Zygmunt Mycielski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish composer and critic
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Place of Birth: Przeworsk, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland
About Zygmunt Mycielski
- Count Zygmunt Mycielski (17 August 1907 – 5 August 1987) was a Polish composer and music critic.
- He was born in Przeworsk and completed his childhood education in Kraków, where he was taught by Bernardino Rizzi.
- In 1928, Mycielski moved to Paris, where he studied composition at École Normale de Musique with Paul Dukas and Nadia Boulanger.
- While there, he served as president of the Association of Young Polish Musicians in Paris from 1934 to 1936.
- In 1936, he moved back to Poland and began his music and writing career. Mycielski served in the Polish military during World War II and became a prisoner of war after being captured by the German Army.
- For the rest of the war, he did compulsory work for a German farmer.
- After the war ended, he returned to Poland and served two terms as editor for Ruch Muzyczny (1946 – 1948 and 1957 – 1959) before becoming editor-in-chief from 1960 to 1968.
- His political views clashed with communist Polish authorities, however.
- His publications caused him to be ousted as editor-in-chief of Ruch Muzyczny; his writings were then subject to strict censorship and he was forbidden to leave the country. Mycielski continued his political activism though.
- In 1975, he signed a group letter with other Polish intellectuals protesting proposed changes to the Polish constitution by the Communist party.
- In 1978, he founded the Academic Education Society, a student organisation that was deemed illegal and later banned. Mycielski died in Warsaw and he was buried in Wisniowa on the Wislok River.
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