List of Polish composers

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Contents 1 Middle Ages 2 Renaissance 3 Baroque 4 18th and 19th Century 5 20th Century and Contemporary 6 See also 7 External links

This is a list of notable and representative Polish composers.

Note: This list should contain notable composers, best with an existing article on Wikipedia. If a notable Polish composer is missing and without an article, please add the name here.

[edit] Middle Ages

• Wincenty z Kielczy (before 1200-ca. 1261)
• Mikołaj z Ostroroga (15th Century)
• Mikołaj z Radomia (15th Century)
• Piotr z Grudziądza (ca. 1400-ca. 1480)

Culture of Poland

Periods

Middle Ages Renaissance Baroque Enlightenment Romanticism Positivism Young Poland Interbellum World War II Socialist realism Modern

Arts

Cinema Literature Music Theater

Artists

Artists Authors Composers Musicians Painters Poets

[edit] Renaissance

• Jerzy Liban z Legnicy (1464-after 1546)
• Mikołaj z Chrzanowa (1485-1555)
• Sebastian z Felsztyna (ca. 1490-after 1543)
• Mikołaj z Krakowa (1st half of the 16th Century)
• Wacław z Szamotuł (ca. 1526-1560)
• Mikołaj Gomółka (1535-1591)
• Cyprian Bazylik (ca.1535-ca. 1600)
• Jan z Lublina (ca. 1537–1540)
• Marcin Leopolita (ca. 1540-1589)
• Jakub Reys-Polak (1540-1605)
• Krzysztof Klabon (ca. 1550-after 1616)
• Tomasz Szadek (ca. 1550-after 1611)
• Wojciech Długoraj (1557-1619)

[edit] Baroque

• Mikołaj Zieleński (1st half of the 17th Century)
• Adam Jarzębski (ca. 1590-1649)
• Marcin Mielczewski (d. 1651)
• Bartłomiej Pękiel (d. 1670)
• Jacek Różycki (1625/35-1703/04)
• Damian Stachowicz (1658-1699)
• Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński (prob. 2nd half of the 17th Century)
• Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (1665/67-1734)

[edit] 18th and 19th Century

• Michał Kleofas Ogiński (1765-1833)
• Józef Ksawery Elsner (1769-1854)
• Franciszek Lessel (1780-1838)
• Karol Kurpiński (1785-1857)
• Maria Szymanowska (1789-1831)
• Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (1807-1867)
• Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
• Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872)
• Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880)
• Władysław Żeleński (1837-1921)
• Zygmunt Noskowski (1846-1909)
• Maurucy Moszkowski (1854-1925)
• Juliusz Zarębski (1854-1885)

[edit] 20th Century and Contemporary

Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1864-1941) Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876-1909) Feliks Nowowiejski (1877-1946) Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) Ludomir Różycki (1884-1953) Aleksander Tansman (1897-1986) Szymon Laks (1901-1983) Bronisław Kaper (1902-1983) Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) Roman Maciejewski (1910-1998) Stefan Kisielewski (1911-1991) Władysław Szpilman (1911-2000) Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994) Witold Rudziński (1913-2004) Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991) Michał Spisak (1914-1965) Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996) Kazimierz Serocki (1922-1981)

Tadeusz Baird (1928-1981) Bogusław Schaeffer (b. 1929) Krzysztof Komeda (1931-1969) Wojciech Kilar (b. 1932) Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (b. 1933) Krzysztof Penderecki, (b. 1933) Andrzej Czajkowski (1935-1982) Marek Stachowski (1936-2004) Marian Sawa (1937-2005) Zygmunt Konieczny (b. 1937) Czesław Niemen (1939-2004) Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (b. 1953) Paweł Szymański (b. 1954) Zbigniew Preisner (b. 1955) Cezary Ostrowski (b. 1962) Paweł Mykietyn (b. 1971) Sebastian Krajewski (b. 1975) Adam Darski (b. 1977)

[edit] See also

• List of Poles
• Music of Poland

[edit] External links

• [1] Professor Adrian Thomas: Before Chopin (lecture)
• [2] The Briefest History of Polish Music by Maria Anna Harley (Maja Trochimczyk)