February Anniversaries – Polish Music Center

Born This Month

2 February 1909 – Grazyna BACEWICZ , composer, violinist, pianist (d. 1969)
7 February 1877 – Feliks NOWOWIEJSKI, composer, organist
8 February 1953 – Mieszko GÓRSKI, composer, teacher (active in Gdansk and Koszalin)
9 February 1954 – Marian GORDIEJUK, composer, teacher, theorist (active in Bydgoszcz)
14 February 1882 – Ignacy FRIEDMAN, pianist and composer (d. 1948)
18 February 1881 – Zygmunt MOSSOCZY, opera singer (bass), chemist (d. 1962)
27 February 1898 – Bronislaw RUTKOWSKI, organist, music critic, conductor and composer (d. 1964)
28 February 1910 – Roman MACIEJEWSKI , composer, pianist (d. 1998 in Sweden)
28 February 1953 – Marcin BŁAŻEWICZ, composer, teacher (active in Warsaw

3 February 1959 – Stanisław GRUSZCZYŃSKI, tenor (active throughout Europe, b. 1891)
3 February 1929 – Antoni Wawrzyniec GRUDZIŃSKI, pianist, teacher, and music critic (active in Lódz and Warsaw, b. 1875)
7 February 1954 – Jan Adam MAKLAKIEWICZ, composer (active in Warsaw, b. 1899)
7 February 1994 – Witold LUTOSŁAWSKI, composer and conductor (b. 1913)
8 February 1909 – Mieczysław KARŁOWICZ, composer, conductor, writer (b. 1876)
9 February 1959 – Ignacy NEUMARK, composer and conductor (active in Copenhagen, Oslo and Schveningen, b. 1888)
10 February 1905 – Ignacy KRZYŻANOWSKI, pianist and composer (active in Kraków and Warsaw, b. 1826)
14 February 1957 – Wawrzyniec Jerzy ŻULAWSKI, composer, music critic, teacher, and mountain climber (b. 1916)
15 February 2010 – Adam KACZYŃSKI, pianist, composer and creator of the MW2 new music ensemble (b. 13 October 1933)
15 February 2010 – Marek JASIŃSKI, composer and professor in Bydgoszcz (b. 1949)
23 February 1957 – Stefan ŚLĄZAK, singer, organist, conductor (active in Silesia, b. 1889)
27 February 1831 – Józef KOZLOWSKI, composer (active at the Russian Court in Petersburg, b. 1757)
29 February 2004 – Witold RUDZIŃSKI, composer, music critic and teacher