Sigismund Stojowski

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Sigismund Stojowski (April 8, 1869 - November 5, 1946) was a Polish-born American pianist and teacher.

A native of Strzelce, Stojowski studied music principally at the Paris Conservatory, also working privately with Ignace Paderewski. Upon completion of his studies, he toured Europe as a virtuoso pianist, playing his own piano concerto in Paris in 1891 in a concert devoted entirely to his own music. In 1906 he settled in New York City, becoming an American citizen thirty-two years later. He headed the piano department at the Institute of Musical Art until 1912, when he became head of the same department at the Von Ende School of Music, remaining in that position until 1917. From the end of World War I he taught piano at the Juilliard Summer School and at California's Mills College.

Among Stojowski's pupils were Mischa Levitzki, Alfred Newman and Antonia Brico. He died in New York in 1946.

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• David Ewen, Encyclopedia of Concert Music. New York; Hill and Wang, 1959.