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Composers

Bolesław Wallek-Walewski

1885-1944

Wallek-Walewski Bolesław, * 23 I 1885, Lviv, † 9 IV 1944 Kraków, Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue. He studied piano with W. Maliszowa and W. Zellinger and music theory and composition with S. Niewiadomski from 1894 in the Galician Music Society Conservatory in Lviv, from 1900 at the Conservatory in Kraków - harmony and counterpoint with W. Żeleński, piano with W. Barabasz, and singing with J. Marso, from 1903 Polish literature at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University and from 1906 to 1907, musicology in Leipzig with H. Riemann and A. Prüfer. From 1903 he was the first conductor of the Kraków Academic Choir. In 1915 he founded the Kraków Opera Society (active in the years 1915-1938, with a break in the years 1924 to 1930) and conducted many operas. From 1917 to 1919 he was conductor at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw, from 1925 the artistic conductor of the Music Society in Kraków, in the years 1919 to 1938 the artistic director of the Kraków Singing Society "Echo." In the years 1910 to 1917 he taught music theory at the Conservatory in Kraków, from 1930 to 1934 led the composition class there, and in the academic year 1938-1939 he served as director.