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Stanislas Niedzielski

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Stanislas Niedzielski (1905–1975) was a Polish pianist, noted for his playing of Chopin. His given name is also seen as Stanislaw or Stanislaus.

Early life

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He was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1905 and studied with Józef Śliwiński and Henryk Opieński in Poland,[1] and with Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Switzerland.[2] He gave his first concert in London in 1925. He played Cyril Scott's Piano Concerto No. 1 in March 1928, with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Sir Dan Godfrey (the source refers to him as a "teenager", but he appears to have been about 23).

Career

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On 18 January 1930, in Madrid, he gave the first performance of Joaquín Turina's Contes d'Espagne, Set II, Op. 47.[3]

He toured to many countries, including frequent performances in South Africa, Mauritius, Australia[4] and New Zealand.[5]

For a performance at Birmingham Town Hall around 1950 he brought his own piano in a box trailer towed behind his car.

Niedzielski is not well known today, but he had a commanding technique as shown in his own paraphrase on Johann Strauss II's A Thousand and One Nights Waltz, Op. 346, recorded in London in 1930.[1]

His recordings are now rare (some have been reissued on CD in recent years):

Personal life

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He settled in Paris, dying there in 1975 of a tropical disease contracted during an African tour.[1]

References

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