Janina Skowronska facts for kids

Janina Skowronska (February 8, 1920 - 1992) was a Polish composer who is best remembered for her arrangements of folk songs, and for creating Little Chopin, a children’s musical based on the life and works of Frederic Chopin.

Skowronska was born to a Polish family in Germakowka (then in the USSR, now in Ukraine). She studied music at the State Music College  in Wroclaw, Poland, and with Tadeusz Szeligowski. She received a diploma in 1961.

Skowronska’s compositions included:

Chamber

• Theme and Variations (string quartet)

Orchestra

• Symphony

Piano

• Preludes

• Rondo

• Waltz

Theatre

• Little Chopin (for children)

Vocal

• Children’s Songs

• Drugi Brzeg (soprano, oboe, two clarinets and horn)

• “Golden Rain”

• Moda Pani Czepca Nie Ma (mixed chorus)

• O Wy Corne Kawki (folk song; mixed chorus)

• Od Krakowa do Wroclawia (folk dance suite; chorus and orchestra)

• Parodie (text by W. Marianowicz; baritone, soprano, bassoon and string orchestra)

• Pokoju Czas (text by R. Heniszowa; mixed chorus)

• Samotne Drzewa (text by L. Turkowski; mixed chorus)

• Suite of Folk Dances (text by Andrzej Waligórski; orchestra and chorus)

• “Tu Bedziemy” (text by A. Burcia; voice and piano)

• Two Folksongs (soprano and piano)

• U.F.O. (for soprano and eight instruments: clarinet, cello, six percussion)

• Ziemio Moja (mixed chorus)