Constantin Regamey

Constantin Regamey (28 January 1907 – 27 December 1982) was a philologist, orientalist, musician, composer, and critic. He was a significant presence among intellectual and artistic circles in Warsaw during the 1930s and later a professor at the Universities of Lausanne and Fribourg.

Biography

Born in Kiev of Swiss and Polish ancestry, at the age of 13 Regamey moved to Warsaw, where he studied piano with Józef Turczyński and music theory with Felicjan Szopski. In 1931, he received a degree from the University of Warsaw in oriental and classical philology. He became a lecturer there in 1936. In 1937 he married Anna Janina Kucharska, a student of Romance Philology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. From 1937 to 1939, he edited the magazine Muzyka Polska and was very active as a music critic. Regamey died in 1982, four years after his retirement.

Selected works

Persian Songs [version III] for bass-baritone and chamber orchestra (1942); Quintet for clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello and piano (1942-1944); String Quartet No 1 (1948) Adam Mickiewicz: homme et poète. Lausanne: Université de Lausanne, 1949; Buddhistische Philosophie. Bern: Francke, 1950; Musikschaffen und Musikleben in Polen. Köln: Osteuropa-Handbuch, 1959. Der Buddhismus Indiens. Aschaffenburg: Pattloch, 1964; Lila. Double Concerto for violin, cello and small orchestra (1976); The Bhadramāyākāravyākaraṇa: introduction, Tibetan text, translation, and notes. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1990. The Question of Primitive Buddhism in the Closing Works of Stanislaw Schayer. The Eastern Buddhist, New Series, Vol. 48, No. 1 (2017), p. 23-47.