Alojzy Stolpe (pianist)
Alojzy Stolpe (* 1784 ; † May 30, 1824 in Warsaw ) was a Polish pianist, music teacher and composer.
Stolpe taught music from 1809 to 1812 at the Piarist Convention in Warsaw. He also gave private piano lessons and performed in concerts. In 1818 he and his brother Antoni Stolpe prepared a report on the organs in Warsaw's Protestant churches. In 1819 he trained as a concert pianist in two classes at the Warsaw Conservatory. He also taught clavichord at the Szkola Dramatyczna . His students included Feliks Ostrowski , to whom he dedicated a polonaise for piano, and Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki . In 1821 he was accepted into the Rycerze Gwiazdy Masonic Lodge .
As a composer, Stolpe stood out primarily with polonaises and variations, such as the Dix variations pour le pianoforte (1807-08), dedicated to Helena Ostrowska , the Polonaise pour le fortepiano avec accompagnement d'un flageolet, violon ou flűte ... (1820), the Douze differentes danses ... na fortepian (1823) and the Wariacje C major na skrzypce i fortepian (1823). A collection of his polonaises was published by Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig around 1813 . He was considered an excellent composer whose works were compared with those of Michał Kleofas Ogiński . Alojzy Stolpe was the grandfather of the composer Antoni Stolpe .
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| SURNAME | Stolpe, Alojzy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish pianist, music teacher and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1784 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 1824 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |