Broken in the Bud – Antoni Stolpe
This is the third in a series of programmes containing music from composers who died when they were young. It is titled ‘Broken in the Bud’.
This episode we feature Polish composer and pianist Antoni Stolpe. Stolpe was born in 1851 in Pulawy in eastern Poland to a musical family. His father was his first piano teacher. He was only sixteen years old when he finished his training at the Warsaw Conservatoire. A year later he played three concerts in this city, performing as a pianist and conducting his own works. He received rave reviews for it.
During his short life Stolpe wrote no fewer than 60 works. Only a few of them have also appeared on CD, notably some piano works and some chamber music. Stolpe died of tuberculosis at the age of 21 in the Italian spa town of Merano.
Playlist
Antoni Stolpe
- Piano sonata in D minor. Stefan Labanowski, piano
- Variations for string quartet. Camerata Vistula
- Dramatic scene for cello en strings. Anna Wróbel, cello; Camerata Vistula
- Allegro in C minor ‘Appassionato’. Stefan Labanowski, piano
