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2 May 1846: Zygmunt NOSKOWSKI (d. 23 July 1909), composer
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2 May 1913: Florian DABROWSKI, composer and teacher
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5 May 1819: Stanislaw
MONIUSZKO (d. 4 June 1872), composer – Father of Polish Opera
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12 May 1805: Jan Nepomucen BOBROWICZ (d. 2 November 1881), guitarist and composer
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17 May 1943: Joanna
BRUZDOWICZ, composer living in France, 2003 PMC Paderewski Lecturer
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18 May 1905: Wlodzimierz ORMICKI, composer, conductor, music theoretician
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20 May 1903: Jerzy FITELBERG (d. 25 April 1951), composer, son of the famous conductor
- 20 May : Juliana GONDEK, Polish-American mezzo-soprano and vocal pedagogue
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28 May 1836: Jan KARŁOWICZ (d. 14 June 1903), father of composer Mieczysław
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29 May 1903: Marian NEUTEICH (d. 1943, Warsaw), composer and cellist
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31 May 1932: Boguslaw MADEY, conductor and composer
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31 May 1913: Irena GARZTECKA (d. 14 November 1963), composer and pianist
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1 May 1948: Marcel POPLAWSKI (b. 1882), composer and teacher, studied law and engineering before turning to composition
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4 May 1896: Józef SIKORSKI (b. 1813), composer and music theorist
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6 May 1892: Nikodem BIERNACKI (b. 1826), violinist and composer
8 May 2012: Roman
TOTENBERG (b. 1911), violinist
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10 May 1964: Hanna SKALSKA-SZEMIOTH (b. 29 April 1921), composer, student of Sikorski
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13 May 1958: Eugeniusz MOSSAKOWSKI (b. 1885), opera singer (baritone)
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21 May 1848: Felix JANIEWICZ (b. 1762), violinist, conductor, and composer
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21 May 2007: Adam FALKIEWICZ (b. 4 Jan 1980), composer
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23 May 1957: Alicja SIMON (b.1879), musicologist
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25 May 1917: Edward RESZKE (b. 1853), opera singer (bass), brother of Jan
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31 May 2006: Franciszek WYBRAŃCZYK (b. 28 May 1934), co-founder and former director of the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra, organizer and promoter of Polish and European music