Piotr Perkowski

Composer

1901 – 1990

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Who was Piotr Perkowski?

Piotr Perkowski was a Polish composer.

Perkowski studied at the Music Academy in Warsaw, and in Paris with Albert Roussel. He was a professor and a director at the Conservatory of ToruĊ„. During World War II in occupied Poland he took part in the underground music movement, and fought in the Warsaw Uprising. After 1945, he was a composition teacher in Warsaw and Wroclaw. His pupils included Piotr Moss.

Perkowski composed film music, radio opera, five ballets, a cantata, two violin concertos and several songs.

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Born
Mar 4, 1901
Died
Aug 12, 1990
Otwock

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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