(Gra-zhe’-na Bat-sa’-vech) 1909–69 Polish composer Bacewicz was a pupil of Nadia Boulanger. She became one of Poland’s leading composers as well as being an accomplished violinist. Her music is characterized by an individual neo-classicism and a clear sense of structure. She wrote a great deal for her own instrument (including seven violin concertos and five violin sonatas) as well as a ...
tape). Recommended Recording: All Set, Composition for 12 Instruments, etc., Boston Modern Orchestra Project (cond) Gil Rose (BMOP/sound) Introduction | Modern Era | Classical Personalities | Grazyna Bacewicz | Modern Era | Classical ...
, who became the first woman to win the Prix de Rome, and her sister Nadia, who became a teacher, numbering the female Polish composer and violinist Bacewicz among her pupils. Another teacher and composer was the Soviet Galina Ustvolskaya (1919–2006), herself one of Shostakovich’s pupils at the Leningrad Conservatory. Women in Music | Women Conductors | Modern ...
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