Composer and organist; born 13th August 1929 in Grudziądz; d. 6th April 2006 in Warsaw. He studied with Feliks Rączkowski (organ: 1950-55) and Tadeusz Szeligowski (composition: 1952-59) at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw. While still a student, in 1947-57, he gave organ concerts in Wrocław, Gdańsk Oliwa and Warsaw. In 1954-77, he regularly collaborated with the Theatre of the Polish Radio in Warsaw as a composer of music for plays and radio dramas.
In 1977-79 and again in 1983-87, he held the function of vice-president of the Polish Composers’ Union, and in 1979-87 he was chairman of the Repertoire Committee for the „Warsaw Autumn” International Festival of Contemporary Music.
He has received prizes at international competitions for composers: in Vercelli in 1961 for Piano variations „Karol Szymanowski in memoriam” (1953), in Monaco in 1962 for Meditations for soprano, organ and percussion, and in 1963 for his ballet Awaiting. In 1969 he won the 3rd prize at the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris for Dialoghi per violino ed orchestra (1964). In 1989 he was granted the Brighton Festival Award for his Oratorio for organ, strings and percussion (1982). He was also granted the Minister of Culture and Arts Award (in 1971 for Enfiando per orchestra, 1970; and again in 1985 for the ballet Gilgamesh, 1968). His music for children’s radio broadcasts won for him the Radio and Television Committee Award in 1960. In 1975, he received the Prime Minister’s Award (for his musical works for children and young people with special appreciation of his opera-ballet Bardzo śpiąca królewna – A Soundly Sleeping Beauty, 1973), and in 1981 – the annual award of the Polish Composers’ Union. He was decorated with the Cavalier’s (1969) and Officer’s (1979) Cross of the Polonia Restituta Order.