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1932 test recording of Syrena-Electro.
‘When the nation rises to fight’ - a hymn song, also known as „Szlachta w roku 1831” ("The Nobility in 1831"), popular in the folk and socialist circles from the mid-nineteenth century.
The poem was written in 1835, its author was Gustaw Ehrenberg. A fragment of the Variation in B-flat major Op. 2 by Fryderyk Chopin on the theme of the arias from the opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was used as a musical base. For the first time the piece was published in the collection “Sounds of the Past", 1848 in Paris. At the same time, a clandestine edition was released in Krakow.
The message of the song condemns magnates, nobility and clergy - portrayed as the perpetrators of Poland's loss of independence. The text also refers to the events of the 1831 November Uprising.
Eugeniusz MOSSAKOWSKI (1885, Warsaw - 1958, Warsaw), Polish singer - baritone.
More about the singer in the video: • "Das alte Lied" - Eug...
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