Jan Drozdowski (pianist)
Jan Drozdowski (born February 2, 1857 in Kraków , † January 21, 1918 ) was a Polish pianist and music teacher.
Drozdowski was the son of Stanisław Magdzicki , who took part in the Cracow uprising and founded one of the first piano factories in Poland under the name Jan Drozdowski in Cracow. His son received a thorough musical education. He studied first with Kazimierz Hofman and Antoni Płachecki and from 1876 to 1880 at the Vienna Conservatory piano with Josef Dachs and music theory with Anton Bruckner . After returning to Poland, he was still a student of Aleksander Michałowski .
During this time he joined the circles of socialist activists around Ludwik Waryński and was charged with him in 1880 and sentenced to one year in prison. In 1889 he was first a teacher of piano, and later also of music theory at the Cracow Academy of Music. He was very interested in many things, was an enthusiastic supporter of the Esperanto movement and published a novella in 1888 under the pseudonym Dyzma Zimorowicz . Above all, he has written numerous music education textbooks, including Technika gry na fortepianie , Ćwiczenia przygotowawcze na fortepian , Systematyczna szkoła gry na fortepianie , Szkoła studiów na fortepian ułożona for etiud różnych kompozytorów , Uwagi nad mechanizmem gry na fortepianie , Zasady muzyki and Zarys historii muzyki .
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| SURNAME | Drozdowski, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish pianist and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krakow |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1918 |