylski, Bronisław Kazimierz (1941-2011)
The Royal Tournament/Królewski turniej (10:00) 1977 Publisher: AA (c1981)
The White Knight/Biały Rycerz
Black Knight/Biały rycerz
Fanfare I/Fanfara I
Contest on foot/Walka piesza
Fanfare II/Fanfara II
Ladies in Waiting/Damy dworu
Fanfare III/Fanfara III
The Joust/Walka konna
Fanfare IV/Fanfara IV
Victory March/Marsz zwycięzcy
Instrumentation: flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon
This composition is written for five instruments although the full instrumentation is only used in two movements – Ladies in Waiting and Victory March. Other movements are written as duos or trios. The work is program music and the movement titles suggest their character and style. The piece is charming and would work well if there would be narration accompanying it.
There is no technical difficulty in any of the movements except the movement titled “The Joust”. Here the composer wrote a duet for flute and clarinet in which the instruments are in different meters at the same time. The key to performing this movement is to keep the eighth-note subdivisions the same in both voices. It is a very good movement to assign to young players for the rhythmical practice of playing 3 against 2 or 3 against 4.
Grade: III-IV
Recordings: none
Sheet music source: out of print
Broniław Kazimierz Przybylski
Born in Łódź on December 11, 1941 and died in Łódź on April 4, 2011.
He was a composer and teacher. He held two degrees from PWSM in Łódź, the first in music theory (1964), second in composition (1969). He completed postgraduate study in composition at Katowice with Bolesław Szabelski and at the Hochschule fur Music und darstellende Kunst in Vienna (1975-1976). From 1963 he was teaching at PWSM in Łódź, and from 1987 he was a head of the composition department. Przybylski received numerous prizes for his compositions. In 1972 and 1974 he received prizes at G. Fitelberg Competition, and at the Polish Radio and Television Composers’ Competition. In 1976 he was awarded honorable mention at the International Henryk Wieniawski Composition Competition and in 1984 another honorable mention at the UNESCO International Composers’ Rostrum in Paris.
His compositional output is rich in chamber and solo pieces, but his orchestral works are the most significant. “In these, he refers to the European symphonic tradition of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and willingly makes use of quotations functioning as symbols. A wide range of resources, from strictly diatonic to sonoristic material, or from simple structural schemes to open forms, strongly influence the wide stylistic range of his works.”(Ewa Kowalsa-Zając, Music Encyclopedia PWM, Kraków 2004)