Andrzej Dobrowolski (September 9, 1921 – August 8, 1990) was a Polish

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

and teacher. He studied at the Warsaw Conservatoire during the war and afterwards in the State High School of Music in

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...

. He went on to teach theory and, later, composition in Kraków and then Warsaw at the State Higher School of Music, becoming a Professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz in 1976, where he taught composition and electronic music. Dobrowolski was one of the first Polish composers to concentrate on music for tape, and one of the first to pioneer the combination of pre-recorded tape and live performers.Adrian Thomas, ''Polish Music since Szymanowski'' (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 162. He was one of the first composers to use the Experimental Studio of the Polish Radio in Warsaw, which was founded in 1958.

External links

Polish Music Information Centre biography and worklist

Footnotes

Sources

*Casken, John. 2001. "Dobrowolski, Andrzej". ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell. London: Macmillan. *Thomas, Adrian. 2005. ''Polish Music since Szymanowski''. Music in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
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