Tomasz Sikorski

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Tomasz Sikorski (19 May 1939 – 12 November 1988) was a Polish composer and pianist.

The son of the composer Kazimierz Sikorski. He studied at the Warsaw conservatory with Zbigniew Drzewiecki. Thanks to a scholarship from the French government, he studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. From 1975-76, as a recipient of a Senior-Fulbright Scholarship from the US government, he worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City.

His works

He is the main so-called "Polish minimalist" (the other: Zygmunt Krauze). In addition to piano works and radio opera, Sikorski composed numerous instrumental works, among them:

Sequenza I for Symphony Orchestra (1966)
Homophony for 4 Trumpets, 4 Horns, 4 Trombones, Piano and Gong (1970)
Holzwege (1972)
Vox humana for Mixed Choir, 2 Solo Pianos, 12 Brass Instruments, 4 Gongs and 4 Tam-tams (1971)
Other voices for 24 Wind Instruments, 4 Gongs and Chimes, (1975)
Sickness unto Death (Choroba na śmierć) (1976). The words are taken from Søren Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death, 1849
Music in Twilight for Piano and Orchestra (1978)
Strings in the Earth (1980)
Das Schweigen der Sirenen (1986)
Diario (1987)

External links

Jens Staubrand: Kierkegaard International Bibliography Music Works and Plays, Copenhagen 2009. In English and Danish. ISBN 978-87-92510-05-1
Biography and list of works
Further Biography and list of works
Tomasz Sikorski at PWM Edition

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 3405046 LCCN: n85195142 ISNI: 0000 0001 1135 3336 GND: 124422845 BNF: cb14995825w

Persondata
Name	Sikorski, Tomasz
Alternative names
Short description	Polish composer
Date of birth	1939
Place of birth	Warsaw
Date of death	1988
Place of death	Warsaw

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