Editing Mieczysław Karłowicz (section)

==Career==
[[File:Mieczysław Karłowicz.jpg|thumb|Karłowicz in 1910]]

Karłowicz's music is of a late [[Romantic music|Romantic]] character. He was a great admirer of [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]] whose [[Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky)|Symphony No. 6]] he praised. Tchaikovsky's influence can be heard in Karłowicz's earlier works, most notably the E minor symphony and the Violin Concerto. Like most of the late Romantics he also fell under the considerable influence of [[Richard Wagner]], especially with ''[[Tristan und Isolde]]''. Nevertheless, he managed to develop an original musical language expressed in harmony and orchestration, the latter of which he mastered like few other composers and wrote some of the most colourful orchestral music ever found. {{According to whom|date=October 2020}}

Among his works are a [[Symphony in E minor (Karłowicz)|Symphony in E minor (''Rebirth'', Op. 7)]], a Violin Concerto in A major (Op. 8), incidental music to a play ''The White Dove'', and six [[tone poem]]s, which include ''The Returning Waves'', ''Eternal Songs'', ''[[Lithuanian Rhapsody]]'', ''Stanisław i Anna Oświecimowie'', ''[[Smutna opowieść]]'', and ''Epizod na maskaradzie''.  The Violin Concerto was written for and dedicated to his former teacher [[Stanisław Barcewicz]], who premiered the work under Karłowicz's baton in Berlin on 21 March 1903 with the [[Berlin Philharmonic]].<ref>[https://archive.today/20130416101356/http://www.culture.pl/web/english/resources-music-full-page/-/eo_event_asset_publisher/eAN5/content/mieczyslaw-karlowicz-violin-concerto-in-a-major Culture.pl]</ref>

He also wrote a number of songs for voice and piano, setting words by [[Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer]], [[Adam Asnyk]], and others. Much of the rest of his small output was lost during [[World War II]]. Karłowicz spent much of his later life in [[Zakopane]] in southern Poland, often enjoying one of his favorite hobbies, [[photography]], in the nearby mountain scenery. Karłowicz died at the age of 32 in an [[avalanche]] while [[skiing]] on an excursion in the [[Tatra Mountains]] in 1909.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Śmierć Mieczysława Karłowicza pod Kościelcem |url=http://portaltatrzanski.pl/wiedza/historia/smierc-mieczyslawa-karlowicza-pod-koscielcem,1900 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191110181432/https://portaltatrzanski.pl/wiedza/historia/smierc-mieczyslawa-karlowicza-pod-koscielcem,1900 |archive-date=2019-11-10 |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=portaltatrzanski.pl |language=pl}}</ref> He was buried at [[Warsaw]]'s [[Powązki Cemetery]].

The [[Szczecin Philharmonic]] bears the name of Mieczysław Karłowicz as a recognition of the composer's musical legacy.