Bolesław Wallek Walewski

Bolesław Wallek-Walewski (born 23 January 1885 in Lviv, died 9 April 1944 in Kraków) was a Polish composer and conductor, lecturer and Director of the Conservatory of Music in Kraków.

From 1894 Bolesław Wallek-Walewski studied at the Galician Music Society Conservatory in L'vov under guidance of theory professor Stanislaw Niewiadomski, from 1900-1904 under Władysław Żeleński and Felicjan Szopski at the Conservatory of the Music Society in Kraków, and then between 1906-1907 with Hugo Riemann in Leipzig. From 1908 he became professor at the Conservatory in Kraków Institute of Music and from 1910 at the Conservatory in Kraków.