Artist Info: Zygmunt Stojowski

Zygmunt Denis Antoni Jordan de Stojowski (May 4, 1870 – November 5, 1946) was a Polish Romantic pianist and composer.

Born near the city of Kielce, Stojowski began his musical training with his mother Marie and 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 Diemer and composition with Léo Delibes. [read more...]