Maria Szymanowska, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maria Szymanowska

Polish woman composer

Date of Birth: 14-Dec-1789

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 25-Jul-1831

Profession: composer, pianist, salonnière

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Maria Szymanowska (Polish pronunciation: ['marja ??ma'n?fska]; born Marianna Agata Wolowska; Warsaw, December 14, 1789 – July 25, 1831, St.
Petersburg, Russia) was a Polish composer and one of the first professional virtuoso pianists of the 19th century.
She toured extensively throughout Europe, especially in the 1820s, before settling permanently in St.
Petersburg.
In the Russian imperial capital, she composed for the court, gave concerts, taught music, and ran an influential salon. Her compositions—largely piano pieces, songs, and other small chamber works, as well as the first piano concert etudes and nocturnes in Poland—typify the stile brillant of the era preceding Frédéric Chopin.
She was the mother of Celina Szymanowska, who married the Polish Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz.