Wojciech Łukaszewski, born 10 March 1936 in

Częstochowa Częstochowa ( , ) is a city in southern Poland on the Warta with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship. However, Częstochowa is historically part of Lesser Poland, not Si ...

– 13 April 1978 in

, was a Polish

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, music writer and musical impresario. His father, Antoni Łukaszewski, worked in a legal firm and was a participant in the

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. His mother's name was Helena, née Michalska. In 1963, he married Maria Patrzyk, and they had two sons, the composer

Paweł Łukaszewski Paweł Łukaszewski (born 19 September 1968) is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. He has won seven Fryderyk Awards. According to David Wordsworth, Łukaszewski is the best-known Polish composer of his generation in and out of P ...

and the musician and author

Marcin Łukaszewski Marcin Łukaszewski (born March 15, 1978, in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish former professional football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports ...

Literature

*Marcin Lukaszewski (1997), ''Wojciech Lukaszewski – życie i twórczość'', WSP Publishing, Częstochowa.

References

1936 births 1978 deaths Polish male composers Polish classical composers People from Częstochowa Polish writers about music 20th-century Polish male musicians 20th-century Polish composers {{Poland-composer-stub