Halina Krzyżanowska (1860, in Paris – 1937, in Rennes) was a Polish-French pianist and composer.
Life
She was born in Paris, in a large musical family, which originally came from Poland and was a part of the impoverished Polish nobility. Halina (also Helene) held by birth the title of a countess (Gräfin in Germany, hrabina in Poland). She was (by her fathers family) also a distant relative of Chopin, who died 11 years before her birth.
She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Antoine François Marmontel and Ernest Guiraud, and in 1880 she won the first prize at this prominent Conservatory.
She gave many concerts in various European countries and settled later in France as a professor at the conservatory in Rennes.
She was known as a very talented pianist and has made a name for herself also as a composer.
Works
Krzyżanowska composed orchestral and chamber music, piano sonatas and character pieces for piano. Selected works include:
- Magdusia (1894) 1-act opera
- Fantasie piano concerto
- Sonata for cello and piano
References
- "The Poles in Music". Archived from the original on 26 February 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
- Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The New Grove dictionary of women composers.
- Played by herself and cellist Louis Rosoor in Bordeaux on 7 December 1927 (La Petite Gironde, 9 December 1927) (fr).
- 1860 births
- 1937 deaths
- 19th-century classical composers
- 20th-century classical composers
- French classical composers
- Polish classical composers
- French people of Polish descent
- French women classical composers
- Polish women classical composers
- French classical pianists
- Polish classical pianists
- French women classical pianists
- Polish women classical pianists
- 20th-century women composers
- 19th-century women composers