- Tomasz Sikorski
Tomasz Sikorski (
19 May 1939 –12 November 1988 ) was a Polishcomposer andpianist .His life
The son of the composer
Kazimierz Sikorski , he was born, and eventually died inWarsaw . He was a pupil at the Warsaw conservatory where his father taught, and was also a pupil ofZbigniew Drzewiecki there. Thanks to a scholarship from the French government, he studied 1965-66 inParis withNadia 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 inNew 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:
* "Holzwege" (1972)
* "Sickness unto Death" (1976)
* "Strings in the Earth" (1980)
* "Das Schweigen der Sirenen" (1986)
* "Diario" (1987)External links
* [http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/composer/sikorski_t.html#intro Biography and list of works]
* [http://home.wanadoo.nl/eli.ichie/sikorski.html Further Biography and list of works]
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