Emil Młynarski

Emil Szymon Młynarski (; 18 July 18705 April 1935) was a Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue.

Life Młynarski was born in Kibarty (Kybartai), Russian Empire, now in Lithuania. He studied violin with Leopold Auer and composition with Anatoly Lyadov and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He was the founding conductor of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and subsequently served as principal conductor of the Scottish Orchestra in Glasgow from 1910 to 1916. He conducted the premiere of Karol Szymanowski's opera King Roger.

He composed, among other things, a symphony dedicated to his homeland (Symphony in F major, Op. 14, Polonia), and two violin concertos (1897, 1917). The latter concerto, in D major, Op. 16, has been recorded by Konstanty Kulka and Nigel Kennedy.

Emil Młynarski died in Warsaw at age 64. His daughter Wanda married Wiktor Łabuński. His daughter Aniela (Nela, Nelly) married Mieczysław Munz and later Arthur Rubinstein. He is the grandfather of John Rubinstein and the great-grandfather of Michael Weston, both American actors. He is closely related to the famous Polish poet and singer Wojciech Młynarski (1941–2017) and his daughter Agata Młynarska (born 1965), a Polish celebrity TV journalist.

Among his students were Pyotr Stolyarsky (the teacher of David Oistrakh), Paul Kochanski, Alexander Zhitomirsky, Paul Kletzki, and Wiktor Łabuński.

Selected works

Sortable list of compositions categorized by genre, opus number, date of composition, titles, and scoring

GenreOpusDatePolish title (Original title)English titleScoringNotes Piano 1 Kartka z albumu Album Leaf (Feuille d'album) for piano Piano 3 Romans Romance (Romanza) for piano Chamber music 4 1892–1893 Trzy utwory 3 Pieces (Trois morceaux) for violin (or cello) and piano published 1892 Piano 5 Trzy utwory 3 Pieces (Trois morceaux) for piano Chamber music 6 1893 Trzy utwory 3 Pieces (Trois morceaux) for violin and piano Chamber music 7 Dwa mazury 2 Mazurkas (2 Mazurs) for violin and piano Vocal Schlaf ein for voice and piano published 1892; words by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben Vocal Ambrosische Nacht E-dur for voice and piano Piano before 1895 Sonata na fortepian Sonata for piano Concertante 11 c.1897 Koncert skrzypcowy d-moll Concerto in D minor for violin and orchestra published 1899; dedicated to Leopold Auer Stage c.1898 Ligia Ligia Opera after Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo vadis; unfinished Stage c.1900 In vino veritas In vino veritas Opera; unfinished Orchestral 14 1910 Symfonia F-dur "Polonia" Symphony in F major "Polonia" for orchestra published 1911 Stage 1913 Noc letnia Summer Night Opera Vocal c.1915 Orły do lotu Fly Up, Eagles for voice and orchestra Concertante 16 c.1916 Koncert skrzypcowy D-dur Concerto in D major for violin and orchestra Choral c.1916 Ej chłopie polski Hey, the Polish Peasant Cantata-Ballade Orchestral Melodie dawniejsze Old Melodies for orchestra Vocal Piosenka o Komendancie Song of the Commander for voice and piano Vocal 1924 Pasterz do Zosi The Shepherd and Zosia for voice and piano words by Kazimierz Brodziński Orchestral 1925 Fanfary uroczyste Solemn Fanfares for orchestra Orchestral Kołysanka Lullaby for orchestra