Władysław Słowiński (14 May 1930 – 5 September 2024) was a Polish composer and conductor.
He studied composition under
Tadeusz Szeligowski from 1950 to 1954 and conducting from 1951 to 1955 under
Valerian Beerdiaeva and
Stanisław Wisłocki at the State Higher School of Music in
Poznań
Poznań ( ) is a city on the Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's ...
,
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, Polmic={{Cytuj stronę , url = https://www.polmic.pl/index.php?option=com_mwosoby&Itemid=4&id=241&view=czlowiek&lang=pl , tytuł = Władysław Słowiński , praca = Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej , język = pl , data dostępu = 26 April 2018 , archiwum = https://archive.today/20180426005208/https://www.polmic.pl/index.php?option=com_mwosoby&Itemid=4&id=241&view=czlowiek&lang=pl , zarchiwizowano = 26 April 2018] as well as musicology with
Adolf Chybiński
Adolf Chybiński (29 April 1880 – 31 October 1952) was a Polish historian, musicologist, and academic.
Early life and education
Adolf Eustachy Chybiński was the son of the industrialist Adolf and Maria z Górskich. He was educated at a gymnas ...
at the University of A. Mickiewicz in Poznan.
[{{cite web, access-date=5 September 2024 , language=pl-PL , title=Słowiński, Władysław , url=https://polskabibliotekamuzyczna.pl/encyklopedia/slowinski-wladyslaw/ , website=Polska Biblioteka Muzyczna]
From 1954 to 1964, he was the conductor of the
Grand Theatre in Poznań, at the same time he collaborated with symphony orchestras, mainly with the Poznań Philharmonic, and in the following years with the Grand Theatre in Łódź, the Musical Theatre and the Grand Theatre in Warsaw.
From 1970 to 1973, he was the artistic director of Polish Recordings, in the years 1973–1985 he was secretary general of the Main Board of the
Polish Composers' Union The Polish Composers' Union (, ZKP) is a society of Polish composers and musicologists.
History
The association was founded in Kraków on August 29 or September 1, 1945 by the All-Polish Composers' Congress, as a continuation of the Association of ...
, and in the years 1985–2001 he was the president of the Warsaw branch of the Polish Composers Union. In 1986, he initiated the Warsaw Music Meetings festival, he was also its artistic director.
He was a member of the Polish United Workers' Party.
[''Kto jest kim w Polsce 1989'', Wydawnictwo Interpress, Warszawa 1989, str. 1202]
Słowiński died on 5 September 2024, at the age of 94.
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1930 births
2024 deaths
Polish composers
Polish conductors (music)