Krystyna Kobylańska

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Krystyna Kobylańska (born August 6, 1925 in Brest , † January 30, 2009 in Milanówek ) was a Polish musicologist.

Life

Kobylańska was sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp as a teenager , but she survived. After the liberation of Poland, she studied piano at the Warsaw Conservatory and musicology at the Warsaw University . From 1951 to 1966 she worked for the Polish Chopin Society and headed the Warsaw Chopin Museum . In 1966/67 she lived in Paris and continued her Chopin studies at the Center national de la recherche scientifique .

In addition to numerous articles, she published a catalog raisonné of Chopin's works (abbreviation: KK) and various editions of his correspondence.

Works

  • Korespondencja Chopina z rodziną ( Chopin's correspondence with the family ), Warsaw 1972
  • Frédéric Chopin. Thematic-bibliographical catalog raisonné , Munich: Henle 1979
  • Korespondencja Chopina z George Sand i jej dziećmi ( Chopin's correspondence with George Sand and her children ), 2 volumes, Warsaw 1981
  • Frédéric Chopin, Letters , Berlin 1983

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Polskie Radio website

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Kobylańska, Krystyna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Brest
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2009
Place of death Milanówek