Music Academy Łódź
| Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Music Academy Lodz Akademia Muzyczna im. Grażyny i Kiejstuta Bacewiczów w Łodzi |
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| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Łódź , Poland |
| Rector | Cezary Sanecki |
| Website | www.amuz.lodz.pl |
The Music Academy Łódź ( Polish Akademia Muzyczna im. Grażyny i Kiejstuta Bacewiczów w Łodzi ) is a music school in the Polish city of Łódź . It was founded at the beginning of the 20th century as the Helena Kijeńska Dobkiewiczowa Music Conservatory.
history
Immediately after the end of the Second World War in Poland, the music academy was reopened as a state music conservatory on April 18, 1945 and renamed the State University of Music in April 1946. In 1982 it became a music academy again and in 1999 it was named Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz .
The first rector of the school was Kazimierz Wiłkomirski , and vice-rector Helena Kijeńska-Dobkiewiczowa .
At that time there were four faculties:
- Faculty I: Music Theory, Composition and Conducting (Dean Kazimierz Sikorski )
- Faculty II: Instrumental Music (Dean Maria Wiłkomirska )
- Faculty III: Vocal Music (Dean Adela Comte-Wilgocka )
- Faculty IV: Musical Education (Dean Mieczysław Kacperczyk )
Faculties
- Faculty of Composition, Music Theory, Conducting, Music Education and Rhythmics
- Faculty of piano, organ, harpsichord, early music and jazz
- Faculty of Instrumental Music
- Faculty of Singing and Drama
The university location
Since 1945, the main location of the Music Academy has been the palace at 32 Gdańska Street (Danziger Street), which was built in 1904 by the industrialist Izrael Poznański for his son Karol Poznański based on a design by Adolf Zeligson . During the German occupation, the building was the seat of the municipal music school, which operated until almost the end of 1944.
In October 2013 the newly furnished concert hall with excellent acoustics and high-quality systems for sound reinforcement, the professional recording studio and the teaching facilities were officially inaugurated and opened. At the beginning of the 2014/2015 semester, the modern building of the regional culture, education and documentation center was opened, which includes a library and a music library, lecture halls, practice rooms and a chamber music hall.
The rectors from 1945
- Kazimierz Wiłkomirski (1945–1947)
- Kazimierz Sikorski (1947–1954)
- Mieczysław Drobner (1954–1957)
- Kiejstut Bacewicz (1957–1969)
- Zenon Płoszaj (1969–1981)
- Zygmunt Gzella (1981-1987)
- Aleksander Kowalczyk (1987-1993)
- Bogdan Dowlasz (1993–1999)
- Anna Wesołowska-Firlej (1999-2005)
- Antoni Wierzbiński (2005–2012)
- Cezary Sanecki (since 2012)
Honorary doctorates
The Senate of the University of Music awards honorary doctorates to important personalities of musical art and regional music culture in Łódź and the Academy. This title was awarded to:
- Aleksander Tansman (1986)
- Kiejstut Bacewicz (1993)
- Zenon Płoszaj (1996)
- Franciszek Wesołowski (1999)
- Teresa Kubiak (2005)
- Wanda Wiłkomirska (2006)
- Jerzy Semkow (2013)
- Zygmunt Krauze (2015)
- Stanisław Firlej (2015)
- Teresa Żylis-Gara (2016)
Academy personalities
- Ryszard Daniel Golianek
- Marta Szoka
- Jan Targowski
- Irena Wisełka-Cieślar
- Antoni Wierzbiński
- Bogusław Wódka
literature
- Zygmunt Gzella et al .: Z dziejów Akademii Muzycznej w Łodzi: (materiały historyczne). tape 1 : Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Muzyczna. 1945-1975 . Wydaw. Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 1991, ISBN 83-7016-400-5 (Polish).
- Lucjan Cieślak: Muzyka Łodzi: z dziejów Akademii Muzycznej w Łodzi. (= Zeszyt Naukowy - Akademia Muzyczna w Łodzi ). Wydaw. AM, Łódź 1998, OCLC 830289078 .
Web links
- Homepage (Polish, English)
