Born This Month
- 1 January 1872 – Tadeusz JARECKI, conductor (d. 1955)
- 1 January 1911 – Roman TOTENBERG, violinist and pedagogue
- 1 January 1927 – Juliusz LUCIUK, composer, musicologist
- 2 January 1894 – Artur RODZIŃSKI, conductor, music director (d. 1958)
- 2 January 1907 – Henryk GADOMSKI, composer and conductor (d. 1941, Auschwitz)
- 3 January 1885 – Raoul KOCZALSKI (d. 1948), pianist and composer
- 13 January 1921 – Wanda WILK, founder of the Polish Music Center (d. 2009)
- 17 January 1898 – Jerzy LEFELD, pianist and piano professor
- 22 January 1944 – Vincent SKOWRONSKI, violinist
- 23 January 1888 – Jerzy GABLENZ, composer (d. 1937)
- 25 January 1913 – Witold LUTOSŁAWSKI, composer (d. 1994)
- 25 January 1928 – Andrzej CWOJDZINSKI, composer and conductor
- 28 January 1717 – Just Franciszek KASPER, priest, composer, conductor (d. 1760)
- 26 January 1886 – Artur RUBINSTEIN, pianist (d. 1981)
- 31 January 1926 – Stanislaw PRÓSZYNSKI, composer
Died This Month
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1 January 1953 – Ludomir RÓZYCKI (b. 1884), composer, pianist, member of the group Young Poland
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9 January 1842 – Józef KROGULSKI (b. 1815), pianist, conductor, voice teacher
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9 January 1981 – Kazimierz SEROCKI (b. 1922), composer, co-founder of the Warsaw Autumn Festival
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11 January 1935 – Marcellina SEMBRICH-KOCHAŃSKA (b. 1858), singer – coloratura soprano
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12 January 1934 – Pawel KOCHAŃSKI (b. 1878), virtuoso violinist, Szymanowski’s collaborator
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17 January 1969 – Grażyna BACEWICZ (b. 1909), composer, violinist, pianist
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19 January 1951 – Stanislaw GOLACHOWSKI (b. 1907), musicologist
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21 January 1618 – Krzystof KRAINSKI [Crainscius], preacher, author of a song collection (b. 1556)
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21 January 2016 – Boguslaw KACZYNSKI, journalist, TV broadcaster, music theorist (b. 1942)
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23 January 1921- Władysław ŻELEŃSKI, composer (b. 1837)
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23 January 1946 – Feliks NOWOWIEJSKI (b. 1877), composer, conductor, organist
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26 January 1946 – Ignacy FRIEDMAN, composer and virtuoso pianist (b. 1882)