Kazimierz Sikorski

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Kazimierz Sikorski (b. 28 June 1895 in Zurich, d. 23 of July 1986 in Warsaw) - Polish composer and music theorist. The composer's father Tomasz Sikorski (1939-1988).

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1 Biography
2 Awards and honors
3 Works (selection)
4 Literature
5 Footnotes
6 Bibliography

Biography

In the years 1911-1919 he studied composition with Felicjan Szopski at the School of Music at the Warsaw Music Society. He also studied law and philosophy at the University of Warsaw and musicology with Adolf Chybiński at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lvov.

In the years 1921-1925 he taught harmony, counterpoint, solfege, musical forms and study of instruments at the Conservatory of Music Helena Kijeńska-Dobkiewiczowej in Lodz. In 1925 he received a scholarship from the Ministry of Religion and Public Education and began his studies in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. After returning home he worked at the National Conservatory of Music in Poznan (1926-1927) and the National Conservatory of Music in Warsaw (1927-1939).

He was a founding member of the Polish Composers' Association, in 1928-1930, deputy president of the Polish Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music.

During World War II, in 1940-1944 he was director of the Staatliche Musikschule in Warsaw (acting as inactive Conservatory). After the war of 1945 was a professor of harmony, counterpoint and composition at the State Higher School of Music in Lodz, and in 1954 he moved to Warsaw, where from 1951 he taught at the State Higher School of Music.

He was chairman of the jury during VIII (1970) and the IX International Piano Competition. Frederic Chopin (1975).
Awards and honors

In 1937 he was awarded the Officer's Cross [1], in 1955 the Commander's Cross [2] Order of Polonia Restituta Polish. In 1975 the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw awarded him the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa.
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