- Title Pages
- The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Editors and Advisers
- Preface
- Polin
- Polin
- Note on Place Names
- Note on Transliteration
-
Review Essays Some Remarks on Leszek Hońdo’s Study of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Kraków - The Last Controversy over Ritual Murder? The Debate over the Paintings in Sandomierz Cathedral
- The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland of 1967‒1968: Documents
-
Book Reviews Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands - Haḥevrah hayehudit bemamlekhet polin-lita
- A Missionary for History: Essays in Honor of Simon Dubnow
- From Nationalism to Universalism: Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky and the Ukrainian Question
- Żydzi Lubelszczyzny 1914‒1918
- Malarstwo i rzeźba Żydów polskich w XIXi XXwieku
- Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky
- Utwory nieznane. Ze zbiorów Tomasza Niewodniczańskiego w Bitburgu: Wiersze, Kabaret, Artykuły, Listy
- Szlagiery starej Warszawy: Śpiewnik andrusowski
- Party na Nalewkach
- Sąsiedzi: Historia zagłady żydowskiego miasteczka
- Burning Questions a Film By
- Collaboration during the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941‒44
- Studia dziejów i kultury Żydów w Polsce po 1945 roku
- Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria: An Anthology
- Błogosławiony Bóg Izraela
- Correspondence
- Exchange between Dina Porat and Roni Stauber, and Alina Cała
- Obituaries
- Stanislaus A. Blejwas 1941‒2001
- Select Bibliography of Blejwas’s Works
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index
Obituaries
Obituaries
Władysław Szpilman 1911‒2000
- Chapter:
- (p.567) Obituaries
- Source:
- Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 16
- Author(s):
- Michael C. Steinlauf, Antony Polonsky
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter provides an obituary for Polish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman. Szpilman's initial training as a pianist was at the Frederick Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. In 1931, he enrolled at the Academy of Arts in Berlin, where he studied piano under two of the most distinguished players of the day, Artur Schnabel and Leonid Kreuzer. On his return to Poland in 1933, Szpilman formed a highly successful duo with the violinist Bronisław Gimpel, the basis, twenty-nine years later, of the Warsaw Piano Quintet. During the Second World War, Szpilman managed to continue practising his art in the Warsaw ghetto, primarily as a pianist and composer. In Poland, Szpilman was known as 'a man in whom music lives'; music was his entire essence and his soul. His contribution to Polish culture will be a long-lasting and important one.
Keywords: Polish pianist, Polish composer, Władysław Szpilman, Warsaw Piano Quintet, Second World War, Warsaw ghetto, Poland, Polish culture
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- Title Pages
- The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Editors and Advisers
- Preface
- Polin
- Polin
- Note on Place Names
- Note on Transliteration
-
Review Essays Some Remarks on Leszek Hońdo’s Study of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Kraków - The Last Controversy over Ritual Murder? The Debate over the Paintings in Sandomierz Cathedral
- The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland of 1967‒1968: Documents
-
Book Reviews Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands - Haḥevrah hayehudit bemamlekhet polin-lita
- A Missionary for History: Essays in Honor of Simon Dubnow
- From Nationalism to Universalism: Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky and the Ukrainian Question
- Żydzi Lubelszczyzny 1914‒1918
- Malarstwo i rzeźba Żydów polskich w XIXi XXwieku
- Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky
- Utwory nieznane. Ze zbiorów Tomasza Niewodniczańskiego w Bitburgu: Wiersze, Kabaret, Artykuły, Listy
- Szlagiery starej Warszawy: Śpiewnik andrusowski
- Party na Nalewkach
- Sąsiedzi: Historia zagłady żydowskiego miasteczka
- Burning Questions a Film By
- Collaboration during the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941‒44
- Studia dziejów i kultury Żydów w Polsce po 1945 roku
- Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria: An Anthology
- Błogosławiony Bóg Izraela
- Correspondence
- Exchange between Dina Porat and Roni Stauber, and Alina Cała
- Obituaries
- Stanislaus A. Blejwas 1941‒2001
- Select Bibliography of Blejwas’s Works
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index