Adam Kopyciński (conductor)

Adam Kopyciński (born August 5, 1907 in Osielec , † October 3, 1982 in Wroclaw ) was a Polish conductor, pianist, singer and composer.

Kopyciński began his musical education in 1928 at the Krakow Music Society Conservatory and the city's music school. He studied singing with Konstanty Kniaginin and Janina Kryształowiczowa , led an academic choir from 1929 and sang small baritone roles at the Kraków Opera from 1931. In 1932 he started teaching in Krakow. From 1933 to 1935 he continued his music studies in the subjects piano, composition and conducting in Budapest. Before the Second World War he worked as a choir conductor in Kraków and Katowice. From 1942 to 1945 he was a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp , where he was a member and, as the successor to Franz Nierychlo, director of the camp orchestra.

From 1945 to 1949 Kopyciński attended the conducting class of Walerian Bierdiajew , from 1946 to 1949 he also worked as a répétiteur and choirmaster at the Kraków Opera and appeared as a guest conductor with the Warsaw Philharmonic and the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. From 1949 to 1976 he worked in various functions (director 1951–1953 and 1961–1970, deputy artistic director 1951 and 1953–1961, conductor 1970–1976) at the Breslau Opera. He was also a conductor from 1954 to 1957 and director of the Wroclaw Symphony Orchestra from 1958 to 1961.

From 1956 to 1973 he taught at the Wroclaw Music Academy . There he was dean of the Faculty of Education and Teaching from 1956–1957, rector of the academy from 1957 to 1963 and dean of the department for music theory, composition and conducting from 1963 to 1973. As a composer he appeared with songs and works for the Polish radio.

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SURNAME	Kopyciński, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish conductor, pianist, singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	5th August 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Osielec
DATE OF DEATH	3rd October 1982
Place of death	Wroclaw