Jozéf Turczyński (18841953) was a Polish

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and

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who exercised a powerful influence over the development of

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teaching and performance, especially in the works of

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, during the first half of the 20th century. He was in a large part responsible for a performing edition of the Complete Pianoforte Works of Chopin which is still considered definitive. Turczyński was born in Żytomierz (

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, now in

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). He was first a pupil of his father. In 1907–1908 he studied with

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, and made his debut in 1908. He then made further studies with

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, and took first prize at the piano competition in

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in 1911. He played in all the European capitals, and from 1915 to 1919 was a professor at the

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. Then he returned to Poland to take over the concert-pianists' class at the Warsaw State Conservatory. Among the pianists who received instruction from him were

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(1935–39),

Witold Małcużyński Witold Małcużyński (August 10, 1914July 17, 1977) was a Polish pianist who specialized in the works of Frédéric Chopin. Biography Małcużyński was born in 1914 in Koziczyn (Congress Poland, Russian Empire). He was the older brother of Ka ...

, Henryk Sztompka, Stanisław Szpinalski,

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and

Ryszard Bakst Ryszard Bakst (4 April 1926 – 25 March 1999) was a Polish pianist and distinguished piano teacher. Background Bakst was a descendant of the Russian artist Léon Bakst. His teachers were initially his mother and pianist Józef Turczyńsk ...

. The Edition of the Complete Works of Chopin, the most widely accepted edition since the Second World War, was begun under the editorial chairmanship of

Ignacy Jan Paderewski Ignacy Jan Paderewski (;

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in 1937. It was prepared for the

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in Warsaw (Instytut Fryderyka Chopina, Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne). On Paderewski's death in 1941, when it was only just begun, Turczyński took on the task with

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, and brought the work to completion in 1949 in 27 volumes. Each volume carries a bar-by-bar commentary upon variant texts as a supplement, and the edition was based primarily on comparison of autograph manuscripts, approved copies and first editions, with special attention to original dynamic markings and fingerings, etc. In his later years Turczyński lived in

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, but he died in

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References

Arthur Eaglefield Hull Arthur Eaglefield Hull (10 March 1876 – 4 November 1928) was an English music critic, writer, composer and organist.

, ''A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians'' (Dent, London 1924). *J. Methuen-Campbell, ''Chopin Playing from the Composer to the Present Day'' (Gollancz, London 1981). *I.J. Paderewski ''et al.'' (ed), ''Chopin Complete Works: VII Nocturnes'', (Instytut Fryderyka Chopina, Warsaw 1951), (10th Edition 1970), 107-125.

External links

Józef Turczyński - biografia
(with a small photo); see als
list of worksThe Fryderyk Chopin Institute - Persons related to Chopin: Józef Turczyński
{{DEFAULTSORT:Turczynski, Jozef 1884 births 1953 deaths Polish male classical pianists Academic staff of the Chopin University of Music Piano educators 20th-century Polish musicologists 20th-century Polish classical pianists 20th-century Polish male musicians Chopin scholars