Adamowski Jan

Augustyn Rafał

Polish composer, music critic, scholar (Polish philology), b. Aug. 28, 1951 in Wrocław. In 1971-74 he studied composition with Ryszard Bukowski at the State Higher School of Music in Wrocław, subsequently – in 1975-78 – with Henryk Mikołaj Górecki at...

Baculewski Krzysztof

composer and teacher; b. 26th December 1950 in Warsaw. He studied composition with Witold Rudziński in the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw (degree in 1974), then continued his music studies in 1975-76 with Olivier Messiaen in Paris Conservatory...

Baliszewska Maria

Bartkowski Bolesław

Catholic priest, musicologist, theologist, and educator; b. 3rd March 1936 in Sarbice, d. 25th March 1998 in Lublin. Having completed the minor seminary in Twardogóra (1949-1951), a noviciate in Kopiec (near Częstochowa), and a philosophy programme at...

Bartmiński Jerzy

Berger Roman

Polish composer, pianist and theoretician of music, b. 9 Aug. 1930 in Cieszyn. From 1949 he studied theory with Jan Gawlas and piano with Marta Gabryś-Furmanik at the State Higher School of Music in Katowice. In 1952 Stalinist repression forced him to...

Bielawski Ludwik

ethnomusicologist, music theoretician; b. 27th July 1929 in Chojnice; d. 17th August, Warsaw. He first attended a Polish primary school (1936-44) and then a German-run one in Bursy. In 1944-45 he was a prisoner of the Nazi concentration camp in...

Bieńkowski Andrzej

painter, ethnographer, and photographer; b. 1946 in Warsaw. He studied painting under J. Cybis as well as graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, graduating in 1971. Since 1980 he has been heading the painting and drawing studio at the...

Bilica Krzysztof

musicologist as well as aphorist, essayist and prose writer; b. 5th June 1946 in Wrocław. In 1964–66 he studied law at the University of Wrocław, and in 1966–71 musicology at the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw, where in 1972 he defended...

Błaszczyk Bolesław

cellist; b. 29th May 1969 in Warsaw. In 1992 he graduated in musicology from the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw and in 1995 in cello performance from the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw in the class of prof. Wojciech Walasek. In 1992...

Błaszczyk Leon Tadeusz

musicologist, classical philologist, literature historian; b. 30th March 1923 in Warsaw; d. 27h December 2016 in Warsaw. He studied classical philology at the secret University of Warsaw, and after 1945 at the University of Poznań. He obtained his...

Bolesławska-Lewandowska Beata

Borkowski Marian

composer, musicologist, pianist, teacher, and organizer of musical life, b. 17 Aug. 1934 in Pabianice. He studied composition with Kazimierz Sikorski and piano with Jan Ekier and Natalia Hornowska at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw (1959-65;...

Borucka-Szotkowska Anna

Bristiger Michał

Bryk Aleksander

Budzińska-Bennett Agnieszka

Bursa Lech Karol

Bystroń Jan Stanisław

ethnologist and sociologist spceializing the history of Polish culture; b. 20th October 1892 in Kraków, d. 18th November 1964 in Warsaw. He was born to an Evangelical family of rural origins. His father was a philologist and middle school teacher,...

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

Chodkowski Andrzej

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

Cichy Daniel

Cieślak Artur

composer, pianist, music critic, and educator; b. 30th December 1968 in Szczecin. In 1987-92 he studied piano at the Academy of Music in Warsaw with Regina Smendzianka and Jerzy Romaniuk. In 1998-2003 he studied composition under Jan Astriab - first at...

Czekanowska-Kuklińska Anna

ethnomusicologist; b. 25th June 1929 in Lviv; d. 18th October 2021 in Warsaw. From 1947 to 1952 she studied musicology at the University in Poznań. She defended her master thesis on Folk song of the Opoczno Region against the background of ethnographic...