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Zofia Helman (born 8 March 1937) is a Polish musicologist and an honorary member of the Polish Composers' Union.
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Zofia Helman (born 8 March 1937) is a Polish musicologist and an honorary member of the Polish Composers' Union.
Zofia Helman was born in Radom and studied musicology at the University of Warsaw from 1954 to 1959. In 1967 she defended her doctoral dissertation on the sound techniques of Karol Szymanowski. [1]
Helman took a position at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Warsaw in 1959, and served as director of the institute from 1991 to 1996. In 1991 she was appointed professor. She has also served as guest lecturer at the Department of Musicology at the Jagiellonian University, the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, the Kraków Academy of Music, at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz at the University of Mainz, the University of Ljubljana, and the Geneva Conservatory in Beijing. [2]
Helman has been a member of the Committee on Art, Academy of Sciences since 1981, and has sat on the Board of the Karol Szymanowski Foundation since 1996. She has served on the editorial boards of Polish Art Studies, Theatre, Opera, Ballet (Paris), Musicological Review and the PWM Music Encyclopedia. She is a member of musical and musicological associations including the International Musicological Society, the Robert-Schumann-Gesellschaft Düsseldorf, Gesellschaft für Musikforschung in Kassel, the Société Internationale d'Histoire Comparée du Théâtre de l'Opéra et du Ballet, the Polish Society of Composers, the Frédéric Chopin in Warsaw Music Society and the Karol Szymanowski Musical Society in Zakopane.
For her research work, Helman has been honored with the Golden Cross of Merit (1983), Award of the Ministry of Secondary Education (1986), Award of the Association of Polish Komozytorów (1988), Clio Award of the Department of History at the University of Warsaw (2000), the Karol Szymanowski Prize (2002), Annual Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2008) and an honorary membership in the Association of Polish Composers (2009). [3]
Helman is the author of texts including:
Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer and pianist. He was a member of the modernist Young Poland movement that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century.
The Silesian String Quartet is a string quartet founded in 1978 by the graduates of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland. Its current members are:
Antoni Wit is a Polish conductor, composer, lawyer and professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. Between 2002 and 2013, he served as the artistic director of the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra.
Maria Szymanowska was a Polish composer and one of the first professional virtuoso pianists of the 19th century. She toured extensively throughout Europe, especially in the 1820s, before settling permanently in St. Petersburg. In the Russian imperial capital, she composed for the court, gave concerts, taught music, and ran an influential salon.
Roman Palester was a Polish composer of classical music. Palester composed his most significant work during the 1960s and was the first Polish musician to be awarded the Alfred Jurzykowski Prize in 1964. His work was individual in style and not noticeably Polish in character.
Joanna Domańska is a Polish classical pianist and music teacher from Gliwice.
Hanna Kulenty is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. Since 1992, she has worked and lived both in Warsaw (Poland) and in Arnhem (Netherlands).
Maciej Gołąb is a Polish musicologist.
Zofia Lissa was a Polish music educator and musicologist.
Tadeusz Szeligowski was a Polish composer, educator, lawyer and music organizer. His works include the operas The Rise of the Scholars, Krakatuk and Theodor Gentlemen, the ballets The Peacock and the Girl and Mazepa ballets, two violin concertos, chamber and choral works.
The PWM Edition is a music publishing house based in Kraków, Poland. It was founded in 1945 and was the only music publisher in Poland for several years. In 2012 it released the twelfth volume of Encyclopedia of Music, edited by Elżbieta Dziębowska.
Adolf Chybiński was a Polish historian, musicologist, and academic.
Kurt von Fischer was a Swiss musicologist and classical pianist.
Helga de la Motte-Haber is a German musicologist focusing on the study of systematic musicology.
Bernd Enders is a German musicologist and from 1994 until 2015 a professor for Systematic Musicology at the University of Osnabrück.
Mirosław Ławrynowicz was a Polish violinist and teacher.
Daniela Philippi is a German musicologist with a research focus on Christoph Willibald Gluck, Antonín Dvořák and Czech music history and music of the 20th century.
Aleksandra Mikulska is a Polish classical pianist. She is the current president of the Chopin Society in Darmstadt, Germany.
Zofia Kilanowicz is a Polish operatic soprano who has performed internationally, with a focus on Polish music. She appeared as Roxana in Szymanowski's King Roger in Paris and New York City, and recorded Górecki's Second Symphony and Third Symphony.
Zygmunt Marian Szweykowski was a Polish musicologist and academic. Described as "one of the leading Polish musicologists of his generation", Szweykowski specialized in Renaissance and Baroque music, particularly that of Poland and Italy. His career was primarily spent at Jagiellonian University and he was closely associated with the PWM Edition publisher.
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