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Lutosławski, Witold

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Polish composer and conductor. His output includes three symphonies, Paroles tissées/Teased Words (1965) for tenor and chamber orchestra, dedicated to the singer Peter Pears, and Chain I for orchestra (1981). For 30 years he conducted most of the world's leading orchestras in his own compositions, and was greatly influential both within and beyond his native land. His early major compositions, such as Variations on a Theme of Paganini (1941) for two pianos and First Symphony (1941–47), drew some criticism from the communist government. After 1956, under a more liberal regime, he adopted avant-garde techniques, including improvisatory and aleatoric (chance) forms, in Venetian Games (1961). Lutosławski was born in Warsaw while it was still part of the Russian Empire. He spent part of his early childhood in Moscow – the family moved there in 1915 to escape from the German Army – where his father was arrested by the Bolsheviks and summarily executed in 1918. He returned to Warsaw and began…
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Full text Article Witold Lutoslawski (1913–1994)

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Full text Article Lutosławski, Witold

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(born Jan. 25, 1913, Warsaw, Pol.—died Feb. 7, 1994, Warsaw) Polish composer. Trained in Warsaw, he initially became known as a pianist. His international reputation was secured by the premiere of his Concerto for Orchestra (1954), full of colour and based on folk elements, and later the Funeral…
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He studied piano privately with Śmidowicz (1924–25) and with Lefeld at the Warsaw Conservatory (1932–36); took violin with Kmitowa (1926–32) and composition with Maliszewski (from 1928), receiving diplomas in these areas from the Warsaw Conservatory in 1936 and 1937. After a year of service in the…
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Full text Article Casken, John (Arthur)

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English composer whose work has been influenced by Polish music and serialism. His first opera, Golem (1989), won the first Britten Award for Musical Composition in 1990 and the Gramophone Award for Best Contemporary Recording in 1991. Casken was born in Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire. He…
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Full text Article Fischer, Johann Christian

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German oboist and composer. Concert tours took him in 1768 to London, England, where he settled, marrying the daughter of the painter Thomas Gainsborough in 1780. He played frequently at the concerts promoted by Johann Christian Bach and Carl Abel (1768–81), and was a member of the queen's band. He…
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Full text Article Woytowicz, Bolesław

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Polish pianist and composer. He began by studying mathematics and philosophy at Kiev University and law at Warsaw University, but turned to the piano, which he studied at the Chopin High School at Warsaw, where he later became a teacher. He next took to composition, studying first with Felicjan…
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Full text Article Lutosławski, Witold

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Polish composer and conductor. His output includes three symphonies, Paroles tissées/Teased Words (1965) for tenor and chamber orchestra, dedicated to the singer Peter Pears, and Chain I for orchestra (1981). For 30 years he conducted most of the world's leading orchestras in his own compositions, …
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Full text Article Lutosławski, Witold

From The New Penguin Dictionary of Music
Polish composer. Drawn in his youth by music coming from Paris (by Stravinsky and others), he gained an agility of rhythm and luminosity of texture he kept all his life, through a time when Bartók's influence was paramount to a sportive engagement, after 1960, with principles of freedom emanating…
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Full text Article Cowie, Edward

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English composer. Several of his works are based on the story of the Australian criminal Ned Kelly. His interest in painting is reflected in the Choral Symphony of 1982, subtitled Symphonies of Rain, Sea and Speed . After studying with Alexander Goehr, Peter Fricker, and Witold Lutoslawski, he…
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Full text Article CASKEN, Prof John

From Debrett's People of Today 2017
b. 15 July 1949 Barnsley and Dist Holgate GS, Univ of Birmingham (BMus, MA), Univ of Durham (DMus), Acad of Music Warsaw lectr in music Univ of Birmingham 1973–79, fell in composition Huddersfield Poly 1980–81, lectr in music Univ of Durham 1981–92, prof of music Univ of Manchester 1992–2008…
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