Andrzej Markowski (pseudonym Marek Andrzejewski), conductor and composer; born August 22, 1924, Lublin, died October 30, 1986, Warsaw. In 1939-41 he studied in Lublin with Artur Malawski (composition), and in 1943-44 in Warsaw with Marcelina Kimontt-Jacynowa (piano).

As a soldier of the Home Army, he took part in the Warsaw Uprising, then he was a prisoner of the Oflag in Murnau and an officer cadet of the II Corps of the Polish Armed Forces in the West.

In the years 1946-47 at Trinity College of Music in London he studied composition with Alec Rowley, and in the years 1947-55 at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw, composition with Piotr Rytel and Tadeusz Szeligowski, and conducting with Tadeusz Wilczak and Witold Rowicki.