"Pałacyk Michla" (Michler Palace) is a 1944 song by poet and insurgent Józef Szczepański. Written during the Warsaw Uprising, it is one of his best known songs.[1]
During the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 the Michler Palace in Warsaw was a site of intense fighting around August 4 and 5 involving the Parasol Battalion insurgent unit.[2] Insurgent poet Józef Szczepański, a member of the Parasol unit,[3] wrote a song (Pałacyk Michla) about those events, performing it in its vicinity on the evening of August 4.[4][5] The song, published shortly afterward in an insurgent newspaper, quickly gained popularity among the partisans, was performed for them by a popular singer Mieczysław Fogg, and later, became known in the entire Poland.[4][6][1] On the next day the Germans captured the building, which, damaged in the fighting, was demolished shortly after.[2] The song has been called Szczepański's most famous song.[1]
The song's tune was based on an earlier, pre-war Polish song "Nie damy Popradowej fali". That tune has been authored by the Slovak composer Jan Šťastný.[7][8][1]
References
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- ^ a b Czechowski, Paweł. "Pałacyk Michla: bohaterski opór oddziału "Gryfa"". Histmag (in Polish). Retrieved 2019-11-13.
- ^ Michael Moran (2 June 2011). A Country In The Moon: Travels In Search Of The Heart Of Poland. Granta Publications. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-84708-493-4.
- ^ a b Majewski, Jerzy S. (10 May 2007). "Od pałacyku Michla na Kercelak". Gazeta Wyborcza (in Polish). Retrieved 2019-11-13.
- ^ Majewski, Jerzy S. (31 July 2013). "O czym naprawdę jest najpopularniejsza powstańcza piosenka?". wyborcza.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2019-11-15.
- ^ "World War 2: Warsaw Uprising :: Songs". www.warsawuprising.com. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
- ^ Robert Allen Rothstein (2008). Two Words to the Wise: Reflections on Polish Language, Literature, and Folklore. Slavica Publishers. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-89357-361-4.
- ^ Łobodziński, Filip (21 August 2005). "Rosną czy runą". www.newsweek.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2019-11-15.
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