Wawrzyniec Jerzy Żuławski (14 February 1916, in

Zakopane Zakopane ( Podhale Goral: ''Zokopane'') is a town in the extreme south of Poland, in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. From 1975 to 1998, it was part of Nowy Sącz Voivodeship; since 1999, it has been par ...

– 18 August 1957, in the

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), also known as ''Wawa'', was a Polish alpinist,

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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 ...

music critic ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' defines music criticism as "the intellectual activity of formulating judgments on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genres". In this sense, it is a branch of mus ...

, and

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

. He was a professor of Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Muzyczna in Warsaw. Żuławski was an initiator and organiser of Polish alpinism. During

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he was a member of

Armia Krajowa The Home Army ( pl, Armia Krajowa, abbreviated AK; ) was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II. The Home Army was formed in February 1942 from the earlier Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Armed Resistance) esta ...

and was a soldier during the

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. Żuławski published music reviews in ''Ruch Muzyczny'', ''Express Wieczorny'', ''Nowa Kultura''. He also composed orchestral, chamber, piano and vocal pieces. He was one of the leading Polish alpinists. He died on

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during a rescue action in 1957.

Notable works

Compositions

* ''Cztery kolędy polskie'', orchestral compositions, 1947 * ''Wierchowe nuty'', vocal compositions for choir and

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

solo, 1955

Books

Żuławski was an author of several mountain-related books: * ''Niebieski krzyż'', 1946 * ''Sygnały ze skalnych ścian'', 1954 * ''Tragedie tatrzańskie'', 1956 * ''Skalne lato'', 1957

Family tree

References

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