Mlynarski, Emil (Simon)
Mlynarski, Emil (Simon)
Mlynarski, Emil (Simon), Polish violinist, conductor, and composer; b. Kibarty, July 18, 1870; d. Warsaw, April 5, 1935. He studied at the St. Petersburg Cons. (1880–89), taking up both the violin, with Leopold Auer, and piano, with Anton Rubinstein; also took a course in composition with Liadov. He embarked on a career as a conductor. In 1897 he was appointed principal conductor of the Warsaw Opera, and concurrently conducted the concerts of the Warsaw Phil. (1901–05); from 1904 to 1907 he was director of the Warsaw Cons. He achieved considerable success as a conductor in Scotland, where he was principal conductor of the Scottish Orch. in Glasgow (1910–16). Returning to Warsaw, he was director of the Opera (1918–29) and Cons. (1919–22). After teaching conducting at the Curtis Inst. of Music in Philadelphia (1929–31), he returned to Warsaw. He composed an opera, Noc letnia (Summer Night; 1914; Warsaw, March 29, 1924), Sym., Polonia (1910), 2 violin concertos (1897, Paderewski prize; 1914–17), and violin pieces.
Bibliography
A. Wach, Zycie i twórczość Emila M. ego (Life and Works of E. M; diss., Univ. of Kraków, 1953); J. Mechanisz, E. M.: W setną rocznicę urodzin (1870–1970) (Warsaw, 1970).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire