Krakow said goodbye to its oldest pianist. Wanda Szajowska rested in Salwator
Until recently, her concerts could again protect the seat of ul. False. In the years only through the window, but she played the last pianist almost to the end. There must be music during the last farewell to Mrs. Wanda Szajowska, who was also a previous Polish citizen for a week. The pianist rested in Krakow’s Salwator. With the sounds of Chopin, the inhabitants of Krakow gnawed at her and the restoration of state and local authorities.
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“Małopolska has lost its cordial and personal, which for 111 years of its life has shown us that through the beauty of music you can express deep love for the Motherland” – he wrote in condolences Lesser Poland Voivodeship Łukasz Kmicica.
Wanda Szajowska, née Zarzycka, on February 24, 1911 in Lviv, where childhood and adolescence fell. In 1931, she graduated from the Conservatory of Music with an excellent result. During the Second Patriotic War, the waltz played by Fryderyk Chopin, keeping the patriotism of the participants of the resistance movement alive. In 1945, after forced repatriation, she moved to Krakow. Follow the studies at the Faculty of Art History of the Jagiellonian University, which – like us in Lviv – also graduated with honors.
Over the next years, she tried to instill her passion for music into young generations. For several dozen years of helpful children of music in the piano class, practicing from around 1946 the experimental Study of Piano Games, later called the Music Studio, Express Express in the center of Krakow at ul. Gołębia 3. Get in, among others, such world famous musicians as: conductors Antoni Wit, Jerzy Salwarowski, organist Jacek Kulig, music theorist Teresa Mięsowicz-Malecka and composer Krzysztof Meyer.