Nowowiejski, Feliks (1877-1946)

Polish composer and conductor. He studied in Berlin, at Regensburg in Bavaria, where he studied church music, and afterwards in France, Belgium, and Italy. In 1909, he returned to Poland, conducting the Kraków Music Society until 1914. In 1919, he became professor of organ at the Poznań Conservatory, where he conducted orchestral concerts.

Works Opera and ballet operas Baltic Legend (1924), The Mountain Goblin; opera-ballet Leluja; ballets Tatra, Polish Wedding;

Orchestral Masses, motets, and psalms; oratorios Quo vadis? (1907), Beatum scelus, Missa pro pace; cantata Upper Silesian Folk Scene; symphonic poems Beatrix, Nina, overture Polish Wooing, The Prodigal Son, Jerusalem; nine symphonies.