Andrzej Czajkowski
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Andrzej Czajkowski (1935-1982) was a Polish-Jewish pianist and composer, winner of the VIII prize at the V International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in 1955. His musical talent was noticed already at the age of four, but he started playing later (at ten) as he was hiding with a Polish family throughout World War II. He started his musical education in Łódź and later in Paris with Lazare Levy. After returning to Poland in 1950, he studied piano further with Stanislaw Szpinalski and composition with Kazimierz Sikorski. He concerted often, and he was well known for his interpretation of Bach's Goldberg Variations and Rachmaninov's II Piano Concerto.
After his success at the V International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition, he left for Brussels, where he studied piano with Stefan Askenase. In 1957, Czajkowski played a series of well accepted concerts in Paris, during which he played all the piano works of Ravel on his 20th anniversary of death. During this time he began consulting his compositions with Nadia Boulanger and became acquainted with Artur Rubinstein.
[edit] Notable compositions
- Sonata for clarinet and piano, Op. 1 (1959)
- Piano inventions, Op. 2 (1961-1962)
- I String Quartet A major, Op.3 (1969-1970)
- II Piano Concerto, Op. 4 (1966-1971)
- II String Quartet C major, Op. 5 (1973-1975)
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