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Witold Szalonek

Born: 2nd March 1927, Czechowice-Dziedzice, Poland

Died: 12th October 2001, Berlin, Germany

Nationality: Polish

Witold Szalonek was a Polish composer.

In 1949-56 he studied at the State Higher School of Music in Katowice. Following his first successes at international composers' competitions, he received a grant from Kranichsteiner Musikinstitut in Darmstadt (1960). In 1962-63 he continued his studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. In 1967 he began to teach composition at the Katowice School and in 1970-74 was in charge of the Department of Composition and Theory. In the early 1970s he was invited by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst to work as artist in residence at West Berlin's Hochschule der Künste.

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