Feliks Nowowiejski

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Feliks Nowowiejski (February 7, 1877 – January 18, 1946) was a Polish composer, conductor, concert organist, and music teacher. Nowowiejski was born in Wartenburg (Barczewo) in East Prussia, German Empire. He died in Poznań, Poland.

His best-known compositions include:

March, Pod sztandarem pokoju (Under the Banner of Peace, 1898, awarded a prize in London).
Oratorio, Powrót syna marnotrawnego (The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1902, awarded the Giacomo Meyerbeer Prize).
Overture, Swaty polskie (Polish Courtship, 1903, awarded the Ludwig van Beethoven Prize).
Oratorio, Zanaleziene Świętego Krzyża (The Discovery of the Holy Cross, with the famous Pace Domine, 1906).
Oratorio, Quo vadis (1907).
Song, Rota (1910).
Opera, Emigranci (The Emigrants, 1917).
Opera, Legenda Bałtyku (The Legend of the Baltic, 1924)
Orchestral symphonies
Piano Concerto
Cello Concerto
9 organ symphonies op. 45 (ca. 1929-31)
4 organ concertos op. 56 (ca. 1930-40)
In Paradisum, the organ poem, op. 61 (1941)