| Academy of Music in Kraków Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie |
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| ul. św. Tomasza 43 Lesser Poland Kraków, 31-515, Poland |
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| Founded | 1888 |
| Founder | Władysław Żeleński |
| Status | Public |
| Rector | Prof. Stanisław Krawczyński |
| Affiliations | The European Association of Conservatoires, Association of Baltic Academies of Music, CEEPUS, Socrates-Erasmus |
| Website | http://www.amuz.krakow.pl |
The Academy of Music in Kraków (Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie) is a conservatory located in downtown Kraków, Poland.
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The Academy, until 1945 as a conservatory under the name Cracow Conservatory or Conservatory of the Music Society, was founded in 1888 by the eminent Polish composer Władysław Żeleński thanks to artistic connections and patronage of Princess Marcelina Czartoryska, a concert pianist and former pupil of Frederic Chopin. As the region of Lesser Poland and Kraków was then a part acquired by the Austrian Empire during the partitions of Poland in the late 18th century, it was necessary to gain the consent of the Austrian government and meet its high requirements for conservatoires. However, the newly-opened school was inspected by Joseph Dachs and Johann Fuchs, both professors of the Vienna Conservatoire, and received their enthusiastic opinion. It enjoyed a period of great growth in the twenty years between the two wars under directors Wiktor Barabasz and Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski.
The professorial staff included such names as Zbigniew Drzewiecki, Jan Gall, Zdzisław Jachimecki, Egon Petri and Severin Eisenberger.
Closed during the Nazi occupation of 1939-1945, especially after Sonderaktion Krakau in 1939, the conservatoire continued its activity underground and finally reopened on 1 September 1945, becoming the State Higher School of Music as of 1 February 1946 under its first rector, Prof. Zbigniew Drzewiecki. In 1979 it gained the rank of an Academy of Music. On 1 October 2000 the Academy inaugurated its new premises at 41-43, St. Thomas Street.
The Academy is known as the alma mater of the contemporary Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, who was also its Rector for 15 years.
The Academy is the only one in Poland to have two winners of the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw (Halina Czerny-Stefańska and Adam Harasiewicz) as well as a few further prizewinners among its alumni.
The list does not include graduates who later became staff of the Academy.
From postgraduate studies:
Also graduates of the Academy:
Non-graduates: