(b. 19 September 1938, Warsaw).
Polish composer of mostly stage, orchestral, chamber, and piano works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as a pianist.
Prof. Krauze studied composition with Kazimierz Sikorski and piano with Maria Wiłkomirska at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where he earned his MA in piano in 1962 and his MA in composition in 1964. He later studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in 1966–67, on a scholarship from the government of France. He received an honorary doctorate from the Universitatea Națională de Muzică București in 2013.
Among his honours are a period as a guest of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (1973–74), the Silver Cross of Merit from the government of Poland (1975), the Medal of Distinction from Jeunesses Musicales of Poland (1979), and a residency at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire (1982). He later received the Prize of the President of Polskie Radio i Telewizja (1987, for The Creation of Music [series of educational films]), the Prize of the Związek Kompozytorów Polskich – Polish Composers Union in Warsaw (1988), the Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (1989, 2005), the Chopin Gold Medal from the Fryderyk Chopin Foundation (1994), and the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland (2010). In addition, he was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1984 and Officier de l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur in 2007, both by the government of France.
As a pianist, his specialty is contemporary music. He founded the Warsztat Muzyczny – Music Workshop for contemporary music in Warsaw in 1967 and served as its artistic director and pianist from 1967–89.
He is also active in other positions. He served as a member of the répertoire committee of the festival Warszawska Jesień – Warsaw Autumn from 1970–81, as a music advisor to IRCAM in Paris in 1982–83 and as president of the Polish Society for Contemporary Music from 1980–83 and 1989–2001, as well as its vice-president from 1983–89. He served as president of the section in Poland of ISCM from 1987–90, as a member of the music council of Polskie Radio from 1993–98 and as an artistic advisor to the ambassador of France to Poland from 1995–97. He has served as president of the Witold Lutosławski Society since 2003.
He lectured at the Ferienkurse in Darmstadt in 1976 and taught as a visiting professor at Yale University in 1982 and has been an eminent corresponding professor at Keimyung University in Daegu since 1996. He has taught as Professor of Composition at the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź since 2002 and at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music since 2006. He has given masterclasses in composition and piano in Chile, China, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA.
In addition to the works listed below, he has written many film scores.
His primary publishers are PWM and Universal Edition.
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
STAGE:
The Star (chamber opera, libretto by Helmut Kajzar), 2 sopranos, 2 mezzo-sopranos, alto, tenor saxophone, trumpet, electric guitar, violin, double bass, accordion, percussion, 1981 (also version as opera in 1 act, soprano, mezzo-soprano, mixed chorus, dance troupe, orchestra, 1994 [also version for soprano, computer, 2 camera operators, 2006])
Polyeucte martyr (incidental music, play by Pierre Corneille), flute, ney (flute from the Middle East), French horn, harp, double bass, piano, tubular bells, percussion, fixed media, 1987
El Público (incidental music, play by Federico García Lorca), clarinet, trumpet, trombone, electric guitar, violin, double bass, percussion, 1988
Réveille-toi, Philadelphie (incidental music, play by François Billetdoux), clarinet, trombone, harp, guitar, violin, double bass, piano, accordion, percussion, fixed media, 1988
Operetka – Opérette (incidental music, play by Witold Gombrowicz), clarinet, trumpet, trombone, violin, double bass, piano, percussion, 1988
Macbett (incidental music, play by Eugène Ionesco), 16 mixed voices, clarinet, trombone, violin, cello, double bass, piano, upright piano, synthesizer, percussion, 1992
Balthazar (opera in 2 acts, libretto by Ryszard Peryt, after Stanisław Wyspiański), soloists, mixed chorus, orchestra, 2001
Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy (opera in 4 acts, libretto by Grzegorz Jarzyna, the composer, after Witold Gombrowicz), soloists, mixed chorus, orchestra, 2004
Merlin (incidental music, play by Tankred Dorst), 3 voices, flute, harp, percussion, string orchestra, 2005
Œdipus Rex (incidental music, play by Sophocles), 2008
L'Avare (incidental music, play by Molière), 2010
Polieukt (opera in 5 acts, libretto by Alicja Choińska, Jorge Lavelli, after Pierre Corneille), 2010
The Trap (opera in 1 act, libretto by Grzegorz Jarzyna, the composer, after Tadeusz Różewicz), 2011
ORCHESTRAL:
Piece for Orchestra No. 1, 1969
Piece for Orchestra No. 2, 1970
Voices, small orchestra (any 15 players), 1972
Folk Music, 1972
Aus aller Welt Stammende, 5 violins, 3 violas, 2 cellos, 1973
Fête galante et pastorale, 4 folk players (4 bagpipes, 4 fifes, 4 hurdy-gurdys, 4 violins), orchestra, 1975 (concert version of spatial composition)
Concerto No. 1, piano, orchestra, 1976
Suite de danses et de chansons, harpsichord, orchestra, 1977
Concerto, violin, orchestra, 1980
Tableau vivant, small orchestra, 1982
Piece for Orchestra No. 3, 1982
Arabesque, amplified piano, small orchestra, 1983
Blanc-rouge / Paysage d'un pays, large orchestra (winds, brass, mandolins, accordions, 6 percussion), 1985
Symphonie parisienne, 1986
Terra incognita, piano, 10 strings, 1994
Rhapsod, string orchestra, 1995
Concerto No. 2, piano, orchestra, 1996
Serenade, 1998
Emille Bell, string orchestra, 2000
Adieu, upright piano, orchestra, 2001
Hymn for Tolerance, 2007
The Letters, 4 pianos/2 pianos 8 hands, orchestra, 2010
Memories of the east, orchestra of instruments from China, 2012
CHAMBER MUSIC:
Wind Trio, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 1958
Prime numbers, 2 violins, 1961
String Quartet No. 1, 1965
Polychromie, clarinet, trombone, cello, piano, 1968
String Quartet No. 2, 1970
Idyll, 4 folk players (4 bagpipes, 4 fifes, 4 hurdy-gurdys, 4 violins, 16 bells), fixed media, 1974
Song, any 4–6 melody instruments, 1974
Soundscape, 4 amplified players (4 melodicas, 4 harmonicas, 8 recorders, 4 zithers, 8 sheep bells, 8 musical glasses), fixed media, 1975
Automatophone, 3 or more guitars, 3 or more mandolins, 3 or more music boxes, 1976 (concert version of spatial composition)
String Quartet No. 3, 1982
Quatuor pour la naissance, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 1984
Je préfère qu'il chante, bassoon, 1985
Rivière souterraine, amplified ensemble (clarinet, trombone, electric guitar, cello, piano, accordion, percussion), fixed media, 1987 (concert version of spatial composition)
For Alfred Schlee with admiration, string quartet, 1991
Piano Quintet, piano, string quartet, 1993
P – 53, any number of players, 1994 (collaboration with Chris Cutler, Lutz Glandien, Marie Goyette, Yoshihide Ōtomo)
Pastorale, flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, bassoon, 1995
Divertissement Silésien, string quartet, 1998
Ode, flute (+ ocarina), 2 trumpets, guitar, 3 tom-toms (1 player), 2004
Fanfare, 4 trumpets, 2007
Voices for Ljubljana, flute, clarinet, trombone, viola, cello, piano, percussion, 2007
Fields and Hills – silence, any number of players, 2009
CHORAL:
Trois Chansons (text by Claude Lefebvre), mixed chorus, 1997
Ball in the Opera (text by Julian Tuwim), mixed chorus, small orchestra (12 players), 2006
Podróż Chopina – Voyage de Chopin, mixed chorus, 2010 (also longer version for mixed chorus, folk ensemble, 2010)
VOCAL:
Malay Pantuns (texts from pantun from Malaysia), mezzo-soprano/alto, 3 flutes, 1961
Postcard from the Mountains, soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, double bass, vibraphone, 1988
La Terre (text by Yves Bonnefoy), soprano, piano, orchestra, 1995
Five Songs (text by Tadeusz Różewicz), baritone, piano, 2000
PIANO:
Three Preludes, 1956
Sonatina, 1958
Six Folk Melodies, 1958
Theme with Variations, 1958
Three Études, 1958
Five Piano Pieces, 1958
Prelude, Intermezzo, Postlude, 1958
Seven Interludes, 1958
Two Inventions, 1958
Four Dances, 1959
Monody and Fugue, 1959
Ohne Kontraste, 1960
Five Unitary Piano Pieces, 1963
Triptych, 1964
Esquisse, 1966–67
Fallingwater, 1971
Gloves Music, 1972
Stone Music, 1972
One Piano Eight Hands, upright piano 8 hands, 1973
Music Box Waltz, 1977
Ballade, 1978
From Keyboard to Score, 1987
Nightmare Tango, 1987
La Chanson du mal-aimé, 1990
Refrain, 1993
La Naissance et le Déroulement d'un rêve, 2005
ORGAN:
Diptychos, 1981
HARPSICHORD:
Commencement, 1982
Pour El, 2008
SPATIAL COMPOSITIONS:
Musical–Spatial Composition No. 1, fixed media, 1968 (collaboration with architect Teresa Kelm, sculptor Henryk Morel)
Musical–Spatial Composition No. 2, fixed media, 1970 (collaboration with architect Teresa Kelm)
Automatophone, any 15 amplified plucked instruments, 15 amplified music boxes, 1974 (also concert version for 3 or more guitars, 3 or more mandolins, 3 or more music boxes)
Fête galante et pastorale, 6 ensembles, fixed media, 1974 (also version for 5 voices, 13 ensembles [52 total players], fixed media, 1984; concert version for bagpipes, fife, hurdy-gurdy, folk violin, orchestra)
Rivière souterraine, amplified ensemble (clarinet, trombone, electric guitar, cello, piano, accordion, percussion), fixed media, 1987 (collaboration with architects Jan Muniak, Wiesław Nowak; also concert version)
Aria, 21 sound sources, 2007
ARRANGEMENT:
Blue jay way (George Harrison), piano, 1990