Wanda Wiłkomirska

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Wanda Wiłkomirska

Wanda Wiłkomirska (born January 11, 1929 in Warsaw ; † May 1, 2018 ) was a Polish violinist .

Wiłkomirska received her first violin lessons from her father Alfred Wiłkomirski . She later studied with Irena Dubiska in Łódź , with Ede Zathureczky in Budapest and with Henryk Szeryng in Paris and won several international prizes. In the 1950s and 1960s she gave more than a hundred concerts a year and made numerous recordings.

She has performed in over fifty countries around the world with the great symphony orchestras under conductors such as Leonard Bernstein , Otto Klemperer , Sir John Barbirolli , Kurt Masur , Zubin Mehta , Carlo Maria Giulini , Wolfgang Sawallisch , Witold Rowicki , Erich Leinsdorf , Pierre Boulez , Eugen Jochum and Franz Konwitschny up.

Wiłkomirska recorded world premieres by contemporary composers such as Tadeusz Baird and Krzysztof Penderecki and received the Polish State Prize for the promotion of contemporary Polish music. In addition to her solo career, she also devoted herself to chamber music . With Maria Wiłkomirska and Kazimierz Wilkomirski they formed the Wilkomirski trio , from 1992 Werner Genuit and Christoph Richter , the Wiłkomirska trio . She was also the chamber music partner of musicians such as Martha Argerich , Gidon Kremer , Daniel Barenboim , Radu Lupu and Mischa Maisky .

She was extremely politically active: she supported the illegal democracy movement around the Committee for the Defense of Workers (KOR). In protest against the imposition of martial law in December 1981, she left her homeland and moved to the Federal Republic of Germany . In 1983 Wiłkomirska became a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim . From 1999 she taught at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music , from 2001 also at the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne .

Wiłkomirska was the first wife of the politician Mieczysław Rakowski , and the marriage resulted in two sons.

She was buried in the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw.

Discography

  • Wanda Wilkomirska plays Polish music by Paderewski, Bacewicz, Zarzycki and Bargielski, with Paul Dam, piano, Ambitus, amb97830
  • Prokofieff, Two Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Connaisseur Society, CD 4079
  • Works by Wieniawski, Lipinski and Bacewics with Jadwiga Szamotulska, Gambit 1003-1
  • Britten Violin Concerto Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under Witold Rowicki, soloist: Wanda Wilkomirska, 1967, Orchestral Concert CDs, CD12 / 2011
  • Karol Szymanowski, Violin Concerts 1 & 2, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under Witold Rowicki, soloist: Wanda Wilkomirska, 1961/1980, LP, Polskie Nagrania Muza (SX 2351)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary , accessed May 1, 2018
  2. ^ Wanda Wiłkomirska nie żyje. Wybitna skrzypaczka miała 89 lat gazeta.pl , May 1, 2018.
  3. ↑ Poland's nobility, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 4, 2018, p. 9.
  4. ↑ Pogrzeb skrzypaczki Wandy Wiłkomirskiej dzienniklodzki.pl , May 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Wiłkomirska, Wanda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish violinist
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH 1st May 2018