96 Notable alumni of
Academy of Music of Warsaw
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The Academy of Music of Warsaw is 533rd in the world, 198th in Europe, and 12th in Poland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 96 notable alumni from the Academy of Music of Warsaw sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Frédéric Chopin
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- pianistmusicianmusic teachercomposervirtuoso
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Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation".
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Władysław Szpilman
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Warsaw
- Studied piano
- Occupations
- pianistsongwritercomposerwriter
- Biography
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Władysław Szpilman was a Polish-Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on his autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw. He is portrayed by American actor Adrien Brody.
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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- classical composerhead of governmentpianistdiplomatcomposer
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a Polish pianist, composer and statesman who was a spokesman for Polish independence. In 1919, he was the nation's prime minister and foreign minister during which he signed the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I.
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Sanah
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Warsaw
- In 2019 graduated with Licentiate
- In 2021 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- composerviolinistpianistvocalistsongwriter
- Biography
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Zuzanna Irena Grabowska, known professionally as Sanah (stylized in all lowercase), is a Polish singer, songwriter, violinist, and composer. She received nationwide popularity in 2020, with the release of her single "Szampan", which became a number one hit in Poland. She later released her debut studio album Królowa dram (2020), which peaked at number one in Poland. She has gone on to release three further studio albums: Irenka (2021), Uczta (2022), and Sanah śpiewa poezyje (2022), all of which peaked at number one in Poland, and were certified diamond by the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry.
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Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Warsaw
- Studied in 1894-1899
- Occupations
- paintercomposer
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Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was a Lithuanian composer, painter, choirmaster, cultural figure, and writer in Polish.
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Michalina Olszańska
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- film actorwriteractorviolinistsinger
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Michalina Olszańska is a Polish actress and writer. She is a daughter of actors Agnieszka Fatyga and Wojciech Olszański. She has published two novels as a teenager.
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Witold Lutosławski
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- musicologistconductorpianistcomposer
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Witold Roman Lutosławski was a Polish composer and conductor. Among the major composers of 20th-century classical music, he is "generally regarded as the most significant Polish composer since Szymanowski, and possibly the greatest Polish composer since Chopin". His compositions—of which he was a notable conductor—include representatives of most traditional genres, aside from opera: symphonies, concertos, orchestral song cycles, other orchestral works, and chamber works. Among his best known works are his four symphonies, the Variations on a Theme by Paganini (1941), the Concerto for Orchestra (1954), and his cello concerto (1970).
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Hilary Koprowski
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- physicianimmunologistvirologist
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Hilary Koprowski was a Polish virologist and immunologist active in the United States who demonstrated the world's first effective live polio vaccine. He authored or co-authored over 875 scientific papers and co-edited several scientific journals.
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Piotr Rubik
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- composer
- Biography
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Piotr Rubik is a Polish composer of symphonic pop music for orchestra, film and theatre as well as conductor, music producer and vocalist. He gained nationwide popularity in the mid-2000s with the success of his songs Niech mówią, że to nie jest miłość (2005) and Psalm dla Ciebie (2006).
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Jakub Józef Orliński
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- danceropera singer
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Jakub Józef Orliński is a Polish operatic countertenor singer and breakdancer. He has performed leading roles with many opera companies, including Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Warsaw Grand Theatre and Oper Frankfurt.
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Anna Maria Jopek
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- lyricistrecord producersinger-songwriterrecording artistsinger
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Anna Maria Jopek is a Polish vocalist, songwriter, and improviser. She represented Poland in the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "Ale jestem" and finished 11th out of 25 participating acts; and in 2002, she collaborated on an album with jazz guitarist Pat Metheny. She has received numerous awards for her music, including Michel Legrand's Personal Award in Vitebsk in 1994, as well as all of the awards for music in Poland, together with gold and platinum records.
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Mieczysław Weinberg
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Warsaw
- Studied in 1939
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
- Biography
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Mieczysław Weinberg was a Polish, Soviet, and Russian composer and pianist. His compositions include 22 symphonies, a host of chamber works (including 17 string quartets as well as sonatas for violin, cello, and piano), a violin concerto, and seven operas. He was a contemporary of Dmitri Shostakovich, and they often shared ideas with each other. A 2004 reviewer considered him as "the third great Soviet composer, along with Prokofiev and Shostakovich". A 2017 article in the New York Times noted that his "darkly lucid music is beginning to gain wider recognition."
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Bernard Ładysz
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- actoropera singer
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Bernard Ładysz was a Polish bass-baritone and actor. He performed internationally at major opera houses and festivals, and was known especially for the title roles of Mozart's Don Giovanni and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. His recordings include Lucia di Lammermoor alongside Maria Callas. He took part in the world premieres of Krzysztof Penderecki's opera The Devils of Loudon at the Hamburg State Opera and the bass solo in his St Luke Passion at the Salzburg Festival. As an actor, he played in several films such as The Promised Land in 1974.
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Adam Sztaba
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- actorcomposer
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Adam Sztaba is a Polish composer, music producer, conductor, arranger, pianist and television personality.
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Hania Rani
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- pianistrecording artistcomposersinger
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Hania Rani is a Polish pianist, composer and singer.
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Fou Ts'ong
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- pianistcomposer
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Fou Ts'ong was a Chinese-born British pianist who was the first pianist of his national origin to achieve international recognition. He came to prominence after winning third prize and the Polish Radio Prize for the best performance of mazurkas in the 1955 V International Chopin Piano Competition, and remained particularly known as an interpreter of Chopin's music.
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Stefan Kisielewski
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- journalistcomposerwritermusic critic
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Stefan Kisielewski, nicknames Kisiel, Julia Hołyńska, Teodor Klon, Tomasz Staliński, was a Polish writer, publicist, composer and politician, and one of the members of Znak, one of the founders of the Unia Polityki Realnej, the Polish libertarian and conservative political party.
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Małgorzata Walewska
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- opera singer
- Biography
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Małgorzata Walewska is a Polish opera singer, dramatic mezzo-soprano.
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Ida Haendel
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- music teacherviolinistviolin teacher
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Ida Haendel, was a Polish-British-Canadian violinist. Haendel was a child prodigy, her career spanning over seven decades. She also became an influential teacher.
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Wanda Landowska
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- pianistharpsichordistmusic teachercomposermusicologist
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Wanda Aleksandra Landowska was a Polish harpsichordist and pianist whose performances, teaching, writings and especially her many recordings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century. She was the first person to record Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations on the harpsichord in 1933. She became a naturalized French citizen in 1938.
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Mieczysław Karłowicz
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- conductorphotographermountaineercomposerjournalist
- Biography
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Mieczysław Karłowicz was a Polish composer and conductor.
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Grażyna Bacewicz
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Warsaw
- Studied in 1932
- Occupations
- violinistpianistcomposerchoreographermusic teacher
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Grażyna Bacewicz Biernacka was a Polish composer and violinist of Lithuanian origin. She is the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in the early 19th century.
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Maria Sadowska
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- songwriterfilm directorsingerscreenwritercomposer
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Maria Sadowska, also credited as Marysia Sadowska or simply as Marysia, is a Polish pop singer, music producer, screenwriter and film director.
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Andrzej Korzyński
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- film score composerpianistorganistcomposerlyricist
- Biography
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Andrzej Waldemar Korzyński was a Polish composer whose work ranged from some of the biggest hits from the 1960s to the early nineties, a popular children's musical ("Akademia Pana Kleksa") and scores for some of the best Polish films of the second half of the 20th century — including Andrzej Wajda's (The Birch Wood, Man of Marble) and Andrzej Żuławski's (The Devil, Possession).
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Jerzy Petersburski
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- film score composerpianistconductormusiciancomposer
- Biography
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Jerzy Petersburski was a Jewish Polish pianist and composer of popular music, renowned mostly for his Tangos, some of which (such as To ostatnia niedziela, Już nigdy and Tango Milonga) were milestones in popularization of the musical genre in Poland and are still widely known today, more than half a century after their creation.
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Jan Ekier
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- pianistcomposer
- Biography
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Jan Stanisław Ekier was a Polish pianist and composer known for his authoritative edition of Chopin's music for the Chopin National Edition.
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Sofia Dzerzhinskaya
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- communistpoliticianrevolutionarypedagogue
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Sofia Sigizmundovna Dzerzhinskaya was a leading Polish Social Democrat and later Communist politician. During WWII, she was director of the Polish language Tadeusz Kościuszko radio station, broadcasting the communist message into occupied Poland.
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Janusz Olejniczak
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- pianistcomposer
- Biography
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Janusz Olejniczak is a Polish classical pianist and actor.
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Andrzej Panufnik
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- conductorpianistcomposerfilm score composer
- Biography
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Sir Andrzej Panufnik was a Polish composer and conductor. He became established as one of the leading Polish composers, and as a conductor he was instrumental in the re-establishment of the Warsaw Philharmonic orchestra after World War II. After his increasing frustration with the extra-musical demands made on him by the country's regime, he defected to the United Kingdom in 1954, and took up British citizenship. In 1957, he became chief conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, a post he relinquished after two years to devote all his time to composition.
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Alexandre Tansman
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- conductorpianistcomposerfilm score composer
- Biography
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Alexander Tansman was a Polish composer, pianist and conductor who became a naturalized French citizen in 1938. One of the earliest representatives of neoclassicism, associated with École de Paris, Tansman was a globally recognized and celebrated composer.
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Bronisław Huberman
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- music teacherviolinist
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Bronisław Huberman was a Polish violinist. He was known for his individualistic interpretations and was praised for his tone color, expressiveness, and flexibility. The Gibson ex-Huberman Stradivarius violin, which bears his name, was stolen twice and recovered once during the period in which he owned the instrument. Huberman is also remembered for founding the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (then known as the Palestine Philharmonic) and thus providing refuge from the Third Reich for nearly 1,000 European Jews.
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Henryk Wars
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- conductorpianistcomposerfilm score composer
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Henryk Wars was a Polish composer. He composed scores for 50 films during the interwar period in Poland and 60 more in the United States.
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Roman Totenberg
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- musicianuniversity teachermusic teacherviolinist
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Roman Totenberg was a Polish-American violinist and educator. A child prodigy, he lived in Poland, Moscow, Berlin, and Paris, before formally immigrating to the U.S. in 1938, at age 27. He performed and taught nationally and internationally throughout his life.
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Zdzisław Karczewski
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- actortheatrical directorathletics competitor
- Biography
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Zdzisław Karczewski was a Polish film actor. He appeared in more than 30 films between 1933 and 1970.
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Piotr Anderszewski
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- classical pianistpianist
- Biography
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Piotr Anderszewski is a Polish pianist and composer.
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Dorota Miśkiewicz
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- jazz musiciancomposersingerviolinistrecording artist
- Biography
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Dorota Miśkiewicz [dɔˈrɔta miɕˈkʲɛvit͡ʂ] is a Polish singer, songwriter, composer, and violinist.
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Jerzy Maksymiuk
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- pianistcomposerconductor
- Biography
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Jerzy Jan Maksymiuk is a Polish composer, pianist and orchestra conductor.
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Ludomir Różycki
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- conductorpianistcomposermusic teacher
- Biography
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Ludomir Różycki was a Polish composer and conductor. He was, with Mieczysław Karłowicz, Karol Szymanowski and Grzegorz Fitelberg, a member of the group of composers known as Young Poland, the intention of which was to invigorate the musical culture of their generation in their mother country.
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Julian Fontana
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- music teacherpianistcomposer
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Julian Fontana (31 July 1810 — 23 December 1869) was a Polish pianist, composer, lawyer, author, translator, and entrepreneur, best remembered as a close friend and musical executor of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin.
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Marek Tomaszewski
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- jazz musicianpianist
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Marek Tomaszewski is a Polish pianist. He was one half of the pianist duo Marek and Wacek with Wacław Kisielewski from 1963 until his death on 12 July 1986. He is the father of French music video director David Tomaszewski.
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Grzegorz Fitelberg
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- conductorviolinistmusic teachercomposermusician
- Biography
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Grzegorz Fitelberg was a Polish conductor, violinist and composer. He was a member of the Young Poland group, together with artists such as Karol Szymanowski, Ludomir Różycki and Mieczysław Karłowicz.
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Ilya Shatrov
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- military personnelcomposerconductor
- Biography
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Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov was a Russian military musician, conductor and composer, known for composing the waltz On the Hills of Manchuria in 1906, recounting his experiences at the Battle of Mukden during the Russo-Japanese War, which he dedicated to one of his comrades fallen at the battle.
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Zygmunt Noskowski
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- choir directorconductormusic teachercomposerjournalist
- Biography
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Zygmunt Noskowski was a Polish composer, conductor, and teacher.
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Witold Małcużyński
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- pianistmusiciancomposer
- Biography
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Witold Małcużyński was a distinguished Polish pianist who specialized in the works of Frédéric Chopin.
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Roger Woodward
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- pianistcomposer
- Biography
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Roger Robert Woodward ) is an Australian human rights activist, classical pianist, composer, conductor and teacher who is widely regarded as a leading advocate of contemporary music.
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Juozas Naujalis
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- composerconductorpedagoguechoir directormusic teacher
- Biography
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Juozas Naujalis was a Lithuanian composer, organist and choir conductor. He is acclaimed as Lithuanian music patriarch.
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Tadeusz Baird
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- composerfilm score composermusic teacheruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Tadeusz Baird was a Polish composer.
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Włodek Pawlik
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- jazz musiciancomposerfilm score composermusic teacherrecording artist
- Biography
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Włodek Pawlik, Włodzimierz Pawlik is a Polish composer and jazz pianist. On 26 January 2014, he became the first Polish jazz musician to receive a Grammy Award, having won in the Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album category with his album Night in Calisia, recorded with Randy Brecker and the Kalisz Philharmonic Orchestra, released in the USA by Summit Records.
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Paul Kletzki
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- conductorcomposer
- Biography
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Paul Kletzki was a Polish conductor and composer.
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Aleksander Jabłoński
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- physicist
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Aleksander Jabłoński was a Polish physicist and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research was in molecular spectroscopy and photophysics.
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Moshe Wilensky
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- pianistsongwritercomposerlyricist
- Biography
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Moshe Wilensky was a Polish-Israeli composer, lyricist, and pianist. He is considered a "pioneer of Israeli song" and one of Israel's leading composers, and was a winner of the Israel Prize, the state's highest honor.
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Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński
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- pianistconductorcomposermusic teacher
- Biography
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Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński was a Polish pianist and composer. He was the son of Ignacy Dobrzyński, the brother of Edward Dobrzyński, and the father of Bronisław Dobrzyński.
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Jan Maklakiewicz
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- musicologistconductorcomposermusic critic
- Biography
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Jan Adam Maklakiewicz was a Polish composer, conductor, critic, and music educator. His most known compositions belong to the choral music.
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Eugenia Umińska
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- music teacherviolinistconcertmaster
- Biography
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Eugenia Umińska was a Polish violinist.
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Elisabeth Chojnacka
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- harpsichordist
- Biography
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Elisabeth Chojnacka was a Polish harpsichordist living in France. She was one of the world's foremost harpsichordists specializing in the performance of contemporary harpsichord music.
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Franciszka Themerson
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- scenographercartoonistpainterfilmmakerfilm director
- Biography
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Franciszka Themerson was a Polish, later British, painter, illustrator, filmmaker and stage designer.
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Felicja Blumental
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- harpsichordistpianist
- Biography
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Felicja Blumental was a Polish pianist and composer. "She was one of the relatively few women born in the first quarter of the twentieth century to have achieved an important career as a concert pianist."
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Paweł Łukaszewski
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- music teachercomposerconductor
- Biography
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Paweł Łukaszewski is a Polish composer of choral music. He has won seven prestigious Fryderyk Awards. According to David Wordsworth, Łukaszewski is the best-known Polish composer of his generation in and out of Poland "by far" (Wordsworth 2013, p. 50).
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Olha Pasichnyk
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- musicianopera singer
- Biography
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Olga Pasichnyk is a Polish-Ukrainian classical soprano singer. She lives in Poland.
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Tomasz Szukalski
- Occupations
- saxophonist
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Tomasz Szukalski was a Polish jazz saxophonist, composer and improviser. Szukalski worked with Tomasz Stańko, Edward Vesala and Zbigniew Namysłowski. Awarded Magister of Music (Master of Arts) at Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, Warsaw. Szukalski was a revered master of tenor saxophone and his style was often compared to that of John Coltrane and Ben Webster.
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Zbigniew Drzewiecki
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- pianistmusic teacher
- Biography
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Zbigniew Drzewiecki was a Polish pianist who was for most of his life a teacher of pianists. He was especially associated with the interpretation of Frédéric Chopin's works. His pupils include several famous pianists of the 20th century, and his influence was therefore very pervasive.
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Romuald Twardowski
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- composermusic teacher
- Biography
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Romuald Twardowski was a Polish composer, pianist, organist and academic teacher who studied in Vilnius, Warsaw and Paris. In a style described as "developed neoclassicism", he composed operas, ballets, instrumental music and vocal works, especially sacred music for both Catholic use and the Orthodox Church. He achieved international prizes for his compositions, and many works were recorded in anthologies, including the Violin Concerto, chamber music, and sacred and secular choral music such as the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. He was professor at the State Academy of Music in Warsaw from 1972 to 2008.
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Henryk Pachulski
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Warsaw
- Studied in 1876
- Occupations
- pianistcomposerpedagoguemusic teacher
- Biography
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Henryk Pachulski was a Polish-born pianist, composer and teacher who spent most of his life in Russia.
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Kazimierz Wiłkomirski
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- conductorcomposeruniversity teachermusic teacher
- Biography
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Kazimierz Wiłkomirski; was a Polish cellist, composer and conductor. Son of Alfred Wiłkomirski, brother of Maria Wiłkomirska, Wanda Wiłkomirska and violinist Michael Wilkomirski. Graduate of the Moscow Conservatory (cello student of Alfred von Glenn).
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Konstanty Gorski
- Occupations
- composerconductormusic teacherviolinistmusician
- Biography
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Konstanty Antoni Gorski was a Polish composer, violinist, organist and music teacher.
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Piotr Perkowski
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Piotr Perkowski was a Polish composer.
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Bolesław Przybyszewski
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- musicianmusicologist
- Biography
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Boleslaw Stanislavovich Przybyszewski was a Soviet public person, teacher, and musicologist. Head of the Moscow Conservatory in 1929–1932.
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Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński
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- pianistconductorcomposermusic teacher
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Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński was a Polish composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher. His students included composer and pianist Jadwiga Sarnecka.
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Roman Maciejewski
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- pianistcomposerconductor
- Biography
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Roman Maciejewski was a Polish composer. His mother, Bronisława Maciejewska, was a talented violinist and music teacher who taught him to play piano.
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Bohdan Wodiczko
- Occupations
- conductormusic teacher
- Biography
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Bohdan Wodiczko was a Polish conductor and music teacher.
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Włodzimierz Kotoński
- Occupations
- musicologistcomposeruniversity teachernon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Włodzimierz Kotoński was a Polish composer.
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Lucas Krupinski
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Lucas Krupinski - Polish pianist, winner of the 7th San Marino International Piano Competition, semi-finalist of the XVII International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2015.
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Krzysztof Knittel
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Warsaw
- Studied in 1971
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Krzysztof Knittel is a Polish composer of symphonic, chamber, stage and electroacoustic works.
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Bolesław Szabelski
- Occupations
- organistcomposerpedagoguemusic teacher
- Biography
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Bolesław Szabelski was a Polish composer of modern classical music. While his style shifted and varied over the course of his life, he is best known for his atonal work composed during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Ana Lara
- Occupations
- composermusic teacher
- Biography
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Ana Lara is a Mexican composer.
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Ewa Kupiec
- Occupations
- university teacherpianist
- Biography
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Ewa Kupiec is a Polish classical pianist.
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Karol Radziwonowicz
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Warsaw
- Studied in 1982
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Karol Mikołaj Radziwonowicz is a Polish pianist.
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Stanisław Szpinalski
- Occupations
- music teacherpianistcomposer
- Biography
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Stanisław Szpinalski was a Polish pianist.
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Iwona Sobotka
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Iwona Sobotka is a Polish soprano and Grand Prix Winner of the Queen Elizabeth Music Competition.
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Bolesław Kon
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- pianistcomposer
- Biography
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Bolesław Kon was a Polish concert pianist who won international acclaim in his brief career.
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Elżbieta Sikora
- Occupations
- film score composercomposer
- Biography
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Elżbieta Sikora is a Polish composer who has been resident in France since 1981. She has composed stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and electroacoustic works as well as film scores.
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Janusz Wawrowski
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Janusz Wawrowski is a Polish violinist, lecturer at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, and director of multiple violin festivals.
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Zbigniew Turski
- Occupations
- artistcomposer
- Biography
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Zbigniew Turski was a Polish composer. He was born in Konstancin and died in Warsaw. In 1948 he won a gold medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his Symfonia Olimpijska ("Olympic Symphony").
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Timothee Adamowski
- Occupations
- violinistcomposerconductor
- Biography
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Tymoteusz "Timothee" Adamowski was a Polish-born American conductor, composer, and violinist. Born in Warsaw, he studied in that city's conservatory, later moving on to further studies in Paris. He served as the first conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Adamowski was the uncle of Polish Olympic hockey player Tadeusz Adamowski and the humanitarian Helenka Adamowska Pantaleoni.
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Jerzy Lefeld
- Occupations
- music teacherpianistcomposer
- Biography
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Jerzy Lefeld born 17 January 1898 in Warsaw, died on 22 February 1980 in Warsaw, was a Polish composer, pianist and a music teacher.
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Wojciech Rajski
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Wojciech Rajski is a Polish conductor, and the founder and current Artistic Director of the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Sopot. His recordings can be heard on such labels as Deutsche Grammophon, Dux Records, and EMI Classics.
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Witold Friemann
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
- Biography
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Witold Friemann was a Polish composer, pianist, conductor and pedagogue. He was very prolific and composed more than 350 Opuses, most of which remain inedited.
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Daniel Wnukowski
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Daniel Vnukowski is a Polish Canadian pianist and classical music broadcaster.
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Erika Dobosiewicz
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Erika Dobosiewicz was a Polish born violinist who performed widely. She considered her home as Mexico. She won the International “Henryk Szeryng” Violin Competition in Mexico in 1992 and led the Theater Orchestra of Fine Arts as concertmaster.
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Piotr Tomaszewski
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- classical guitarist
- Biography
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Piotr Tomaszewski is a classical guitarist from Poland. He has studied classical guitar since 1990 and has won awards in several competitions, as well as being a guest performer at festivals and events around Europe. Tomaszewski's repertoire includes guitar concertos and works for solo guitar, playing both modern pieces and classical works of centuries past. He also records for Spain's Channel 10, and for Polish Radio and Television.
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Eta Tyrmand
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Warsaw
- Studied in 1938
- Occupations
- pedagoguecomposer
- Biography
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Eta Moiseyevna Tyrmand was a Belarusian composer.
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Przemysław Lechowski
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- pianist
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Przemysław Lechowski is a Polish classical pianist.
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Andrzej Rozbicki
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- musician
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Andrzej Rozbicki, also known as Andrew Rozbicki, is a Polish-Canadian conductor, music educator, producer and promoter of Polish music in Canada and United States. He is the founder and artistic director of Celebrity Symphony Orchestra. He is a Music Educator with Toronto Catholic District School Board.
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Shaul Berezovsky
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- pianistcomposerconductor
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Shaul Berezovsky was a Polish and Israeli composer, pianist, and music director. He composed music for productions by many of the leading figures of the Polish Yiddish Theatre of the interwar and postwar period, including Shimon Dzigan and Israel Shumacher, Moishe Broderzon, and Ida Kamińska. He was also well-known as a choir director and arranger.
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Adelina Paschalis
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- music teacheropera singer
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Adelina Paschalis-Souvestre was a Polish soprano and music teacher.
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Gustaw Lewita
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- pianist
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Gustaw Lewita was a pianist from Płock, Poland. He attended the Vienna Conservatory and graduated with distinction, before heading to Paris. There he became a member of the orchestra of the Pas de Loup concerts. In 1882, he became a professor at the Warsaw Conservatory. He later gave concerts to Archduke Franz Karl in Vienna and to the Emperor of Brazil, during his later American tour.
