Witold Rudziński (14 March 1913, in

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– 29 February 2004) was a Polish

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, conductor, and

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. He studied composition at the Mieczysław Karlowicz Conservatory of Music in Vilnius, and later at the Gregorian Institute in Paris. His teachers included

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Stanisław Szpinalski Stanisław Szpinalski (15 November 1901 in Yekaterinodar – 12 June 1957 in Paris) was a Polish pianist. Early years Born and trained in Russia, he would return to his homeland as it was reconstituted. Once he finished his studies in the W ...

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, and

Charles Koechlin Charles-Louis-Eugène Koechlin (; 27 November 186731 December 1950), commonly known as Charles Koechlin, was a French composer, teacher and musicologist. He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things ...

. In addition to composing, Rudziński taught at the Vilnius Conservatory of Music and in Poland at the Conservatory of Music in Lodz and the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. Composer Iwonka Bogumila Szymanska was one of his students.

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