Composers and their stage works 


[Count] Aleksander FREDRO

(1793 - 1876)
Polish dramatist: born Surochów 20 June, 1793; Died Lvov 15 July, 1876)

Stage Works

  1. An Improvised Intrigue - Comedy, 1 act. Written 1815. Produced Lvov, Mar. 10, 1817.
  2. Mister Geldhab - Comedy, 3 acts. Written 1818. Produced Warsaw, Oct. 7, 1821.
  3. Husband and Wife -Comedy, 3 acts. Written 1821. Produced Lvov, Apr. 29, 1822; Warsaw, June 22, 1823.
  4. Clavigo. Play.(Translation) Published 1822. Based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play of the same name (1774).
  5. Sulking and Pigheadedness - Comedy, 1 act. Produced Warsaw, Dec. 29, 1822.
  6. The New Don Quixote, or A Hundred Follies. Farce with songs, 3 acts. Reworking of An Improvised Intrigue. Written 1822. Produced Lvov, April, 1824.
  7. The Love of Things Foreign -Comedy, 3 acts. Written 1822. Produced Lvov, Feb. 29, 1824.
  8. The First Woman Available, or the Science of Salvation - Comedy, 1 act. Written 1823. Produced Warsaw May 14, 1824.
  9. The Hermits and the Poet - Comedy, 1 act. Written 1825. Produced Warsaw, June 1, 1826.
  10. Ladies and Hussars - Comedy, 3 acts. Written 1825. Produced Lvov, Nov. 18, 1825; Warsaw, May 14, 1826.
  11. The Letter - Comedy, 1 act. Written 1825. Produced Lvov, Oct. 28, 1825.
  12. A Refuge for the Night in the Apennines. Operetta, 1 act. Written 1825. Produced Lvov, June 16, 1841. Music: Stanislaw Moniuszko and (second score) Franciszek Mirecki.
  13. Nobody Knows Me - Comedy, 1 act. Written 1825. Produced Lvov, July 7, 1826; Warsaw, June 17, 1827.
  14. Friends - Comedy, 4 acts. Written 1826. Produced Warsaw, Sept. 28, 1828.
  15. Good Lord, What Goes on Here! - Comedy, 3 acts. Written 1826. Produced Cracow, May 6, 1832.
  16. Maidens' Vows, or The Magnetism of the Heart - Comedy, 5 acts. Written 1827-1832. Produced Lvov, Feb. 15, 1833; Warsaw, Nov. 16, 1834.
  17. The Stagecoach - Comedy. Two versions: 4 and 5 acts. Produced Lvov, Mar. 22, 1833.
  18. The Defence of Olsztyn - Dramatic picture, 1 act. Written before 1830. Produced Lvov, Dec. 31, 1889.
  19. Mister Jowialski - Comedy, 4 acts. Written 1832. Produced Lvov, June 22, 1832; Warsaw, May 10, 1835.
  20. Vengeance - Comedy, 4 acts. Written 1833. Produced Lvov, Feb. 17, 1834; Warsaw, Sept. 26, 1845.
  21. Auntie - Comedy, 3 acts. Written 1833. Produced Lvov, June 16, 1834. Warsaw, May 9, 1858.
  22. A Life Annuity - Comedy, 3 acts. Produced Lvov, June 12, 1835; Warsaw, Apr. 9, 1845.
  23. Rymond - Opera, 1 act. Written 1836. Produced Geneva, December, 1901; Oberfeld, Germany, Oct. 14, 1902. Music: Raoul Koczalski.
  24. A Big Man for Small Affairs - Comedy, 5 acts. Written 1854-1857. Produced Lvov, Jan. 11, 1877.
  25. The Girl Ward - Comedy, 5 acts. Written 1855. Produced Cracow, Sept. 29, 1877.
  26. Two Scars - Comedy, 1 act. Written 1857. Produced Cracow, Feb. 3, 1877.
  27. To Marry or Not to Marry? A Hard Choice (The Troubles We Have!) - Comedy, 4 acts. Written 1858. Produced Lvov, Feb. 14, 1879.
  28. I Can't Get Married - Comedy, 3 acts. Written 1859. Produced Lvov, Nov. 12, 1877,
  29. Mister Benet - Comedy, 1 act. Written ca. 1859. Produced Cracow, Oct. 19, 1878.
  30. The Mastiff Brys - Dramatized fable, 4 parts. Written 1860. Published 1877. Produced Cracow, May 18, 1901.
  31. Lita et Compagnie - Comedy, 1 act. Written 1861. Produced Cracow, Oct. 19, 1878.
  32. The Gun - Comedy, 5 acts. Written 1861. Produced Lvov, Feb. 16, 1877.
  33. Worthy of Pity - Comedy, 3 acts. Written 1862. Produced Cracow, Nov. 6, 1877.
  34. The Concert - Intermezzo, 1 scene. Written 1865. Produced Cracow, Nov. 7, 1885.
  35. You Become Like the People You Deal With - Dramatized proverb, 1 act. Written 1865. Produced Lvov, Feb. 14, 1877.
  36. The Candle Went Out - Comedy, 1 act. Written 1865. Produced Lvov, Feb. 14, 1877.
  37. I Am a Murderer - Comedy, 1 act. Written 1865. Produced Cracow, Nov. 20, 1877.
  38. From Przemysl to Przeszowa - Comedy, 2 acts. Written 1867. Produced Cracow, Feb. 20, 1897.
  39. The Last Will and Testament - Comedy, 3 acts. Written 1867. Produced Cracow, Sept. 21, 1878.
  40. Now - Tableau, 1 act. Written 1873. Produced Cracow, Nov. 20, 1877.