Barbara Hesse-Bukowska RIP

[td]

This noted Polish pianist and pedagogue passed away today.

She took second prize in the first post-war Chopin Competition and taught at the Chopin Music Academy.

TD

[Willem Orange]

Yawn!!!

[td]

On Monday, December 9, 2013 11:17:39 AM UTC-5, td wrote:

> This noted Polish pianist and pedagogue passed away today.
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> She took second prize in the first post-war Chopin Competition and taught at the Chopin Music Academy.

More information on BH-B from the Chopin Competition website:

Barbara Hesse-Bukowska – winner 2nd prize IV Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw (1949). Was born into a family with a long musical tradition. Her father was a violinist and conductor, her mother – a pianist and pedagogue and her grandfather was a piano tuner. She began learning to play piano at six years of age under her mother’s tutelage. Subsequently her teacher became Czesław Aniołkiewicz. In 1938, she entered the Warsaw Conservatory, taking an elementary course with Maria Glińska-Wąsowska. During World War II, she participated in classes held by Prof. Margerita Trombini-Kazuro. In 1945, she began a regular course of studies starting in Łódź under Maria Wiłkomirska, and later at the State Music Academy in Warsaw again under Prof. Margerita Trombin-Kazuro. She received her diploma with highest honours on 17 June 1949. That same year she took part in the Fourth Chopin Competition and took the second prize; in 1953, she won the fifth prize at the Long-Thibaud International Music Competition in Paris. Five years later (1953), she perfected her playing in Paris under Artur Rubenstein thanks to a stipend provided by the Polish government.

She gave her first public concert on 1 July 1945 in Łódź, performing Chopin’s Andante spianato and Grand Polonaise in E flat major, op.22 accompanied by the city orchestra. She performed intensively during the 50s, 60s and 70s. She appeared on all the continents; with the exception of Monaco and Portugal she played in all the European countries. She was partnered by famous conductors, such as: Mikołaj Anosow, Hermann Abendroth, Adrian Boult, Enrique Batiz, Henryk Czyż, Jerzy Katlewicz, Jan Krenz, Kurt Masur, Witold Rowicki, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Stanisław Wisłocki and others. She took part in international festivals in Dubrovnik, Duszniki, Gaming, Gandaw, Prague, Warsaw, Vienna and others. She had several tours as a soloist with the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra (Germany, Austria, France, among others) and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. In 1962, she received the “Harriet Cohen Piano Medal - International Music Award” for best pianist of the year. Her playing is distinguished by its sensitivity, skill in stylising the works performed and cleverness.

The artist has made recordings for many radio and television stations around the world. She has recorded for the following labels: Polskie Nagrania „Muza”, Lumen, Westminster, Le Chant du Monde, Deutsche Grammophon, Pol-Music. She has immortalised Chopin’s compositions (2 Concertos, waltzes, mazurkas, nocturnes, impromptus, Allegro de Concert, polonaises and etudes), Szymanowski’s (20 Mazurkas), Paderewski’s (Concerto in A minor), Ludomir Różycki (Ballades for piano with orchestra and others).

Barbara Hesse-Bukowska began her pedagogical career in the mid-1950s giving private piano lessons. Since 1963, she had piano classes at the State Music Academy in Wrocław and since 1972, at the State Music Academic in Warsaw. She has sat on the juries of numerous international piano competitions, in Warsaw (Chopin Competition 1985, 1990, 1995), Leeds, Paris, Palm Beach, Hamamatsu and others.

TD

[Willem Orange]

Yawn!!!!

[td]

You said that already.

Is that the extent of your repertoire, Dickey?

TD

[Willem Orange]

So funny how you ape my postings so often - just wanted you to know that no one except you really has any interest in this matter whatsoever. Its all too too boring

[td]

Nobody is you.

I, for one, am very interested in the passing of a distinguished Polish pianist and pedagogue.

If you are not, then make no comment.

TD

[Willem Orange]

Just can't help yourself can you???? tell everyone else not to "feed the trolls" yet here you are - what a hypocrite. and BTW no one here cares.

[Willem Orange]

On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 5:27:42 AM UTC-5, td wrote:

That never stopped you from making snarky remarks on the deaths of others so follow your own rules ---for once.

[td]

Oh, so you're making snarky remarks, are you?

TROLL!!!