Oskar Kolberg
Encyclopedia
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
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Life
He was born in PrzysuchaPrzysucha
Przysucha is a town in Poland. Located in the Masovian Voivodeship, about 100 km southwest of Warsaw, it is the capital of Przysucha County. It has 6,762 inhabitants . Its name in Yiddish is פשיסחא or פשיסכא . It was home to a number of prominent Hasidic Rabbis, such as The Holy Jew and...
, the son of Juliusz Kolberg, a professor at Warsaw University, and Fryderyka Mercoeur. His family's acquaintances included Samuel Linde
Samuel Linde
Samuel Bogumił Linde was a linguist, librarian, and lexicographer of the Polish language. He was director of the Prussian-founded Warsaw Lyceum during its existence , and an important figure of the Polish Enlightenment.-Life:Samuel Gottlieb Linde was born in Toruń, Royal Prussia, a province of the...
, Mikołaj Chopin (father of Frederic Chopin
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
), and Kazimierz Brodziński
Kazimierz Brodzinski
Kazimierz Brodziński was an important Polish Romantic poet.- Life :He was born in Królówka near Bochnia. He came from the low nobility. He was a student at schools in Tarnów, where he also graduated from the grammar school. He served in the army of the Duchy of Warsaw...
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He is best known for his work titled Lud (re-published as Dzieła Wszystkie), a compilation of folk traditions from all the Polish regions. Between 1857–1890 he published 33 volumes and after his death a further 3 volumes were published. The compilation contains 12,000 folk songs, 1250 podań, 670 fairy tales, 2700 proverbs, 350 riddles, 15 ludowych widowisk and many other ethnographic documents.
Kolberg also compiled some ethnographic information on neighboring regions. He died in Kraków
Kraków
Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...
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Works
- Pieśni ludu polskiego - vol. 1 (Supplement vol. 70)
- SandomierskieSandomierzSandomierz is a city in south-eastern Poland with 25,714 inhabitants . Situated in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship , previously in Tarnobrzeg Voivodeship . It is the capital of Sandomierz County . Sandomierz is known for its Old Town, a major tourist attraction...
- vol. 2 (Supplement vol. 71) - Kujawy - vol. 3, 4 (Supplement in vol. 72)
- KrakowskieKrakówKraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...
– vol. 5 – 8 (Supplement part I in Vol. 73) - PoznańskiePoznanPoznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...
- vol. 9 – 15 (Supplement vol. 74) - LubelskieLublinLublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river...
- vol. 16, 17 (Supplement vol. 75) - KieleckieKielceKielce ) is a city in central Poland with 204,891 inhabitants . It is also the capital city of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship since 1999, previously in Kielce Voivodeship...
– vol. 18, 19 (Supplement vol. 76) - RadomskieRadomRadom is a city in central Poland with 223,397 inhabitants . It is located on the Mleczna River in the Masovian Voivodeship , having previously been the capital of Radom Voivodeship ; 100 km south of Poland's capital, Warsaw.It is home to the biennial Radom Air Show, the largest and...
– vol. 20, 21 (Supplement part I of vol. 77) - Łęczyckie - vol. 22 (Supplement vol. 78)
- KaliskieKaliszKalisz is a city in central Poland with 106,857 inhabitants , the capital city of the Kalisz Region. Situated on the Prosna river in the southeastern part of the Greater Poland Voivodeship, the city forms a conurbation with the nearby towns of Ostrów Wielkopolski and Nowe Skalmierzyce...
- vol. 23 (Supplement vol. 79) - Mazowsze – vol. 24–28, 41-42 (Supplement vol. 80)
- PokuciePokuttyaPokuttya or Pokuttia is a historical area of East-Central Europe, between upper Prut and Cheremosh rivers, in modern Ukraine. Historically it was a culturally distinct area inhabitated by Ukrainians and Romanians on the previously unpopulated borderlands between the lands of Lviv and Halych...
– vol. 29–33 (Supplement vol. 81) - Chełmskie - part II of vol. 34 (Supplement vol. 82)
- PrzemyskiePrzemysl CountyPrzemyśl County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998...
- vol. 35 (Supplement vol. 83) - Wołyń - vol. 36 (Supplement vol. 84)
- Miscellanea - vol. 37 - 38
- PomorzePomeraniaPomerania is a historical region on the south shore of the Baltic Sea. Divided between Germany and Poland, it stretches roughly from the Recknitz River near Stralsund in the West, via the Oder River delta near Szczecin, to the mouth of the Vistula River near Gdańsk in the East...
- vol. 39 - Mazury PruskieMasuriaMasuria is an area in northeastern Poland famous for its 2,000 lakes. Geographically, Masuria is part of two adjacent lakeland districts, the Masurian Lake District and the Iława Lake District...
- vol. 40 - ŚląskSilesiaSilesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland, with smaller parts also in the Czech Republic, and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. Silesia's largest city and historical capital is Wrocław...
- vol. 43 - GóryGoralsThe Gorale are a group of indigenous people found along southern Poland, northern Slovakia, and in the region of Cieszyn Silesia in the Czech Republic...
i Podgórze - vol. 44, 45 - KaliskieKaliszKalisz is a city in central Poland with 106,857 inhabitants , the capital city of the Kalisz Region. Situated on the Prosna river in the southeastern part of the Greater Poland Voivodeship, the city forms a conurbation with the nearby towns of Ostrów Wielkopolski and Nowe Skalmierzyce...
i SieradzkieSieradzSieradz is a town on the Warta river in central Poland with 44,326 inhabitants . It is situated in the Łódź Voivodship , but was previously the eponymous capital of the Sieradz Voivodship , and historically one of the minor duchies in Greater Poland.It is one of the oldest towns in Poland,...
- vol. 46 - PodolePodoliaThe region of Podolia is an historical region in the west-central and south-west portions of present-day Ukraine, corresponding to Khmelnytskyi Oblast and Vinnytsia Oblast. Northern Transnistria, in Moldova, is also a part of Podolia...
- vol. 47 - TarnowskieTarnówTarnów is a city in southeastern Poland with 115,341 inhabitants as of June 2009. The city has been situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999, but from 1975 to 1998 it was the capital of the Tarnów Voivodeship. It is a major rail junction, located on the strategic east-west connection...
-RzeszowskieRzeszówRzeszów is a city in southeastern Poland with a population of 179,455 in 2010. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River, in the heartland of the Sandomierska Valley...
- vol. 48 - SanockieSanokSanok is a town in south-eastern Poland with 39,110 inhabitants, as of 2 June 2009. It's the capital of Sanok County in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship. Previously, it was in the Krosno Voivodeship and in the Ruthenian Voivodeship , which was part of the Lesser Poland province...
-KrośnieńskieKrosnoKrosno is a town and county in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland with 47,455 inhabitants, as of 2 June 2009.Notably Krosno is the site of the first oil well in the world....
- vol. 49-51 - Białoruś-Polesie - vol. 52
- Litwa - vol. 53
- Ruś Karpacka - vol. 54, 55
- Ruś Czerwona - vol. 56, 57
- Materiały do etnografii Słowian wschodnich - vol. 58
- Materiały do etnografii Słowian zachodnich i południowych cz.I Łużyce - vol. 59/I
- Materiały do etnografii Słowian zachodnich i południowych cz.II Czechy, Słowacja - vol. 59/II
- Materiały do etnografii Słowian zachodnich i południowych cz.III Słowiańszczyzna południowa - vol. 59/III
- Przysłowia - vol. 60
- Pisma muzyczne - vol. 61-62
- Studia, rozprawy i artykuły - vol. 63
- Korespondencja Oskara Kolberga - vol. 64-66
- Pieśni i melodie ludowe w opracowaniu fortepianowym - vol. 67
- Kompozycje wokalno-instrumentalne - vol. 68
- Kompozycje fortepianowe - vol. 69
- Biografia Oskara Kolberga - vol. 85
- Indeksy - vol. 86