Fluctuating tone colours and tensions – piano chamber music by Eugeniusz Knapik
Journal Title: Notes Muzyczny - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
Eugeniusz Knapik is a composer, pianist and teacher. He was born on 9 July 1951 in Kochłowice. In the period of 1970–76 he studied composition under Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, as well as piano playing in the class of Czesław Stańczyk at the State Higher School of Music in Katowice. As a chamber musician he was a partner of the Silesian Quartet, and more. Between 2002 and 2010 he was Rector of the Academy of Music in Katowice. My element is the endless phrase, which follows the aim I planned – hence the lack of pulse and clear divisions. The counterpoint diversity, i.e., the multiplied texture, is what brings the effect of fluid narration without sharp cuts. You cannot touch any point, music constantly changes. We constantly have fluctuating tone colours and tensions. This quotation from Eugeniusz Knapik comes from the authors authorized conversation with the composer about his chamber music (April 2011, at the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź). In his piano chamber works Knapik evokes the ideas of planning, uses changeable textures, many shades of spanned dynamic scale, changeable tempos, articulation, polyrhythmic systems, ostinato figures, cadence fragments, and wide phrases with classical slurs. The emotional colouring in his music comes from dissonant, atonal harmonics, which often, together with the development of a piece, goes towards the primal tonality of the major-minor system. The superior idea fulfilled in the sounds of Knapik’s music is the ceaseless stimulation of the world of values, which makes existence meaningful, arouses beauty in ourselves and our lives, and makes us sensitive to arts through emotions. The article includes a short guide to Knapik’s piano chamber music pieces, as well as examples of harmonies and marks of certain freedom, the careful realization of which causes that the listener does not hear pulsing or internal metre groups but he gives in to the musical wave, which carries him.<br/><br/>
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Radosław Stefański
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