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Polish poet
Stefan Witwicki, ca. 1831
Stefan Witwicki (September 13, 1801 – April 15, 1847) was a Polish poet of the
Romantic period.
From 1822 Witwicki worked in the
Congress Poland's Government Commission on Religions and Education (Komisja Rządowa Wyznań i Oświaty).
In 1832 he emigrated of his own free will to Paris, France, where he became a friend of the Polish poet
Adam Mickiewicz.
He was a friend of
Frédéric Chopin, who dedicated his
Mazurkas, Op. 41 to him, and who also set ten of his texts as
Polish songs.
Witwicki wrote:
-
lyrics, including the popular Piosenki sielskie (Idyllic Songs, 1830), which have been set to music by
Frédéric Chopin (see
Polish songs by Frédéric Chopin),
Stanisław Moniuszko and others;
- a cycle of
paraphrases, Poezje biblijne (Biblical Poems, 1830);
- a
dramatic poem, Edmund (1829); and
- an
encomium to traditionalism, in his
prose writings, Wieczory pielgrzyma (A Pilgrim's Evenings, 1837–42; enlarged edition, 1844–45).
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