Zygmunt stojowski biography
Zygmunt Stojowski
Polish pianist and composer
Zygmunt Denis Antoni Jordan de Stojowski (May 4, &#;&#; November 5, ) was a Polish pianist and composer.
Zygmunt stojowski biography children Stojowski composed numerous pieces for piano, chamber and orchestral music. He was born on May 4, , near the city of Kielce. Source: www. RetrievedLife
He was born on May 4, , near the city of Kielce. Stojowski began his musical training with his mother, and with Polish composer Władysław Żeleński. In Kraków, as a seventeen-year-old student, he made his debut as a concert pianist performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the local orchestra.
At the age of eighteen he moved to Paris and studied piano with Louis Diémer and composition with Léo Delibes.
Zygmunt stojowski biography In , he moved to the U. Toggle the table of contents. Authority control databases. Sigismond Stojowski, distinguished Polish pianist and composer, who had lived in New York for the last forty years, died last night at his home, 16 East Ninety-sixth Street, after a long illness at the age ofTwo years later at the Paris Conservatoire, he would win first prizes in piano performance, counterpoint and fugue. According to Stojowski, however, in a December interview that appeared in a Warsaw magazine, the teachers who had the most profound influence on him as a musician were the Polish violinist-composer Wladyslaw Gorski and pianist-composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski.
Stojowski's music was found worthy enough to be included in the first concert of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, on 5 November His Symphony in D minor, Op. 21, which was featured in that first concert conducted by Emil Młynarski, had won first prize ( rubles) in a Paderewski Music Competition in Leipzig on 9 July Besides having his symphony performed at that first prestigious concert, Stojowski appeared as a recitalist in December and again as the soloist in Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No.
4 in January
In October , Stojowski sailed on the SS Moltke to the USA on the invitation of Frank Damrosch, founder and director of the newly formed Institute of Musical Art, to head the institute's piano department; he was recommended for the position by pianist Harold Bauer and cellist Pablo Casals. New York became his home for the rest of his life.
Zygmunt stojowski biography wikipedia Stojowski composed numerous pieces for piano, chamber and orchestral music. Polish Pianist, While a student in Paris, Stojowski listened to lectures in history, philosophy, languages and literature at the Sorbonne, and befriended Peter Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms. Deutsche Biographie DDB.The institute would later merge in with the Juilliard Graduate School to form the Juilliard School, where Stojowski would also teach during the summers of and In New York, he was acclaimed as a great composer, pianist and pedagogue, and had the distinction of being the first Polish composer to have an entire concert devoted to his music performed by the New York Philharmonic.
After six years of teaching at the Institute of Musical Art, Stojowski then headed the piano department at the Von Ende School of Music until Finally, due to the large number of students who wished to work with him, he opened his own 'Stojowski Studios' at his four-story brownstone home at West 76th Street in Manhattan. Among Stojowski's pupils were Mischa Levitzki, Alfred Newman, Antonia Brico, Alice Marion Shaw, Arthur Loesser, and Oscar Levant.
Here, together with his Peruvian-born wife, Luisa Morales-Macedo, the pianist-composer not only taught until the end of the s, but also raised what he called his "three best compositions": his sons, Alfred (–), Henry (–), and Ignace (–).
He died on November 5, , in New York City.[1]
Compositions
See also: List of compositions by Zygmunt Stojowski