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Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
About Józef Śliwiński
- Józef Sliwinski (b.
- Warsaw, 15 December 1865; d.
- 1930) was a Polish classical pianist, one of the outstanding interpreters of the poetic and romantic repertoire, especially Chopin and Schumann.
- He was taught by Theodor Leschetizky and Anton Rubinstein.
- For many years he was professor of piano at the Riga Conservatory.
- He lived in Warsaw from 1918.A man of aristocratic bearing, Sliwinski studied with Leschetizky in Vienna for four years before going on to have lessons from Rubinstein in St.
- Petersburg.
- He taught in Russia for some time at the Saratov Conservatory, and toured around 1900 with some success.
- He was a famous proponent of the weight technique, by which the weight of the arm in the depression of the keys was supposed to produce a more powerful resonance in the note, and indeed he had a deep and affecting tone.
- He played with great emotional power and expressiveness, and was at his best in the larger-scale works of Chopin and Schumann, though without exploiting the heroic side of Chopin's writing.
- He also established himself as a conductor.
- His technique became unreliable in later years, but he was greatly admired as a poet of the keyboard.Among his pupils were Juliusz Wertheim, Stanislas Niedzielski and Julian Clifford.
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