Witold Maliszewski
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Witold Maliszewski was a Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 composer, first Rector and founder of Odessa Conservatory and professor at Warsaw Conservatory, pupil of N. Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...

.

Biography

Witold Maliszewski was born on July 20, 1873 in the city of Mohyliv-Podilskyi
Mohyliv-Podilskyi
Mohyliv-Podilskyi is a city in the Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion of the Vinnytsia Oblast , Ukraine. It is located at , on the border with Bessarabia, Moldova.-History:The first mention of the town dates from 1595...

, Russian Empire
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...

, now Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

. Maliszewski graduated from Saint Petersburg Conservatory
Saint Petersburg Conservatory
The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory is a music school in Saint Petersburg. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty members and 1,400 students.-History:...

, class of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He was a member of famous composer group, M. Belyayev
Mitrofan Belyayev
Mitrofan Petrovich Belyayev was a Russian music publisher, outstanding philanthropist, and the owner of a large wood dealership enterprise in Russia. He was also the founder of the Belyayev circle, a society of musicians in Russia whose members included Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Glazunov...

's Circle. Maliszewski was a founder and the first Rector of Odessa Conservatory (1913), which gave the world a number of outstanding mucisians, like David Oistrakh
David Oistrakh
David Fyodorovich Oistrakh , , David Fiodorović Ojstrakh, ; – October 24, 1974, was a Soviet violinist....

, Emil Gilels
Emil Gilels
Emil Grigoryevich Gilels was a Soviet pianist, widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.His last name is sometimes transliterated Hilels.-Biography:...

, Yakov Zak
Yakov Zak
Yakov Izrailevich Zak , , Jiakov Israilevič Sak; Odessa, - Moscow, June 28, 1976) was a Soviet pianist and teacher of Jewish extraction.Born in Odessa, Zak studied piano at the Odessa Conservatory with Maria Starkhova, took classes on special harmony with Mykola Vilinsky, and later studied with...

 to name a few.

After Russian revolution
October Revolution
The October Revolution , also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution , Red October, the October Uprising or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a political revolution and a part of the Russian Revolution of 1917...

, because of the imminent threat of Bolshevik
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....

 persecution Maliszewski immigrated to Poland in 1921. In 1925-1927 Maliszewski was teaching at the Chopin Musical School and was the Director of The Warsaw Music Society. In 1927 he was the Chairman of the First International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition. From 1931 to 1934 Maliszewski was the Director of the Musical department at the Polish Ministry of Education. Since 1931 to 1939 he was a Professor at the Warsaw Conservatory.

Students: Witold Lutosławski, Mykola Vilinsky
Mykola Vilinsky
Mykola Vilinsky was a Ukrainian composer and a professor at the Odessa and Kiev Conservatories.He was descended from a Ukrainian family of hereditary nobles...

, Feliks Roderyk Łabuński, Feliks Rybicki.

Selected works

Stage
  • Boruta, Ballet
  • Syrena (La Sirène), Opera-Ballet in 4 acts, Op. 24; libretto by Ludomir Michał Rogowski


Orchestral
  • Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 8
  • Joyful Overture (Ouverture joyeuse; Fröhliche Ouverture) in D major, Op. 11
  • Symphony No. 2 in A major, Op. 12 (1903)
  • Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 14
  • Symphony No. 4
  • Symphony No. 5


Concertante
  • Fantazja kujawska for piano and orchestra (1928)
  • Concerto in B minor for piano and orchestra, Op. 29 (1938)


Chamber music
  • Sonata for violin and piano, Op. 1
  • String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 2
  • Quintet in D minor for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos, Op. 3
  • String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 6
  • String Quartet No. 3 in E major, Op. 15


Piano
  • Prélude et fugue fantastiques in B minor, Op. 16


Choral
  • Requiem (1930)
  • Missa Pontificalis (1930)

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