Andrzej Chłopecki
Andrzej Chłopecki (born January 21, 1950 in Bydgoszcz ; † September 23, 2012 ) was a Polish musicologist and critic.
Chłopecki graduated from the Institute of Musicology at the University of Warsaw with Zofia Lissa in 1975 with a thesis on Krzysztof Penderecki's St. Luke Passion . He took part in the Darmstadt summer courses several times and was a scholarship holder of the Fondation pour une Entraide Intellectuelle (1980), the Institute for Human Sciences (1984), the Alban Berg Foundation (1986) and the Polish Ministry of Culture (1990).
From 1975 to 1981 and from 1991 he was an employee of the Polish Radio in the New Music department and during this time the author of around 2,000 programs. From 1982 to 1991 he was an assistant, then a lecturer at the Kraków Music Academy, as well as editor and head of the advertising department of the Warsaw branch of the Polish Music Publishing House. From 1996 he taught the history and aesthetics of music of the 20th and 21st centuries at the Katowice Music Academy, from 2000 he also taught at the Institute for Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
From 1986 to 1995 he was editor for new music at Deutschlandfunk in Cologne and from 1993 to 1997 he was a columnist for the monthly magazine Res Publica Nowa . Since 1992 he has worked for MusikTexte in Cologne and since 2001 for Gazeta Świąteczna . Since 1999 he has been a member of the program committee of the Warsaw Autumn Festival . From 2001 he was in charge of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation's Award for Poland project , in the context of which 34 works by young Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian, Slovak, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian and Slovenian composers were created. Chłopecki has received several awards from the Polish Radio, the Mozart Medal from the UNESCO International Music Council (2003) and the Medal of Honor from the Polish Composers' Association (2003).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chłopecki, Andrzej |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish musicologist and critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bydgoszcz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23rd September 2012 |