13-600: Regamey or Régamey is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Constantin Regamey (1907–1982), Swiss philologist, orientalist, musician, composer, and critic Fabienne Regamey (born 1952), Swiss fencer Marcel Regamey (1905–1982), Swiss essayist and journalist Maurice Régamey (1924–2009), Polish-born French actor and film director Robert-Henri Regamey (1907–1978), Swiss physician and microbiologist [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
26-673: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Constantin Regamey Constantin Regamey (28 January 1907 – 27 December 1982) was a philologist, orientalist , musician, composer, and critic. He was a significant presence among intellectual and artistic circles in Warsaw during the 1930s and later a professor at the Universities of Lausanne and Fribourg. Born in Kiev of Swiss and Polish ancestry, at
39-588: Is the oldest festival for contemporary music in the world. In 1913, the Donaueschingen Society of Friends of Music was founded under the auspices of the House of Fürstenberg . The idea soon arose to establish a small festival for presenting young and promising artists. A committee of distinguished musicians, among them Ferruccio Busoni , Joseph Haas , Hans Pfitzner , Arthur Nikisch and Richard Strauss , met in 1921 to discuss possible formats for
52-410: The surname Regamey . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Regamey&oldid=992650223 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
65-718: The Swabian-Alemannic region'. After the war, the Society of Friends of Music was able to re-establish the festival under the name Donaueschingen Festival of Contemporary Music . A cooperative agreement between the Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden and its orchestra shifted the program emphasis to larger orchestral works. In 1951, Olivier Messiaen and his student Pierre Boulez offered new compositions, along with older works by Hindemith and Béla Bartók . In 1972,
78-669: The University of Lausanne. He also taught linguistics at the University of Fribourg beginning in 1946. During this time he delivered lectures abroad in India and Egypt and published books and articles on oriental philology and Buddhist philosophy. He continued to compose, many of his works being premiered by the Swiss conductor Paul Sacher . His works were also performed at the Donaueschingen Festival . From 1963 to 1968 he
91-595: The age of 13 Regamey moved to Warsaw, where he studied piano with Józef Turczyński and music theory with Felicjan Szopski. In 1931, he received a degree from the University of Warsaw in oriental and classical philology. He became a lecturer there in 1936. In 1937 he married Anna Janina Kucharska - a student of Romance Philology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków . From 1937 to 1939, he edited
104-578: The event. The first concert was presented just a few months later. On 31 July 1921 the Donaueschingen Chamber Music Performances for the advancement of contemporary music ( Donaueschinger Kammermusikaufführungen zur Förderung zeitgenössischer Tonkunst ) gave world premiere performances of music by Alois Hába , Ernst Krenek and Paul Hindemith . Three years later, guest composers included Arnold Schoenberg , Anton Webern , and Josef Matthias Hauer , who were among
117-468: The festival relocated to Baden-Baden . During the years 1931–1933, 1935, 1940–1945, and 1948–1949, all concerts were cancelled due to the overall national and international political situation . Instead of the original chamber music series, the National-Socialist party organized its own concerts from 1933 to 1935, called 'Donaueschingen Musical Celebration' or 'Old and new chamber-music from
130-682: The magazine Muzyka Polska and was very active as a music critic. Regamey remained in Poland during the Second World War. Under the pseudonym Czesław Drogowski, he engaged with underground resistance organizations as a courier in the Army. During the war he continued to be active in the musical life of Warsaw, playing in bars and cafes and participating in the International Society for Contemporary Music . He also taught himself
143-535: The main representatives of the Viennese twelve-tone technique . In 1925, the festival's scope expanded from presenting only chamber music to include choral works; one year later, the offerings included music for wind orchestra. With experimental forms of music and art such as Oskar Schlemmer 's 'Triadic Ballet', the festival encompassed an increasingly wide range of activities and became more and more attractive to avant-garde composers and performers alike. In 1927,
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#1732772894143156-638: The principles of composition and began composing seriously in 1942. He later studied composition formally with Kazimierz Sikorski . In 1944 he completed a quintet for clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello and piano that was admired by Witold Lutosławski . Regamey utilizes twelve-tone technique in this piece, among the first composers in Poland to do so. Following the defeat of the Warsaw Uprising in October 1944, he moved to Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1945, he became professor of Slavic and Oriental languages at
169-663: Was President of the Schweizerische Tonkünstlerverein. Regamey died in 1982, four years after his retirement. Donaueschingen Festival The Donaueschingen Festival , or more precisely Donaueschingen Music Days (German: Donaueschinger Musiktage ), is a three-day October event presenting new music in the town of the same name, where the Danube River starts, at the edge of the Black Forest in southern Germany . Founded in 1921, it
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