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composer; b. 1983, Daegu (South Korea). He graduated the composition class from Kyongbook High School of Art in Daegu 2002, bachelor at the Keimyung-Chopin Academy of Music in Daegu 2008, master of art at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in...

Chełmecki Jarosław

Chętnik Adam

ethnographer, social and political activist; b. 20 December 1895 in Nowogród (upon the Narew river), d. 29 May 1967 in Warsaw. He was born in a little town in the area of Łomża to a family of craftsmen and farmers. Already as a small child he assisted...

Chłopecki Andrzej

Chłopicka Regina

Chmara-Żaczkiewicz Barbara

Chmielewska Aleksandra

composer; b. 1st September 1993 in Warsaw. She studied oboe with Marek Roszkowski at the Grażyna Bacewicz State Primary and Secondary Music School Complex No. 3 in Warsaw. She graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where she...

Chmielewski Tadeusz

Chmielowska Wanda

Chmura Gabriel

conductor; b. 7th May 1946 in Wrocław. He began his musical education with Adam Kopyciński, a former director of the Wrocław Opera. In 1957 he emigrated with his family to Israel, where he continued his education. In 1964 he started studies in...

Chodkowski Andrzej

Chodowicz Wioletta

Chojnacka Elżbieta

Chołoniewski Marek

composer and performing musician, b. 23rd October 1953 in Cracow. He studied music theory and composition with Bogusław Schaeffer as well as organ with Leszek Werner in the State Higher School of Music in Cracow. At present, he is a reader at the...

Chopin Fryderyk

A calendar of the composer’s life and the list of works 1810 Fryderyk (Frédéric) Chopin was born on 1st March (or, according to some historians, 22nd February) 1810 in the Żelazowa Wola country house in Mazowsze (Mazovia), 60 km west of Warsaw. His...

Chorosiński Andrzej

Chorosiński Jan

Chorosiński Wiesław

viola player, pedagogue, organist and conductor; born 30th April 1954 in Warsaw. He graduated from the Józef Elsner State Secondary Music School in Warsaw in the viola class of Błażej Sroczyński (1973) and the organ class of Andrzej Chorosiński (1975)....

Chrenowicz Jakub

conductor, b. 1986 in Poznań. In 2010 he graduated with honours in symphonic and opera conducting from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań in the class of Professor Jerzy Salwarowski. As an LLP/Erasmus scholarship holder, he studied at...

Chrzanowski Sławomir

Chwedczuk Zbigniew

Chybiński Adolf

musicologist, music historian, music ethnographer, teacher, founder of musicological studies at the universities in Lviv and Poznań; b. 29th April 1880 in Kraków; d. 31st October 1952 in Poznań. He took his first piano lessons in Kraków with Jan...

Chylińska Teresa

Chyrzyński Marcel

composer; b. 26 November 1971 in Częstochowa. He studied composition with Marek Stachowski (graduating with honours in 1995), instrumentation with Krzysztof Penderecki, and computer music with Marek Chołoniewski at the Acadmy of Music in Krakow. He...

Cato Diomedes

Chachaj Tadeusz

Chajdecki Bartosz

Chang Eunho