Bolesław Woytowicz

Bolesław Woytowicz ( born December 5, 1899 in Dunaivtsi, † June 11, 1980 in Katowice ) was a Polish composer, pianist and music teacher.

Woytowicz had piano lessons from 1913 and 1916-17 was a student of Aleksander Wielhorski. After studying philology at the University of Kiev, as well as mathematics and Law in Warsaw, he studied from 1920 to 1924 at the Warsaw Conservatory in piano and composition with Aleksander Michałowski Felicjan Szopski and Witold Maliszewski. From 1929 to 1932 he studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris.

In 1924 he undertook a concert tour as a pianist through Europe, among other things, it led by France, Germany and Austria, Czechoslovakia and Switzerland, the Netherlands and the Baltic states. In 1927 he took part in the First International Chopin Competition in Warsaw. With his Piano Concerto in 1932, he won the Second Prize at the Kronenberg Composition Competition.

From 1924 to 1939 taught Woytowicz at the Warsaw Conservatory. In the time of World War II, he organized concerts in the salon Sztuki, where musicians such as Eugenia Uminska, Irena Dubiska, Witold Lutosławski, Andrzej Panufnik, Zbigniew Drzewiecki, Paweł Lewiecki, Ewa Bandrowska - Turska, Vittoria Calma, Ada Sari and Adam Didur occurred.

From 1945 to 1975 headed Woytowicz piano and composition classes at the State Academy of Music in Katowice. He also taught at the State Academy of Music in Warsaw and Krakow Academy of Music. Among his students the pianist Urszula Mitręga, Zofia Owińska, Irena Protasewicz, Monika Sikora- Wojtacha, Maria Szraiber and Zbigniew Śliwiński and the composer Tadeusz Baird, Wojciech Kilar, Witold Szalonek, Józef Świder, Romuald Twardowski and Peter Paul Koprowski.

Works

• Dwa mazurki for piano, 1928
• Wariacje for piano, 1928
• Dwanascie Pieśni for Voice and Piano, 1928-30
• FANTAZJA for Violin and Piano, 1929
• Sonata for Piano, 1929
• Trzy tance for piano, 1930
• Trio na flet i klarnet fagot, 1930
• L' enfant va dormir for soprano, flute, bassoon and harp, 1930
• Oberek for piano, 1930
• Mala Kantata Dziecięcą na pochwale Bozi i slonca for three-voice children's choir a cappella, 1931
• Kwartet smyczkowy nr 1 ( String Quartet ), 1932
• Koncert fortepianowy ( Piano Concerto ), 1932
• Koncertowa Suita for orchestra, 1933
• Dwa tance polskie for voice, violin, cello and piano, 1933
• Zalobny poemat ' Pamieci Marszałka Pilsudskiego ' for symphony orchestra, 1935
• Concertino for small symphony orchestra, 1936
• Powrót, Ballet, 1937
• Symfonia nr 1, 20 variations in the form of a symphony, 1938
• Symfonia nr 2 ' Warszawska ', 1945
• Recitative for Violin or Cello and Organ, 1946
• Recitativo e arietta for piano, 1947
• Dwanascie etiud for piano, 1948
• Kantata na pochwale pracy for solo voices, mixed choir and orchestra, 1948
• Sześć Szkiców symfonicznych for symphony orchestra, 1949
• Nasza Piesn for mixed choir or mixed choir and symphony orchestra or voice and piano, 1950
• Prorok, cantata for BAss, choir and symphony orchestra, 1950
• Pokój for voice or choir and piano or chorus a cappella, 1951
• Sonata na flet i fortepian, 1952
• Kwartet smyczkowy nr 2, 1953
• Trzy Ludowe Pieśni slaskie for mixed choir, 1955
• Lamento, Vocalise for soprano, clarinet and piano or soprano and symphony orchestra, 1957, 1959
• The Great Fugue for string quartet and two string ensemble, 1958
• Dziesiec etiud for piano, 1960
• Symfonia nr 3 ' piano concertante ' for piano and orchestra, 1963
• Miniatura for violin and piano or violin, viola and cello, 1966
• Mala sonata for piano, 1977
• De profundis for voice and orchestra, 1977

Swell

• Kultura polska - Bolesław Woytowicz
• Bolesław Woytowicz in Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available )
• Biblioteka Narodowa - Bolesław Woytowicz

• Polish composer
• Classic pianist
• Music teacher
• Born in 1899
• Died in 1980
• Man