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Polish pianist and composer

Zygmunt Denis Antoni Jordan de Stojowski (May 4, &#;&#; November 5, ) was a Polish pianist and composer.

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Life

He was born on May 4, , near the city of Kielce. Stojowski began his musical training with his mother, and with Polish composer Władysław Żeleński. In Kraków, as a seventeen-year-old student, he made his debut as a concert pianist performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.

3 with the local orchestra.

At the age of eighteen he moved to Paris and studied piano with Louis Diémer and composition with Léo Delibes.

In , Stojowski's reputation as a pianist and teacher was such that he was invited to New York to become the first head of the piano department at the newly-.

In she recorded all songs by Zygmunt Stojowski with Magdalena Molendowska- soprano.

Zygmunt Stojowski in New York, Filipowicz was invited' with the sole purpose of acquainting Paderewski with Pilsudski's proposal.

Professor Zygmunt Stojowski.

Zygmunt Stojowski (–), pianist and composer; Leopold Stokowski (–), conductor and composer; Igor Stravinsky (–), Polish blooded.

Two years later at the Paris Conservatoire, he would win first prizes in piano performance, counterpoint and fugue. According to Stojowski, however, in a December interview that appeared in a Warsaw magazine, the teachers who had the most profound influence on him as a musician were the Polish violinist-composer Wladyslaw Gorski and pianist-composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski.

Stojowski's music was found