Andrzej Wąsowski

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Andrzej Wasowski (January 24, 1919 – May 26, 1993) was a Polish classical pianist.

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Life Andrzej Wasowski was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919 [various sources incorrectly state 1924]. His father's family owned estates in Podolia and sugar refineries and mining interests in Silesia. His mother, Princess Maria Glińska Wąsowska was professor of piano at the Warsaw Conservatory. She, in her turn, had studied piano with Richard Baumeister, a pupil of Franz Liszt. Andrzej began his piano studies with his mother at the age of four. In 1931 he was admitted to the Warsaw Conservatory where he studied with Margerita Trombini-Kazuro, who had studied with one of Liszt's disciples, Giovanni Sgambati. He graduated from the conservatory in 1939 with one of its highest awards, the Grand Prix d'Interpretation. Lwów, where he was living at the time, was overrun by the Russian army in 1939. On hearing him play, they packed him off to give concerts in the Soviet Union where he performed 186 times, giving up to nine concerts in a three-day period. While in the Soviet Union, he studied with Konstantin Igumnov in Moscow. He returned to his native city in 1942. He was permitted to give concerts to benefit war relief organisations, but was not permitted to play Polish music. Since the…Citește mai mult

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Legacy During the 1950's Wasowski made three recordings with the clarinetist Antoine-Pierre de Bavier for Deutsche Grammophon, including works by Johannes Brahms, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Albert Roussel and Carl Maria von Weber. In 1954, with the addition of Walter Müller on viola, a fourth record featuring works by Schumann, Weber, Debussy, Ravel, Ferruccio Busoni and Roussel was released. Disques Alpha, a Belgian classical music label, also released two Wasowski records of Frédéric Chopin works in the 1950's. In 1971 Wasowski recorded Chopin's 24 Preludes, Opus 28 for the Spanish RCA Red Seal label. The U.S. based Concord Records, re-issued Wasowski's 1980 recordings of Chopin's complete mazurkas (previously issued by Finnadar Records) and his 1989 recordings of the complete nocturnes. These recordings were hailed by critics. Bernard Sherman, reviewing the mazurkas for the New York Times described Wasowski as "one of those artists the broad international public neglects but critics and colleagues rave about". Another critic, Charles Michener praised the Mazurkas as "full-blooded and intoxicating, almost shocking in their use of rubato, the freedom with which they shake the pieces' rhythmic structures". Critical acclaim for the nocturnes (recorded in just two days, 30 September and 1 October 1989) was equally…Citește mai mult