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Place of Birth: Kowal, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
About Max Kowalski
- Max Kowalski (10 August 1882 — 4 June 1956) was a German composer, singer and singing teacher. Kowalski was born in Kowal, Poland.
- He moved with his family to Germany in 1883, a year after he was born.
- He studied law in Marburg, obtaining a doctorate and worked as a lawyer in Frankfurt am Main.
- There he studied singing as well as composition with Bernhard Sekles and published his first work, a musical version of Albert Giraud's Pierrot Lunaire (independently from Arnold Schoenberg's work of the same year), in 1912-13.
- He continued to compose and published until 1934, writing a large number of Lieder which were widely performed in Germany.
- In 1938, he was forced to give up his law practice and was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
- Upon his release in 1939, he emigrated to London, where he first worked as a piano tuner and synagogal cantor.
- Later he established himself as a singing teacher.
- He continued to compose, but none of his later songs was published.
- He died in 1956 in London.
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