Jerzy Żurawlew
- Birth Date:
- 25.12.1886
- Death date:
- 03.10.1980
- Length of life:
- 93
- Days since birth:
- 50156
- Years since birth:
- 137
- Days since death:
- 15904
- Years since death:
- 43
- Extra names:
- Jerzy Żurawlew
- Categories:
- Composer, Professor, Rector
- Nationality:
- russian, pole
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Jerzy Żurawlew (December 25, 1886 – October 3, 1980) was a Polish pianist, conductor, teacher, and founder of the International Chopin Piano Competition.
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.
He died in Warsaw in 1980, aged 93.
Source: wikipedia.org
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