Józef Michał Chomiński

Józef Michał Chomiński (born August 24, 1906 in Ostrów , † February 20, 1994 in Warsaw ) was a Polish musicologist.

Chomiński studied composition and conducting with Adam Sołtys in Lviv . After the state examination he taught at the Malwina-Reyss-Musikinstitut and worked as a choir conductor and as Korepetiror at the Lemberg Opera House. He also studied musicology at the University of Lemberg with Adolf Chybiński . He graduated here in 1931 and obtained his doctorate in 1936 with a thesis on Edvard Grieg .

From 1937 until the outbreak of the Second World War, Chomiński was an employee of the National Library and librarian of the Warsaw Conservatory. After the war he became a professor at the Music Academy in Poznań. After a spa stay in Switzerland, he took over the management of the magazine Kwartalnik Muzyczny . From 1949 he taught at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Warsaw , where he received a professorship in 1960. From 1951 to 1959 he also headed the section (or faculty) he founded of the State Art Institute (later: Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences).

As a teacher and author of a large number of works on music theory and history, Chomiński was formative for several generations of Polish musicologists. As his most important works, some of which he wrote with his wife, Krystyna Wilkowska-Chomińska , are the five-volume Formy muzyczne (Kraków 1954–84), the Historia harmonii i contrapuntu in three volumes (1958–1990) and the two-volume Historia muzyki powszechnej (1989-90).

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SURNAME	Chomiński, Józef Michał
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 24, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gmina Ostrów
DATE OF DEATH	February 20, 1994
Place of death	Warsaw