Bernadetta Matuszczak (10 March 1937 – 3 September 2021) was a Polish composer. She was born in

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, Poland, and studied with Zygmunt Sitowski for music theory and with Irena Kurpisz-Stefanowa for piano at the State Higher School of Music in Poznan. Later she studied with Tadeusz Szeligowski and

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for composition at the State Higher School of Music in

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(now the F. Chopin Academy of Music). She continued her education in composition with

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in Paris. After completing her studies, she worked as a composer. Her works have been performed internationally.

Honors and awards

*Prize from the Young Polish Composers' Competition, Association of Polish Composers (1965) *Prizes from the Grzegorz Fitelberg Competition for Composers (1966) *Jeunesses Musicales Competition (1967) *Prix Italia for

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-oratoria (1973, 1979)

Works

Selected works include: *''Septem Tubae'', 1969 *''Juliet and Romeo'', chamber opera, 1972 *''Diary of a Fool'', opera monodrama, 1976 *''Musica da camera'' per 3 flauti, 4 timpani e 5 tom-toms (1967) *''Humanae voces'' (1970–71) *''Apocalypsis according to St. John'' (1976–77) *''Ballet Miniatures'' for orchestra (1985) *''Notturno - Karol Szymanowski in memoriam in tres partes'' per cello solo (1987) *''Canticum polonum'' per archi (1987) *''By Night at the Old Town'', pantomime based on Isaac Leib Peretz for solo voices, choir and symphony orchestra (1988)

References

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