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Filipina Brzezinska Szymanowska

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Role
  
Composer


Died
  
November 11, 1886

Name
  
Filipina Brzezinska-Szymanowska

Filipina Brzezinska-Szymanowska (1 January 1800 – 11 November 1886) was a Polish pianist and composer. She was born in Warsaw, the daughter of Franco Francis Szymanowski and Agatha Wolowska. She studied with Charles Mayer and was influenced by her sister-in-law, composer Maria Szymanowska. She married Franciszek Jakub Brzeziński (1794–1846) and had four children: Franciszka Teofila Krysinska (born Brzezinska), Kazimierz Brzezinski, Teofila Zielenska (born Brzezinska) and Aniela Brzezinska.

Brzezinska-Szymanowska composed works for both organ and piano. In 1876 she published a collection of short organ preludes. She died in Warsaw.

Works

Selected works include:

  • Nocturne
  • Verlaß uns nicht (Do not leave us)
  • Fifteen short preludes for organ
  • In the Tatra Mountains
  • Urbi et Orbi, cantata
  • References

    Filipina Brzezinska-Szymanowska Wikipedia