Aleksander Michałowski
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Aleksander Michałowski was a Polish pianist, pedagogue, and composer.
Aleksander Michałowski
Władysław Szpilman
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Władysław Szpilman was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on his
Aleksander Michałowski
…Buckiewiczowa, Janina Familier Hepner, Zofia Frankiewicz, Stefania Niekrasz, Stanislaw Nawrocki, Ludomir Różycki, Piotr Rytel, Henryk Schulz-Evler, Władysław Szpilman, Juliusz Wolfsohn, and Alexander Zakin as Michałowski's pupils. Bolesław Kon was a pupil who also studied with Konstantin Igumnov. Jerzy Lefeld became…
Szpilman c. 1940
Plaque on a house in Warsaw where Szpilman was hiding in 1943 in the studio of his friend, composer Czesław Lewicki
House at 223 Niepodległości Alley in Warsaw where in 1944 Szpilman met Wilm Hosenfeld
Commemorative plaque on the building