Grzegorz Fitelberg

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Birth Date:
18.10.1879
Death date:
10.06.1953
Length of life:
73
Days since birth:
52780
Years since birth:
144
Days since death:
25881
Years since death:
70
Extra names:
Grzegorz Fitelberg, Гжегож Фительберг
Categories:
Born in Latvia, Composer, Conductor, Professor, Violinist,fiddler
Nationality:
 pole
Cemetery:
Warszawa, Powązki Military Cemetery

Grzegorz Fitelberg (18 October 1879 – 10 June 1953) was a Polish conductor, violinist and composer. He was a member of the Młoda Polska group, together with artists such as Karol Szymanowski, Ludomir Różycki and Mieczysław Karłowicz.

Fitelberg was born into a Polish-Jewish family (father Hozjasz Fitelberg, mother Matylda Niezrównany), in Daugavpils, Latvia. In 1908 he conducted in the Warsaw Opera, in 1912 in the Vienna Opera. During the first war he collaborated with Ballets Russes; he conducted the first performance of Mavra of Igor Stravinsky. From 1921 to 1934 he was the chief conductor of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, excessively promoting new music. In 1935 he organized the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. He died in Katowice, Poland.

His son was the Polish-American composer Jerzy Fitelberg, who predeceased him.

The Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors, one of most important music competitions in Poland, takes place in the Silesian Philharmonic since 1979.

 

Source: wikipedia.org

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