Zbigniew Drzewiecki

Zbigniew Drzewiecki ( born April 8, 1890 in Warsaw, † April 11, 1971 ibid ) was a Polish pianist and music teacher.

Drzewiecki had first piano lessons from his father, then with Feliks Konopasek, Włodzimierz Oberfelt and Robert Becker. He also studied music theory and violin at Ignacy Pilecki. In 1909 he went for a technical degree to Vienna, where he attended the piano class of Carl Prohaska at the Music Academy. He then continued his musical education at Paul de Conne and Brno with Heinrich Janoch. Between 1911 and 1915 he studied at the Leschetitzky - pupil Marie Prentner in Vienna. In 1928, he completed his training at Ignacy Jan Paderewski.

As a concert pianist, he made ​​his debut in 1915 in the Warsaw Philharmonic, Concert tours to France, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Sweden and Latvia. Part of his repertoire was the work of Fryderyk Chopin, in addition, he played alongside the great piano literature of the classical and romantic also often works by contemporary Polish composers such as Michał Kondracki Jan Maklakiewicz, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Roman Palester, Bolesław Szabelski, Antoni Szalowski and Karol Szymanowski.

From 1916 he taught at the Music Institute in Warsaw, in 1931 he became professor of the advanced piano courses at the Warsaw Conservatory. In addition, he also taught at the conservatories of Lviv and Krakow. During the German occupation was Drzewiecki in Warsaw underground concerts and music lessons. In 1945 he organized the reopening of the Krakow Academy of Music and became its first president after the war. From 1955 he was also a professor at the State Academy of Music in Warsaw. At both schools he taught until his retirement in 1961. Among his many students count concert pianists Jan Bereżyński, Felicja Blumental, Jan Ekier, Roman Jasinski, Aleksander Kagan, Bolesław Kon, Michał Kondracki, Sergiusz Nadgryzowski and Tatiana Woytaszewska before the war, and after 1945 Ryszard Bakst, Halina Czerny- Stefańska, Lidia Grychtołówna, Fou Ts'ong, Adam Harasiewicz, Waldemar Maciszewski, Włodzimierz Obidowicz, Teresa Rutkowska and Regina Smendzianka.

Drzewiecki was one of the co-founders of the International Chopin Competition. Since its founding in 1927, he was one of many to the jurors; 1949, 1955, 1960 and 1965, he headed the jury. He also worked as a music journalist, and published works by Domenico Scarlatti, George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Carl Czerny, Franciszek Lessel and Karol Szymanowski.

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  • Man
  • Born in 1890
  • Died in 1971
  • Classic pianist
  • Music teacher
  • Person (Warsaw)
  • Pole
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