Władysław Raczkowski (19 May 1893 in

Wartkowice Wartkowice is a village in Poddębice County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately north of Poddębice and north-west of the regional capital Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central ...

Congress Poland Congress Poland, Congress Kingdom of Poland, or Russian Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. It w ...

– 1 July 1959 in

Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canti ...

) was a Polish conductor and

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 ...

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Entry in the ''Encyklopedia muzyki PWN'' (in Polish)
1893 births 1959 deaths Polish conductors (music) Polish male conductors (music) Polish composers 20th-century classical composers 20th-century conductors (music) Polish male classical composers 20th-century male musicians People from Poddębice County {{Poland-composer-stub