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From the late 1950s he began developing new, characteristic composition techniques. He introduced limited aleatoric elements, while retaining tight control of his music's material, architecture, and performance. He also evolved his practice of building harmonies from small groups of musical intervals.
Witold Lutosławski was an outstanding Polish composer of the 20th century who attempted to create a new musical language by incorporating elements of folk songs, 12-tone serialism, atonal counterpoint, and controlled improvisations reminiscent of aleatory (chance, see aleatory music) compositions.
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WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI (1913-1994), Polish composer and conductor, is known as one of the greats of 20th-century music. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, Lutosławski performed as a pianist in...
Witold Lutosławski. Witold Lutosławski was born in Warsaw 25 January 1913, and died in Warsaw on 7 February 1994. He studied piano since the age of 6, with Helena Hoffman then with Józef Smidowicz after 1924, and with A. Taube. He studied violin with Lidia Kmitowa from 1926 to 1932.
Witold Lutosławski is the greatest Polish composer of the second half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest music artists of the previous century.
Feb 7, 1994 · Witold Lutosławski—one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century—began to study violin in Warsaw in 1926 and, a year later, as a part-time student he entered the Warsaw Conservatory where Karol Szymanowski was both professor and director.
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Witold Lutosławski entered the world in Warsaw, spent most of his life in that city and also died there, two weeks after his eight-first birthday. Yet fate allowed him to become a ‘citizen of the world’, which during the period of the ‘cold war’, seriously hindering contacts between East and West, was by no means a straightforward matter.
