Augustyn Bloch
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Augustyn Bloch was a Polish
composer
and organist
, student of Feliks Rączkowski and Tadeusz Szeligowski. He was an active concert organist, conducted his own music, and wrote music for the Polish Radio Theater.
Poland
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composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and organist
Organist
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, student of Feliks Rączkowski and Tadeusz Szeligowski. He was an active concert organist, conducted his own music, and wrote music for the Polish Radio Theater.
Selected works
- Piano variations Karol Szymanowski in memoriam (1953)
- Concertino for violin solo, string orchestra, piano, and percussion (1958)
- Meditations for soprano solo, organs, and percussion (1961)
- Oczekiwanie (Waiting), a ballet (1963)
- Dialogi per biolino et orchestra (1969)
- Gilgamesh (1969)
- Enfiando (1970)
- Warstwy czasu (Layers of Time) for 15 string instruments (1978)
- Anenaiki (1979)