A composer, organist, conductor and pedagogue. Born on 22 December 1866 in Środa near Poznań, died on 11 September 1924 in Warsaw.
In 1885 he joined the Conservatory in Berlin where he received education in the field of organ playing under supervision of Otto Dienel, and composition under supervision of Ludwik Bussler and Robert Radecki. In 1887 he switched to the Conservatory in Leipzig and continued his education under supervision of Paweł Hofmeyer and Salomon Jadalssohn. He also studied church music in Regensburg. Then he moved to Poznań, where apart from his work as a pedagogue he held the position (from 1890) of an artistic director and director of the orchestra of the Music Society as well as conductor of one of the singers’ clubs. Moreover, for some time he served as an organist at the Poznań Cathedral. He also gave performances in Germany and Austria.
In 1891 he assumed directorship of the church choir in Liepāja, while from 1893 to 1901 he led the choirs of the metropolitan cathedral in Petersburg. In 1900 he moved to Saratov, where he worked as a conductor of the cathedral and seminary choir and a professor of the Tsarist Music School. Next, he stayed in Kyiv for a year, and in 1904 he relocated to Warsaw, where in the years 1906-1909 he held the position of choir director at the Warsaw Philharmonic. With the choirs, he prepared such works as 'Requiem' by Giuseppe Verdi, 'Stabat Mater' by Gioacchino Rossini and 'Parsifal' by Richard Wagner. From 1906 to his death he was a professor of organ playing at the Music Institute in Warsaw, and after the death of Zygmunt Noskowski (1909) he taught counterpoint at the above mentioned university. From 1909 onwards, he was also an organist at St John’s Cathedral.
Polish Music Information Centre, Polish Composers’ Union, May 2004.
