1. Feliks Nowowiejski was a Polish composer, conductor, concert organist, and music teacher.
18 Facts About Feliks Nowowiejski
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Feliks Nowowiejski's father was Franz Adam Nowowiejski, a Pole born in 1830 in Wartenburg in Warmia.
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Franz Adam Feliks Nowowiejski was a master tailor with his own workshop in Wartenburg, where he managed a public library of Polish books.
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Feliks Nowowiejski's mother, nee Katharina Falk, born in 1847, was the second wife of Franz Adam Nowowiejski; she was a German from the neighboring village of Butryny.
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In 1883 Feliks Nowowiejski became a pupil at the elementary school in Wartenburg at the rectory of St Anne's Church.
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In 1893 Feliks Nowowiejski became a violinist in the orchestra of the Prussian Regiment of Grenadiers, a development that enabled him to support his parents and siblings.
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Feliks Nowowiejski then composed works for military bands and amateur orchestras.
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Feliks Nowowiejski subsequently studied at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, learning theory and counterpoint under Ludwig Bussler, composition under Wilhelm Taubert, and Gradus ad Parnassum under Heinrich Bellerman, simultaneously perfecting his organ playing under Otto Dienel and playing in the orchestra under the baton of Gustav Hollaender.
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Feliks Nowowiejski became a composition teacher and choir director at St Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin, and later at the Dominican Church of St Paul.
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In 1909 Feliks Nowowiejski returned to Poland, and settled in Krakow, where he served as director of the Krakow Music Society.
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Feliks Nowowiejski was organist and director of the Warsaw Symphony.
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Rota was a patriotic poem protesting Germanisation that Feliks Nowowiejski had set to music.
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In March 1911, Feliks Nowowiejski married the Wawel music student Elzbieta Mironow-Mirocka.
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The couple had five children, a daughter Wanda and four sons: Feliks, Kazimierz, Adam and Jan In 1914, Nowowiejski won the Lwow Music Prize for his choral work Danae.
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Feliks Nowowiejski came under military service, swore an oath to Emperor Wilhelm II, and served as a conductor to a military orchestra.
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Thereupon Feliks Nowowiejski fell into obscurity in Germany as his music was no longer performed.
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Feliks Nowowiejski received the title of papal chamberlain from Pope Pius XI for his many religious works.
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Feliks Nowowiejski had briefly been detained under suspicion of spying for Russia.