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Karol Maciej Szymanowski ( Polish pronunciation: [ˈkarɔl ˈmat͡ɕɛj ʂɨmaˈnɔfskʲi]; 3 October 1882 – 29 March 1937) [a] [1] was a Polish composer and pianist. He was a member of the modernist Young Poland movement that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Karol Szymanowski (born Oct. 6, 1882, Timoshovka, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died March 29, 1937, Lausanne, Switz.) was the foremost Polish composer of the early 20th century. Szymanowski began to compose and play the piano at an early age.
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Biography of Polish composer, Karol Szymanowski. Composer, born October 3, 1882 in Tymoszówka, died March 29, 1937 in Lausanne. Karol Szymanowski spent his childhood years on an estate in Tymoszówka, Ukraine. His musical, wealthy family was one of the many to relocate there after the partitions of Poland.
Szymanowski's artistic interests began to focus more and more on Polish folk music, especially that of the Podhale and Kurpie regions. Declining the position of Director of the Cairo Conservatory in 1926, Szymanowski was appointed Master of the Warsaw Conservatory, a post he held from February 22, 1927 to August 31, 1929.
Karol Szymanowski and his four siblings led charmed lives as hedonistic layabouts, reading, performing music, playing tennis and cricket, eating and, by preference, drinking to their hearts’ content.
Learn about the life and works of Karol Szymanowski, one of Poland's most important composers after Chopin. Explore his piano music, operas, ballets, and folk-inspired compositions.
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Szymanowski was a composer and a humanist, a creator with commitment; he lived and worked in the times of the significant transformations taking place in art at the turn of the 19th and...
