Henryk Pachulski
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Henryk Pachulski is a city in eastern Poland with 77,392 inhabitants . Situated in the Masovian Voivodeship , previously the city was the capital of a separate Siedlce Voivodeship ....
— 2 March 1921 in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
) was a Polish pianist, composer and teacher who spent most of his life in Russia.
Of noble birth, he was the son of a surveyor and forester on the estate of the patroness of Tchaikovsky, Nadezhda von Meck
Nadezhda von Meck
Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck was a Russian businesswoman, who is best known today for her artistic relationship with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. She supported him financially for 13 years, enabling him to devote himself full-time to composition, but she stipulated that they were never to meet. ...
. Meck's daughter Julia was married to Henryk's brother, Władysław (1857–1919), who was also a musician.
Henryk studied at the Warsaw Institute of Music under Stanisław Moniuszko
Stanisław Moniuszko
Stanisław Moniuszko was a Polish composer, conductor and teacher. His output includes many songs and operas, and his musical style is filled with patriotic folk themes of the peoples of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...
and Władysław Żeleński, then at the Moscow Conservatory
Moscow Conservatory
The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...
from 1880, studying with Alexander Michalowski, Pavel Pabst
Pavel Pabst
Paul Pabst Russ: Pavel was a pianist, composer, and Professor of Piano at Moscow Conservatory.-Life and career:...
, Nikolai Rubinstein, and Anton Arensky
Anton Arensky
Anton Stepanovich Arensky -Biography:Arensky was born in Novgorod, Russia. He was musically precocious and had composed a number of songs and piano pieces by the age of nine...
. From 1886 he was professor of piano at the conservatory. His brother followed him to Russia and worked as a secretary to the Meck family.
Pachulski wrote a Suite for orchestra, a Méditation for string orchestra, a Polish Fantasy for piano and orchestra, works for cello, piano (preludes, etudes, two sonatas, polonaises, mazurkas, waltzes), and numerous songs, as well as many four-handed piano transcriptions of Tchaikovsky's orchestral music.
Some of his works have been recorded by Lubow Nawrocka (Henry Pachulski – Piano Works, Acte Préalable, Warsaw 2008, AP0187)