(Antoine de Kontski, Anton de Kontski) pianist and composer; born on the 25th September 1816 in Cracow; died 7th December 1899 in Ivanchytsi (Ukraine). He came from a musical family: his father Grzegorz Kątski, an auditor at the Warsaw Lyceum, was a...
composer; b. 25th June 1971 in Ostrów Wielkopolski. In 1996 she graduated with honours from the Faculty of Composition, Conducting and Theory of Music at the Academy of Music in Poznań, where she studied with Jan Astriab. In the 1995-96 academic year...
composer, conductor and academic teacher, b. 8th September 1911 in Sosnowiec, d. 29th November 1992 in Łódź. He graduated from the State Music Conservatory in Warsaw (1936) after studying composition with Piotr Rytel, conducting with Walerian Bierdiajew...
Born in Lviv on 17 July 1932, died in Katowice on 29 December 2013, composer and pianist. He studied piano playing and composition with Bolesław Woytowicz at the High School of Music in Katowice, graduating with the highest honours in 1955. In 1955-58...
composer, academic teacher, music critic, writer and journalist, b. 7th March 1911 in Warsaw; d. 27th Sept. 1991 in Warsaw. He studied at Warsaw Conservatory, from which he graduated in music theory (1934) and composition (1937) after studies with...
composer, pianist and teacher; b. 15th April 1888 in Borowka, Volhynia; d. 26th August 1973 in Warsaw. Until 1905 she studied at the Music Conservatory in Warsaw in the piano class of Katarzyna Jaczynowska and the music theory class of Gustaw Roguski....
composer, poet, violinist, music theoretician; b. 29th October 1937 in Łuck. He studied violin in the class of Edward Statkiewicz, theory of music and composition under the direction of Tadeusz Natanson, and vocal and instrumental ensembles conducting...
Polish composer and pianist, b. 9th July 1951 in Ruda Śląska. In 1970-76, he studied composition with Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and piano with Czesław Stańczyk at the State Higher School of Music in Katowice (now the Music Academy). In 1976, he received a...
composer and performer; b. May 1, 1947, Warsaw. Knittel studied sound engineering at the Frédéric Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw from 1966-70, where he also studied composition with Tadeusz Baird, Andrzej Dobrowolski and Wlodzimierz Kotonski from...
composer and architect; b. 15th February 1978 in Cracow. He graduated from the Academy of Music in Cracow where he studied under the supervision of Anna Zawadzka-Gołosz. He also studied composition with Wolfgang Liebhart at the Vienna Conservatory and...
composer; born in Wrocław, Poland. She began learning to play the piano at the Grażyna Bacewicz State Music School in Wroclaw. In the years 1991-1997 she studied at the Ryszard Bukowski Secondary Music School in Wrocław in the piano class of Andrzej...
composer, musicologist, academic teacher and press commentator, b. 28th November 1896 in Stryj (now the Ukraine), d. probably in 1944 near Krosno. In 1910-14 he attended a secondary school in Stryj. Simultaneously, he took private lessons in harmony,...
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