Stanislaw Moniuszko

Stanislaw Moniuszko. Music Department: Halka. Stanislaw Moniuszko (May 5, 1819 - June 4, 1872) was a Polish composer, conductor and teacher. He wrote many popular art songs and operas, and his music is filled with patriotic folk themes of the peoples of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (mainly Poles, Lithuanians and Belarusians). He is generally referred to as "the father of Polish national opera". Since the 1990s Stanislaw Moniuszko is being...