Stefan Rachoń

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Stefan Rachoń (born January 4, 1906 in Ostrów / Gmina Wilkołaz , † August 3, 2001 in Olsztyn ) was a Polish violinist and conductor .

Rachoń graduated from the State University of Music in Lublin and studied violin at the Warsaw Conservatory with Józef Jarzębski (1929–32) and Irena Dubiska (1932–34) and conducting with Grzegorz Fitelberg (1934–36). During his studies he worked as a silent film musician and made his debut in 1930 in a program for young talents on Polish radio. He became a member of one of the radio orchestras with which he performed in Warsaw. During the Second World War he led an orchestra with musicians from the Generalgouvernement in Cracow and Lublin.

In 1945 he founded the Warsaw Radio Symphony Orchestra , whose director and conductor he was until 1975 and which he continued as a conductor until 1980. With the orchestra made 10,000 archive and CD recordings of opera, operetta, symphony and light music, took part in song festivals in Opole, Sopot and Zielona Góra and accompanied singers at stage concerts and recordings in Poland and abroad (including in England , Czechoslovakia, the GDR, the Soviet Union and Hungary). For his work as a conductor he was awarded the Golden Microphone, the Knight's Cross, the Officer's Cross and the Commander's Cross with a Star of the Polonia Restituta Order.

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SURNAME Rachoń, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish violinist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Gmina Wilkołaz
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 2001
Place of death Olsztyn