Marian Sawa

Marian Sawa (January 12, 1937 in Krasnystaw – April 27, 2005 in Warsaw) was a Polish composer, organist, improviser, musicologist, and pedagogue. Biography Sawa graduated from the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Poland in Feliks Rączkowski’s organ class and Kazimierz Sikorski’s composition class. As a pedagogue he worked in Warsaw music education at the higher and academic level: J.Elsner Music School, K.Szymanowski Music School, F. Chopin Music Academy and Kardynal Stefan Wyszynski University (theoretical and practical musicology). He toured as a soloist and an accompanist around the country and abroad. He recorded many LPs and CDs for such companies as Polskie Nagrania, Veriton, Polonia Records, Arston, DUX, and Acte Preable. He was awarded many composition prizes, including First Prize at the Young Composers Competition ZKP(for Assemblage for orchestra), as well as civil prizes and distinctions (the prizes of the Ministry of Culture and Art, and the Ministry of National Education). Compositions Sawa composed around 1,000 pieces, including instrumental, vocal and vocal-instrumental works. He was a well-known and prolific organ composer (i.e. five organ concerts, sonatas, fa