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Witold Szalonek is a Polish composer and music educator. He was born on 2 March 1927 in Dziedzice, Poland. He studied composition at the State Higher School of Music in Katowice, Poland, and later at the Academy of Music in Krakow. He has composed works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo instruments, and choir. He has also written music for film and television. Szalonek has received numerous awards and honors, including the Order of Polonia Restituta, the highest civilian decoration in Poland. He has also been awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Order of Merit of the French Republic. Szalonek is currently a professor at the Academy of Music in Krakow, where he has taught since 1965. He is also a member of the Polish Composers' Union and the International Society for Contemporary Music.

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Age 97 years old
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Born 2 March, 1927
Birthday 2 March
Birthplace Dziedzice, Poland
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Nationality Poland

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1963

In 1963 Szalonek discovered and classified the so-called 'combined sounds' generated by the woodwind instruments. He is also the author of theoretical studies on a wide range of subjects, including combined sounds, sonorism, Chopin and Debussy.

1949

In 1949-56 he studied at the State Higher School of Music in Katowice. Following his first successes at international composers' competitions, he received a grant from Kranichsteiner Musikinstitut in Darmstadt (1960). In 1962-63 he continued his studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. In 1967 he began to teach composition at the Katowice School and in 1970-74 was in charge of the Department of Composition and Theory. In the early 1970s he was invited by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst to work as artist in residence at West Berlin's Hochschule der Künste. In 1973 he won the competition to succeed Boris Blacher as Professor of Composition there. He has conducted numerous seminars and courses in composition in Poland, Denmark, Germany, Finland and Slovakia. In 1990 he received an honorary doctor's degree from the Wilhelmian University in Münster.

1927

Witold Szalonek (born in 1927 in Czechowice-Dziedzice, died in 2001 in Berlin) was a Polish composer.

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