Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska (22 February 1912 – 14 March 1994) was a Polish

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 pianist, music educator and composer.

Biography

Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska was born in Brody

Brody

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 (now Ukraine

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) and studied piano with Marii Sołtysowej at the Conservatory of Music in Lvov, graduating in 1931. She continued her studies in composition with Tadeusz Szeligowski

Tadeusz Szeligowski

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, Piotr Perkowski

Piotr Perkowski

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 and Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski at the National Academy of Music in Wroclaw

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, graduating in 1956. After completing her studies, she worked as a music educator, teaching accompaniment, chamber ensemble, music theory and composition. She died in Wroclaw.

Honors and awards

• Opolska Wiosna Competition, second prize for the cantata Regiment (1960)
• Opolska Wiosna Competition, second prize for the song cycle I envy the nut for soprano and chamber orchestra (1962)
• Competition for composers in Mannheim, award for children's ballet Ein Spaziergang in der Stadt (1971)
• National Composition Competition, second prize for We Play in the Green (1970)
• Prize of the city of Wroclaw (1964)
• Prime Minister's Award (1974 and 1983)

Works

Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska composed mostly works for youth, including ballets and stage works. She also composed for instruments, voice, and choral ensemble. Selected works include:

• Sonatina for Oboe and Piano (1953–54)
• Concertino for flute and strings (1954–56)
• Mythological Preludes for flute and piano (1955)
• Pinocchio, a ballet for children (1956)
• Giocosa Sonatina for piano (1958–59)
• Two Studies for violin and piano (1960)
• Regiment, a cantata for mixed chorus and small orchestra (1960)
• Capriccio for clarinet and strings free education (1960)
• Sonatina for Flute and Piano (1961)
• I envy the nut, a song cycle for soprano and chamber orchestra (1961)
• Two Studies for piano and string orchestra (1962)
• Harp, mimodrama (1962)
• Three Songs humorous for 2-voice choir, string quintet and percussion (1962–1964)
• About El Mole Rahmim for mixed choir, orchestra and narrator (1964)
• Ballade for violin and chamber orchestra (1964)
• Concertino for two pianos (1965)
• Kidnapping in Tiutiurlistan, a ballet for children (1965–1966)
• Tre legerezze for piano (1965)
• Ein Spaziergang in der Stadt, a ballet for children (1968)
• Mr. Lear's rhymes, the narrator and chamber orchestra (1968)
• Three pieces for piano and strings (1968)
• Thais, ballet (1969–70)
• Two songs of the Persian [version] for male choir a cappella (1969)
• Two songs of the Persian [version II] for baritone, flute, clarinet, harp, strings and percussion (1970)
• Funerailles [version] for two pianos (1970–72)
• Concerto for piano, string orchestra and percussion (1970)
• Six songs [version] for voice and piano for children (1970)
• Funerailles [version II] for string orchestra, piano and percussion (1971)
• Six songs [version II] for children's choir and piano (1971)
• Princess in oślej skin, the opera-musical children (1972–74)
• Twelve poems for solo soprano and string quartet (1972)
• Ten etudes for two pianos (1975)
• Blue Cat[version], musical fairy tale in 2 acts (1975)
• Blue Cat [version II], musical fairy tale in 3 acts with a prologue (1976)
• Poems for narrator and piano (1977)
• The Enchanted Tailor, a fantastic spectacle of historical (1978)
• Two Songs to texts Hanna Januszewska for 2-voice children's choir and piano (1978)
• All'Antico, free education for orchestra (1978)
• Five Pieces for piano quintet (1978)
• Six Pieces for piano and string quartet (1978)
• Six Pieces for violin and piano for young soloists and chamber musicians (1978–1980)
• The Myth of Alexander,"= [II version of the ballet "Thais"] (1979–80)
• The four dances in the old style for chamber ensemble of wind instruments and percussion (1979)
• Concerto for Piano and Orchestra for students of music school second degree (1979)
• Six trioletów for 2 flutes and piano (1980)
• Six Etudes for two pianos for young soloists and chamber musicians (1982)
• Little Red Riding Hood, a ballet for the youngest (1984)
• Carnival Row for mezzo-soprano and orchestra (1985)
• Emperor's Nightingale, a ballet for children (1992)
• The Princess and the Pea, a ballet for children (1992)