Konrad Pałubicki

Konrad Józef Pałubicki (1910–1992) was a Polish composer, musicologist, teacher, cultural activist and animator in Gdańsk and Bydgoszcz. He created the hymn of Bydgoszcz and taught at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk and the Institute of Music Education of the Higher Pedagogical School in Bydgoszcz (today’s Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz). Biography Early life Konrad was born on 16 March 1910 in Dziembówko, a village near Chodzież. He was the son of Wanda Née Wyrwicka and Franciszek, a railway official. His mother was a teacher and played the piano; she instilled in her son a love of music, literature and theater. By the end of World War I, he moved with his parents to live in Bydgoszcz. There he attended the State High School of Humanities, today the High Seminary of Bydgoszcz Diocese at 18 Grodzka Street. At the age of 17, he became interested in music and started taking private piano lessons from , a pianist from Lviv who settled in Bydgoszcz in 1923 to teach at the Conservatory of Music. Thanks to a scholarship holder from the Directorate of Railways in Gdańsk, Pałubicki then studied music at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In June 1937, he received a master’s