Emil Młynarski

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Emil Szymon Młynarski (July 18, 1870– April 5, 1935) was a Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue. He was the founding conductor of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and subsequently served as principal conductor of the Scottish Orchestra in Glasgow.

Młynarski was born in Kibarty, Russian Empire, now in Lithuania, and died in Warsaw at age 64. He composed, among others, two violin concertos and a symphony dedicated to his homeland (Symphony in F major op. 14, "Polonia").

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• Profile by Malgorzata Kosinska, Polish Music Information Center

Preceded by none

Music directors, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra 1901–1905

Succeeded by Zygmunt Noskowski

v • d • e Royal Scottish National Orchestra Principal Conductors George Henschel (1893) · Willem Kes (1895) · Max Bruch (1898) · Frederic Cowen (1900) · Emil Młynarski (1910) · Landon Ronald (1916) · Václav Talich (1926) · Vladimir Golschmann (1928) · John Barbirolli (1933) · George Szell (1937) · Warwick Braithwaite (1940) · Walter Susskind (1946) · Karl Rankl (1952) · Hans Swarowsky (1957) · Alexander Gibson (1959) · Neeme Järvi (1984) · Bryden Thomson (1988) · Walter Weller (1991) · Alexander Lazarev (1997) · Stéphane Denève (2005)