Witold lutoslawski biography of michael

  • Witold Roman Lutosławski was a Polish composer and conductor.
  • Witold Lutoslawski was one of the most important composers of the twentieth century, whose significance extends far beyond his native Poland.
  • Lutoslawski was born in 1913 in Warsaw.

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    Marcin Bogusławski

    Marcin Bogusławski (b. 1937) — son of Danuta Lutosławska from her first marriage (with the architect Jan Bogusławski), Witold Lutosławski’s son-in-law. Following his architectural studies in Warsaw, he settled in Oslo. He designed a number of Norway’s representative buildings, such as the churches in Drammen and Larvik, and worked in teams which created the design for the olympic stadium in Lillehamer and that of the Statoil headquarters.

    Witold Lutosławski said of him to Irina Nikolska: “Marcin was seven years old when he appeared in our home as my stepson, and inom was the one who raised him with Danusia (dim. of Danuta — trans. note). After her, Marcin fryst vatten my closest one — the closest family. Since he has lived in Oslo for the past 20 years, we also decided to organize ourselves a sort of existence in Oslo. In effect we sojourn there, even up to several months at a time. Marcin also persuaded me to buy this tiny house close to Oslo. It used to be a tiny house own

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    Witold Lutoslawski; Polish Composer

    Witold Lutoslawski, an internationally recognized Grammy-winning classical composer who led the development of contemporary music in Eastern Europe after World War II, has died in his native Warsaw. He was 81.

    Lutoslawski, who died Monday, had been ill for some time. His last public appearance was in September at the Warsaw Autumn Festival of contemporary music, which he helped found in 1956.

    “The man who created the great part of Polish 20th-Century music has gone,” fellow Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki said. “He taught us Polish music and introduced it to Europe.”

    When the Los Angeles Philharmonic planned an innovative concert of Lutoslawski pieces conducted by the composer in 1983, Times music critic Martin Bernheimer hailed Lutoslawski as “a Pole apart, a dauntless innovator, a probing musical philosopher and, even at (his) age, a forward-looking man of his time.”

    “The secret of Lutoslawski’s enduring, and endearing, success,” Bernh

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    A Resu­mé of the 20th Century – 2000 Back to the Future

    Lutoslawski was born in 1913 in Warsaw. He studied mathematics for several semesters at the University of Warsaw and, at the same time received, a thorough musical education including piano, violin and composition at the Warsaw Conservatory. There, one of his most important mentors was Witold Maliszewski, a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov. In the thirties and forties Lutoslawski worked primarily as a pianist. After the war he worked for a time in the music department of Radio Warsaw. From 1952 onward he appeared increasingly as a conductor for his own compositions. He taught composition as a guest professor in the USA, Sweden, Denmark, and the Federal Republic of Germany. For many years he served on the board of directors of the International Society for New Music and was an original member of the Program Committee of the international renowned Warsaw Autumn, an avant-garde festival founded in 1956.

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