# Boleslaw Szczeniowski

Boleslaw Szczeniowski (20 July 1898 – 1985) was a Canadian aeronautical engineer and composer of Polish descent. A graduate of the school of engineering at Lviv Polytechnic, Szczeniowski made a living as an engineer in Montréal. He published two books: Theory of the siphon jet (published by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1955) and Theoretical analysis of combustion gases (Montreal, 1946).
As a composer and musician, Szczeniowski was largely self-taught. He composed a significant amount of vocal music and works for solo piano and a small amount of chamber music.

## Compositions
### Symphonic

* Rustic Dance

### Vocal music

* 1954 The rainbow, - text: Marja Konopnicka
* 1954 Will-o'the wisp, - text: Hanna Gross
* 1955 Entends tu…/ Do you hear…, text: Mario Gross
* 1955 Les tenebres/Dusk, - text: Mario Gross
* 1955 Mon chant, - text: Mario Gress
* 1955 Poranek/Morning, - text: Marja Konopnicka
* 1956 Poeme, - text: Marc Gelinas
* 1956 Little Jack Horner
* 1958 La lune dans l'eau, - textt: Wilfrid Lemoine
* 1958 Le petit lapin de la lune, - text: Cecile Duchene
* 1958 Pierrot, - text: Wilfrid Lemoine
* 1959 A poor young Sheppard - text: Paul Verlaine
* 1959 Un grand sommeil noir, - text: Paul Verlaine
* 1960 The house of the hill, - text: Edwin Arlington Robinson
* 1961 Song for the rainy season, - text: Elizabeth Bishop
* 1977 To the dog howling in the middle of the street, - text: Kazimierz Wierzynski
* Ashes - text: Kazimierz Wierzynski
* A door is closing - text: Hanna Gross
* A la clair fountaine
* A little love story/Un petit amour - text: Beata Obertynska
* Chanson des ivrognes, slow-boggie - text: Mario Gross
* Le ciel est par-dessus, text: Paul Verlaine
* Drinking song
* Fall, tekst: Hanna Gross
* Gra w lisa, Foxy - text: Marja Konopnicka
* Je voulais te dire
* Little rain, text: Marja Konopnicka
* Popiot, Ashes-Cendres - text: Kazimierz Wierzynski
* Rues desertes/Deserted streets, - text: Mario Gross
* To sleep, darling/Oj, usnij, - text: Marja Konopnicka
* Swialton, light-lumiere - text: Kazimierz Wierzynski
* Vision/Wizja, - text: Marja Konopnicka
* What lips my lips have kissed, - text: Edna St. Vincent Millay
* What should I sing you/A co wam spiewac, - text: Marja Konopnicka
* Winter ballad - text: Hanna Gross

### Chamber music

* String Quartet No. 1 (1956)
* String Quartet No. 2 (1962)

### Piano works

* 1976 The Gentle Wind
* Seven Etudes
** For seconds - Allegro
** For thirds - Allegro
** For fourths - Andante
** For fifths - Andantino
** For sixths - Allegretto
** For sevenths - Andante
** For octaves - Largo
* Pieces
** Prélude
** Rite sauvage
** L'aube au Lac Noir
** Le caribou mourant
** Thème russe
** Thème ibérique
** Promenade aux chutes Darwin
** Le vent
** Le ruisseau
** Le moulin
** Labourage
** Songe
** La pluie
** Automne
** Une fontaine
** Une prière
** La course
** Le retour
** Une barque
** La nuit
** Thème polonais
** Le renard
** Berceuse
** Berceau
** Les hirondelles
** Été

## Sources

* Ronald Napier: A Guide to Canada's composers, Willowdale, Ontario: Avondale Press, 1973, p. 50
* Storm Bull: Index to biographies of contemporary composers - Vol. II, Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1974, 567 p.