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Death of Professor Bogusław Madey
2004-08-23
Professor Bogusław Madey, composer, pianist, teacher and conductor of the Grand Theatre National Opera for many years, died on Monday 9 August at the age of 72.
As a conductor Bogusław Madey (born 31 May 1932) appeared in most European countries and the United States. Apart from the work at the Grand Theatre National Opera, he was also artistic director of the Grand Theatre in Łódź and the Baltic Opera and Philharmonic; he cooperated with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and with the Badische Staatsoper in Karlsruhe. Between 1978 and 1981 he served as Rector of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw.
Professor Madey popularized Polish music in the world: he staged „Halka” by Stanisław Moniuszko in Cuba and Leipzig and conducted „Symphonic Poems” by Mieczysław Karłowicz in Germany and Cuba. His most important compositions include „Suite” (1951), „Dance Impressions” for small orchestra (1951), „Dramatic Overture” (1952), „Scherzo Fantastico” for full orchestra (1954), „Transfigurations” for voice and instruments (1965) and „Metamorphosies – Variations on a Paganini Theme” for piano and orchestra (1989), the studies: „10/16” (1997) and „Symmetricalness” (2002) for piano. Bogusław Madey was a teacher of several generations of Polish conductors and his pupils include Jerzy Maksymiuk, Wojciech Rajski, Tadeusz Kozłowski and Łukasz Borowicz.
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