Barbara Buczek

Barbara Buczek (9 January 1940 – 17 January 1993) was a Polish composer and music teacher who taught at the Academy of Music in Kraków. Early life and education Barbara Buczek was born on 9 January 1940 in Kraków. She began learning to play the piano under her father’s instruction, She studied with Kazimierz Mirski and Maria Bilińska-Regierowa at the State Music School (now the Academy of Music) in Kraków, and graduated from the latter’s piano class in 1959. Buczek then continued her piano studies with Ludwik Stefański from 1959 to 1965, before studying composition with Bogusław Schaeffer between 1969 and 1974. She graduated with distinction from both classes. Career Buczek stayed at the State Music School as a teacher, and taught piano, counterpoint and composition there. Works *Sonata breve per pianoforte (1968) 5'20" (Ariadne) *Mikrosonata for violin solo (1968) 2'45" (Ariadne) *Study No. 1, for flute (1968) 4'10" (Ariadne) *String Quartet no. 1 (1968) 8'18" *Quintet for wind instruments (1969) 7'20" (Ariadne) *Intermezzo for piano and instrumnets (1969) 5'50" *Koncert wokalny Vocal Concerto for twelve solo voices (1969) *Fuga *Study for violin solo (1970) 2'40" (Ariadne) *Metaf