{"id":1970,"date":"2025-12-28T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/biesy-first-symphony\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T23:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T23:54:00","slug":"biesy-first-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/biesy-first-symphony\/","title":{"rendered":"Biesy \u2013 Smoczy\u0144ski\u2019s First Symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_flex_section\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_flex_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et-last-child et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_24_24 et_flex_column_24_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>Mateusz Smoczy\u0144ski has completed his composing project \u2014 a first symphony entitled \u201cBiesy\u201d (The Possessed). It is a large-scale work of some forty minutes for full symphony orchestra, inspired by the novel of the same title by Fyodor Dostoevsky.<\/p>\n<p>The symphony is the culmination of the composer\u2019s symphonic work to date. It joins classical form with elements of a jazz idiom and with structures characteristic of minimal music.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_section_1 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_flex_section\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_1 et_pb_row et_flex_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_12_24 et_flex_column_12_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_1 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>The work was written under a 2025 scholarship from the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_2 et_pb_column et-last-child et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_12_24 et_flex_column_12_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_image_0 et_pb_image et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/logo_MKiDN.png\" title=\"logo_MKiDN\" width=\"1536\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/logo_MKiDN.png 1536w, https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/logo_MKiDN-1280x360.png 1280w, https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/logo_MKiDN-980x276.png 980w, https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/logo_MKiDN-480x135.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1536px, 100vw\" class=\"wp-image-1222\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzviolinist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}