music.wikisort.org - Musician

Jerzy Żurawlew (December 25, 1886 – October 3, 1980) was a Polish pianist, conductor, teacher, and founder of the International Chopin Piano Competition.

Life

Żurawlew was born at Rostov-on-Don in Russia in 1886. He studied with Aleksander Michałowski at the Warsaw Conservatory until 1913, and taught there himself from 1923. In 1916 he founded a music school in Minsk (now Belarus), and in 1920 one in Białystok.

He was the founder of the International Chopin Piano Competition, at Warsaw in 1927.[1] His lifelong friend, Henryk Rewkiewicz - businessman, music lover and board member of The Warsaw Music Society - offered his personal financial guarantees to help get the Competition off the ground.[2]

Żurawlew died in Warsaw in 1980, aged 93.

References

External links

Warsaw Chopin Competition website

Sources

• J. Methuen-Campbell, Chopin Playing From The Composer To The Present Day (Gollancz, London 1981).

На других языках

---

- [en] Jerzy Żurawlew

---

[es] Jerzy Żurawlew

Jerzy Żurawlew nació el 21 de enero de 1887 en Rostov-on-Don y murió el 3 de octubre de 1980 en Varsovia. Fue compositor polaco, pianista, director de orquesta y profesor de piano del Conservatorio de Varsovia.

---

[ru] Журавлев, Ежи

Ежи Журавлев (польск. Jerzy Żurawlew; 21 января 1887, Ростов-на-Дону — 3 октября 1980, Варшава) — польский пианист и музыкальный педагог, инициатор (1927) проведения Международного конкурса пианистов имени Шопена.

---

---