Stanisław Wisłocki

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Stanisław Wisłocki

Stanisław Wisłocki (born July 7, 1921 in Rzeszów , † May 31, 1998 in Warsaw ) was a Polish composer , conductor , pianist and music teacher .

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Wisłocki began his musical training with Seweryn Barbag in Lviv. He then studied conducting and composition with George Simonis and piano with Emil Michail in Timisoara and Bucharest . From 1942 to 1945 he was a student of George Enescu . In Romania he also began his career as a pianist and conductor.

In 1945 he returned to Poland and took over the direction of the Warsaw Chamber Orchestra. In 1947 he founded the Poznan Symphony Orchestra, which he directed for eleven years. From 1961 to 1967 he was conductor at the Warsaw National Philharmonic and from 1978 to 1982 artistic director of the Katowice Radio Symphony Orchestra. He performed all over Europe, the USA, South America and Japan and received a. a. the Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy for a recording of Sergei Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto with Svyatoslaw Richter as well as prizes from the Polish Ministry of Culture and the Polish Composers' Association.

In 1951 Wisłocki took over the leadership of a conducting class at the State Music Academy in Poznan , in 1955 he became a professor at the Higher State Music School in Warsaw . His students included u. a. Tomasz Bugaj , Zbigniew Graca , Jacek Kaspszyk , Szymon Kawalla , Wojciech Michniewski , Andrzej Straszyński , Rubén Silva , Tadeusz Wojciechowski and Henryk Wojnarowski .

Works

  • Na rozstajach , symphonic poem (1942)
  • Sonata for violin and piano (1942)
  • Sonata na tematy Scarlattiego for piano (1942)
  • Two piano suites (1943)
  • Piano quartet (1943)
  • Symfonia nr 1 (1944)
  • Cztery poematy for tenor and chamber orchestra (1944)
  • Taniec zbójnicki for chamber orchestra (1945)
  • Uwertura for chamber orchestra (1945)
  • Nocturn for orchestra (1947)
  • Piano Concerto (1949)
  • Symfonia o tańcu for orchestra (1951)
  • Ballada symfoniczna for orchestra (1952)

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personal data
SURNAME Wisłocki, Stanisław
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish composer, conductor and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Rzeszów
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1998
Place of death Warsaw