Karol Maciej Szymanowski (Tymoszówka, Ukraine, 3 October 1882 – 28 March 1937, Lausanne, Switzerland) was a Polish composer and pianist.
Szymanowski was born into a wealthy land-owning Polish gentry family (of Korwin/Ślepowron coat-of-arms) in Tymoszówka, then in the Russian Empire, now in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. He studied music privately with his father before going to Gustav Neuhaus' Elizavetgrad School of Music from 1892. From 1901 he atten...
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Date of birth:
- Oct 3, 1882
Date of death:
- Mar 28, 1937 (age 54 years)
Musical Genres:
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Also known as:
- Szymanowski,
- Karol Maciej Korwin-Szymanowski,
- Karol Maciej Szymanowski