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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 is a city in central Poland and a former industrial cent ...

Congress Poland Congress Poland or Congress Kingdom of 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 was established w ...

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Łódź Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Polan ...

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conductor Conductor or conduction may refer to: Biology and medicine * Bone conduction, the conduction of sound to the inner ear * Conduction aphasia, a language disorder Mathematics * Conductor (ring theory) * Conductor of an abelian variety * Cond ...

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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 ...

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