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Composers

Jacek Domagała

*1947

Composer, pianist and organist, b. 19 August 1947 in Szczecinek, Poland. He composes orchestral, choral, solo, and chamber works. Domagała studied composition with Witold Szalonek, piano with Olga Dąbrowska, and organ with Heinz Wunderlich. He obtained an Oscar und Vera Ritter-Stiftung scholarship (Hamburg) to attend masterclasses taught by György Ligeti. For his compositions, he has won the Boris Blacher Prize in Berlin, the Georg Muffat Prize in Salzburg, and the Ludwig van Beethoven Prize in Bonn. He currently lives and works in Berlin.
Domagała’s musical output is closely linked to the concepts of the Second Viennese School. They had a decisive impact on his individual musical language and composition technique, referred to by the composer himself as ‘neoserialism’. He uses strict notation in his scores, thereby distancing himself from aleatoricism (which he applied in some sections of his early works). Coming in contact with the Viennese modernist tradition, with its preference for serial techniques – which he views as the most important musical landmark of the twentieth century – not only resulted in an evolution of his musical language, but, most significantly, transformed the ways in which that composer shapes his musical narration and defined his type of musical expression, rooted in the post-Romantic tradition.