Halina Krzyżanowska
Halina Krzyżanowska (1860, in Paris – 1937, in Rennes) was a Polish-French pianist and composer.
Life
She was born in Paris, in a large musical family, which originally came from Poland and was a part of the impoverished Polish nobility. Halina (also Helene) held by birth the title of a countess (Gräfin in Germany, hrabina in Poland). She was (by her fathers family) also a distant relative of Chopin, who died 11 years before her birth.
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She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Antoine François Marmontel and Ernest Guiraud, and in 1880 she won the first prize at this prominent Conservatory.[citation needed]
She gave many concerts in various European countries and settled later in France as a professor at the conservatory in Rennes.[citation needed]
She was known as a very talented pianist and has made a name for herself also as a composer.[1][2]
Works
Krzyżanowska composed orchestral and chamber music, piano sonatas and character pieces for piano. Selected works include:
- Magdusia (1894) 1-act opera
- Fantasie piano concerto
- Sonata for cello and piano[3]
References
- ^ "The Poles in Music". Archived from the original on 26 February 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
- ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The New Grove dictionary of women composers.
- ^ Played by herself and cellist Louis Rosoor in Bordeaux on 7 December 1927 (La Petite Gironde, 9 December 1927) (fr).