Wawrzyniec Jerzy Żuławski (14 February 1916, in

Zakopane Zakopane (Gorals#Language, Podhale Goral: ''Zokopane'') is a town in the 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 ...

– 18 August 1957, in the

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

alpinist Alpine climbing () is a type of mountaineering that uses any of a broad range of advanced climbing skills, including rock climbing, ice climbing, and/or mixed climbing, to summit typically large routes (e.g. multi-pitch or big wall) in an alpi ...

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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 def ...

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 m ...

, and

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

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

he was a member of

Armia Krajowa The Home Army (, ; 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) established in the ...

and was a soldier during the

Warsaw Uprising The Warsaw Uprising (; ), sometimes referred to as the August Uprising (), or the Battle of Warsaw, was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance movement in World War II, Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from ...

. 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

Mont Blanc Mont Blanc (, ) is a mountain in the Alps, rising above sea level, located right at the Franco-Italian border. It is the highest mountain in Europe outside the Caucasus Mountains, the second-most prominent mountain in Europe (after Mount E ...

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 referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

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

1916 births 1957 deaths Mountaineering deaths Polish composers Polish educators Polish mountain climbers Polish male non-fiction writers People from Zakopane 20th-century Polish composers Polish male composers Polish music critics Home Army members 20th-century Polish writers 20th-century Polish male writers 20th-century Polish male musicians Recipients of the Medal of the 10th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland {{Poland-writer-stub Deaths on Mont Blanc