Published: 12.02.2026 10.02.2026

Around the Young Poland Song Inspired by Tetmajer’s Poetry

Anna Al-Araj ORCID

Abstract

 The article analyses the stylistic features of Young Poland art song in its verbal, musical, and verbal-musical dimensions, based on selected vocal miniatures by Mieczysław Karłowicz, Karol Szymanowski (Six Songs, Op. 2), and Henryk Opieński (Preludes, Op. 13), composed to texts by Kazimierz Tetmajer. The aim of the study is to identify the constitutive characteristics of Polish art song at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and to examine their relationship to the Romantic tradition and musical modernism. The analysis is based on an original selection of works and on the concept of Romantic song markers proposed by Mieczysław Tomaszewski. The findings indicate that the songs of Karłowicz and Opieński largely preserve the Romantic model of word–music relations, enriched by elements of new sound colouration, whereas Szymanowski’s early songs reveal more advanced modernist tendencies, particularly in terms of texture and the hierarchy between the vocal and instrumental parts.

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Young Poland song, art song, word–music relations, musical modernism, Mieczysław Karłowicz, Karol Szymanowski, Kazimierz Tetmajer

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Around the Young Poland Song Inspired by Tetmajer’s Poetry. (2026). Edukacja Muzyczna (Musical Education) , 20, 101-132. https://doi.org/10.16926/

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Around the Young Poland Song Inspired by Tetmajer’s Poetry. (2026). Edukacja Muzyczna (Musical Education) , 20, 101-132. https://doi.org/10.16926/

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