Witold Lutosławski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Witold Lutosławski

Polish composer and conductor

Date of Birth: 25-Jan-1913

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 07-Feb-1994

Profession: composer, conductor, pianist, musicologist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Witold Lutosławski

  • Witold Roman Lutoslawski (Polish: ['vit?ld lut?s'wafski]; 25 January 1913 – 7 February 1994) was a Polish composer and orchestral conductor.
  • He was one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and one of the preeminent Polish musicians during his last three decades.
  • He earned many international awards and prizes.
  • His compositions (of which he was a notable conductor) include four symphonies, a Concerto for Orchestra, a string quartet, instrumental works, concertos, and orchestral song cycles. During his youth, Lutoslawski studied piano and composition in Warsaw.
  • His early works were influenced by Polish folk music.
  • His style demonstrates a wide range of rich atmospheric textures.
  • He began developing his own characteristic composition techniques in the late 1950s.
  • His music from this period onwards incorporates his own methods of building harmonies from small groups of musical intervals.
  • It also uses aleatoric processes, in which the rhythmic coordination of parts is subject to an element of chance. During World War II, after escaping German capture, Lutoslawski made a living by playing the piano in Warsaw bars.
  • After the war, Stalinist authorities banned his First Symphony for being "formalist"—allegedly accessible only to an elite.
  • Lutoslawski believed such anti-formalism was an unjustified retrograde step, and he resolutely strove to maintain his artistic integrity.
  • In the 1980s, Lutoslawski gave artistic support to the Solidarity movement.
  • Near the end of his life, he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honour.

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