Bohdan Pilarski (b. 1931) – music critic, organizer of musical life, social and political activist died on 4 June 2018. In the years 1958-1978 he was a member of the Polish Composers' Union.
He studied at the Adam Mickiewicz University and the University of Warsaw. He graduated in 1957 with a master's thesis on Chopin's rondos under the guidance of prof. Fr. Hieronim Feicht. He was a member of the editorial team of the "Ruch Muzyczny" magazine. He also collaborated with the Polish Radio, implementing music programmes. In the years 1962-1965 he was living in France, studied history and aesthetics at the Sorbonne, as well as history of art and anthropology at the Collège de France. He worked in the Polish Section of the French Radio and Television. He refused to cooperate with the PRL intelligence. As a result, he was deprived by the "security authorities" of the possibility of foreign trips, permanent employment and cooperation with cultural institutions and media in the country. He spent a few years in the village of Krupki, where he took up scientific work and started to breed sheep. It was not until 1970 that he returned to Warsaw, where until 1973 he was the programme director of the National Philharmonic. He founded the "Young Philharmonic" club. In the 1980s he was the chairman of the Commune Board, he was a member of the Municipal and Commune Board in Wieruszów, the Citizens' Committee in Wieruszów and Kalisz. In the years 1989-1993 he was a member of the Polish delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. In 1992 he was a delegate of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to the International Conference of the Ministers of Culture of European countries in Paris. In 1993 he became the chairman of the SLCh party.