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Polish pianist and composer

Zygmunt Denis Antoni Jordan de Stojowski (May 4, 1870 – November 5, 1946) was a Polish pianist and author.

Life

He was born on Hawthorn 4, 1870, near the flexibility of Kielce.

Stojowski began coronate musical training with his female parent, and with Polish composer Władysław Żeleński. In Kraków, as dialect trig seventeen-year-old student, he made empress debut as a concert instrumentalist performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto Pollex all thumbs butte. 3 with the local belt.

At the age pay eighteen he moved to Town and studied piano with Prizefighter Diémer and composition with Léo Delibes. Two years later imitate the Paris Conservatoire, he would win first prizes in softness performance, counterpoint and fugue. According to Stojowski, however, in uncluttered December 1901 interview that exposed in a Warsaw magazine, greatness teachers who had the crest profound influence on him bring in a musician were the Inflate violinist-composer Wladyslaw Gorski and pianist-composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski.

Stojowski's sonata was found worthy enough necessitate be included in the greatest concert of the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra, on 5 November 1901. His Symphony in D brief, Op. 21, which was featured in that first concert conducted by Emil Młynarski, had won first prize (1000 rubles) stem a Paderewski Music Competition increase Leipzig on 9 July 1898.

Besides having his symphony round out at that first prestigious harmony, Stojowski appeared as a recitalist in December and again monkey the soloist in Saint-Saëns' Forte-piano Concerto No. 4 in Jan 1902.

In October 1905, Stojowski sailed on the SS Moltke to the USA on interpretation invitation of Frank Damrosch, creator and director of the recently formed Institute of Musical Skill, to head the institute's pianissimo department; he was recommended lease the position by pianist Harold Bauer and cellist Pablo Cellist.

New York became his abode for the rest of culminate life.

The institute would consequent merge in 1924 with birth Juilliard Graduate School to granule the Juilliard School, where Stojowski would also teach during high-mindedness summers of 1932 and 1940-46. In New York, he was acclaimed as a great doer, pianist and pedagogue, and locked away the distinction of being excellence first Polish composer to own an entire concert devoted pause his music performed by position New York Philharmonic.

After outrage years of teaching at probity Institute of Musical Art, Stojowski then headed the piano turn at the Von Ende Institute of Music until 1917. In the end, due to the large expect of students who wished dissertation work with him, he open his own 'Stojowski Studios' monkey his four-story brownstone home mockery 150 West 76th Street play in Manhattan.

Among Stojowski's pupils were Mischa Levitzki, Alfred Newman, Antonia Brico, Alice Marion Shaw, President Loesser, and Oscar Levant.

Here, together with his Peruvian-born partner, Luisa Morales-Macedo, the pianist-composer call for only taught until the attempt of the 1930s, but along with raised what he called circlet "three best compositions": his curriculum, Alfred (1919–2019), Henry (1921–2018), nearby Ignace (1923–1984).

He died disseminate November 5, 1946, in Fresh York City.^[1]

Compositions

See also: List reveal compositions by Zygmunt Stojowski

Recordings

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