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Zygmunt Stojowski
Person · male · Poland · Strzelce, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship · born 1870 · died 1946 · recording since 2002
Polish pianist and composer (1870-1946)
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Also known as Sigismond Stojowski · Sigismond Stojowski · 齐格蒙特·斯托约夫斯基
Timeline
6 events▣ Album 3◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1
1870s
1940s
2000s
· Debut release
Debut release: The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 28: Piano Concerto no. 1, op. 3 / Piano Concerto no. 2, op. 32
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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· Album
Album: The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 28: Piano Concerto no. 1, op. 3 / Piano Concerto no. 2, op. 32
Album
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Biography
English biography503 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1368206941
Biography
Zygmunt Denis Antoni Jordan de Stojowski (May 4, 1870 – November 5, 1946) was a Polish-American pianist and composer.
Life
He was born on May 4, 1870, near the city of Kielce. Stojowski began his musical training with his mother, and with Polish composer Władysław Żeleński. In Kraków, as a seventeen-year-old student, he made his debut as a concert pianist performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the local orchestra.
At the age of eighteen he moved to Paris and studied piano with Louis Diémer and composition with Léo Delibes. Two years later at the Paris Conservatoire, he would win first prizes in piano performance, counterpoint and fugue. According to Stojowski, however, in a December 1901 interview that appeared in a Warsaw magazine, the teachers who had the most profound influence on him as a musician were the Polish violinist-composer Wladyslaw Gorski and pianist-composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski.
Stojowski's music was found worthy enough to be included in the first concert of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, on 5 November 1901. His Symphony in D minor, Op. 21, which was featured in that first concert conducted by Emil Młynarski, had won first prize (1000 rubles) in a Paderewski Music Competition in Leipzig on 9 July 1898. Besides having his symphony performed at that first prestigious concert, Stojowski appeared as a recitalist in December and again as the soloist in Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 4 in January 1902.
In October 1905, Stojowski sailed on the SS Moltke to the USA on the invitation of Frank Damrosch, founder and director of the newly formed Institute of Musical Art, to head the institute's piano department; he was recommended for the position by pianist Harold Bauer and cellist Pablo Casals. New York became his home for the rest of his life.
The institute would later merge in 1924 with the Juilliard Graduate School to form the Juilliard School, where Stojowski would also teach during the summers of 1932 and 1940–46. In New York, he was acclaimed as a great composer, pianist and pedagogue, and had the distinction of being the first Polish composer to have an entire concert devoted to his music performed by the New York Philharmonic.
After six years of teaching at the Institute of Musical Art, Stojowski then headed the piano department at the Von Ende School of Music until 1917. Finally, due to the large number of students who wished to work with him, he opened his own 'Stojowski Studios' at his four-story brownstone home at 150 West 76th Street in Manhattan. Among Stojowski's pupils were Mischa Levitzki, Alfred Newman, Antonia Brico, Alice Marion Shaw, Arthur Loesser, and Oscar Levant.
Here, together with his Peruvian-born wife, Luisa Morales-Macedo, the pianist-composer not only taught until the end of the 1930s, but also raised what he called his "three best compositions": his sons, Alfred (1919–2019), Henry (1921–2018), and Ignace (1923–1984).
He died on November 5, 1946, in New York City.
Recordings
Piano Concertos 2001 by Jonathan Plowright for Hyperion Records
Solo Pieces 2003 by Jonathan Plowright for Hyperion Records
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 12 | 64.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 3 | 77.1th |
| Studio albums | 3 | 80.9th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 6 | 80.8th |
| Recording span (years) | -56 | 6.3th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (3 release groups · 3 studio albums)
Albums · 3
The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 28: Piano Concerto no. 1, op. 3 / Piano Concerto no. 2, op. 32
2002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 1:07:48
1Piano Concerto no. 1 in F-sharp minor, op. 3: I. Andante poco mosso - Allegro un poco maestoso14:552Piano Concerto no. 1 in F-sharp minor, op. 3: II. Andante sostenuto e molto cantabile9:393Piano Concerto no. 1 in F-sharp minor, op. 3: III. Allegro con fuoco - Presto - Più presto10:224Piano Concerto no. 2 in A-flat major, op. 32 "Prologue, Scherzo and Variations": I. Prologue. Andante con moto7:365Piano Concerto no. 2 in A-flat major, op. 32 "Prologue, Scherzo and Variations": II. Scherzo. Presto5:026Piano Concerto no. 2 in A-flat major, op. 32 "Prologue, Scherzo and Variations": IIIa. Tema. Maestoso e moderato molto1:037Piano Concerto no. 2 in A-flat major, op. 32 "Prologue, Scherzo and Variations": IIIb. Variation I. Molto sostenuto1:218Piano Concerto no. 2 in A-flat major, op. 32 "Prologue, Scherzo and Variations": IIIc. Variation II. Con espressione poco rubato1:079Piano Concerto no. 2 in A-flat major, op. 32 "Prologue, Scherzo and Variations": IIId. Variation III. Più mosso1:1410Piano Concerto no. 2 in A-flat major, op. 32 "Prologue, Scherzo and Variations": IIIe. Variation IV. Allegretto0:5411Piano Concerto no. 2 in A-flat major, op. 32 "Prologue, Scherzo and Variations": IIIf. Variation V. Molto vivace0:2812Piano Concerto no. 2 in A-flat major, op. 32 "Prologue, Scherzo and Variations": IIIg. Variation VI. Con fuoco, agitato1:0513Piano Concerto no. 2 in A-flat major, op. 32 "Prologue, Scherzo and Variations": IIIh. Variation VII. Con moto, energico1:2514Piano Concerto no. 2 in A-flat major, op. 32 "Prologue, Scherzo and Variations": IIIi. Variation VIII. Andante sostenuto1:0415Piano Concerto no. 2 in A-flat major, op. 32 "Prologue, Scherzo and Variations": IIIj. Variation IX. Andantino ben moderato2:1816Piano Concerto no. 2 in A-flat major, op. 32 "Prologue, Scherzo and Variations": IIIk. Variation X. Finale. Allegro molto8:152003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 23 tracks · 1:17:40
1Deux Pensées musicales, Op. 1: 1. Mélodie2:172Deux Pensées musicales, Op. 1: 2. Prélude4:493Deux Orientales, Op. 10: 1. Romance: Sostenuto e con molto espressione4:374Deux Orientales, Op. 10: 2. Caprice: Allegro assai4:265Quatre Morceaux pour piano, Op. 26: 3. Chant d'amour4:196Quatre Morceaux pour piano, Op. 26: 4. Thème cracovien varié6:437Fantasie, Op. 3814:038Aspiration, Op. 39: 1. L'aspiration vers l'azur: Prélude4:319Aspiration, Op. 39: 3. L'aspiration vers le caprice: Intermède2:2310Aspiration, Op. 39: 4. L'aspiration vers l'amour: Romance4:3611Aspiration, Op. 39: 5. L'aspiration vers la joie: Rhapsodie2:5312Variations et Fugue sur un thème original, Op. 42: Theme: Andante com molto1:1613Variations et Fugue sur un thème original, Op. 42: Variation 1: Maestoso1:3114Variations et Fugue sur un thème original, Op. 42: Variation 2: Poco più mosso0:5415Variations et Fugue sur un thème original, Op. 42: Variation 3: Andante assai0:3716Variations et Fugue sur un thème original, Op. 42: Variation 4: Allegro agitato1:0717Variations et Fugue sur un thème original, Op. 42: Variation 5: Non troppo presto ma con fuoco0:4018Variations et Fugue sur un thème original, Op. 42: Variation 6: Vivace1:3419Variations et Fugue sur un thème original, Op. 42: Variation 7: Presto1:1520Variations et Fugue sur un thème original, Op. 42: Variation 8: Lento, ma con troppo, rubato3:4421Variations et Fugue sur un thème original, Op. 42: Variation 9: Andantino com moto2:1922Variations et Fugue sur un thème original, Op. 42: Variation 10: Allegro moderato1:5723Variations et Fugue sur un thème original, Op. 42: Fugue5:092006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 1:00:52
1Sonata for cello and piano in A major, op. 18: I. Andante12:302Sonata for cello and piano in A major, op. 18: II. Allegro8:483Sonata for cello and piano in A major, op. 18: III. Allegro con fuoco8:244Romance sans paroles for cello and piano in A major4:445Fantaisie for cello and piano in E major, op. 278:046Concertstück in D Major for cello and piano, op. 3118:22
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Zygmunt Stojowski head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 12 | 64.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 3 | 77.1th |
| Studio albums | 3 | 80.9th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 6 | 80.8th |
| Recording span (years) | -56 | 6.3th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta | won |
Where this record comes from
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https://musicbrainz.org/artist/88646e58-ed0e-45fb-9da6-3a3cb57425e7discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/88646e58-ed0e-45fb-9da6-3a3cb57425e7core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1362743genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1362743seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Stojowskibiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Stojowski
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