Stefan Bolesław Poradowski

Stefan Bolesław Poradowski (16 August 1902 – 9 July 1967) was a Polish composer. Life Poradowski was born on 16 August 1902 in Włocławek. He received his musical education in Włocławek at P. Bojakowskiego, then at the Conservatory of Music in Bydgoszcz Winterfeld. From 1922 to 1926 he studied in Poznań at the National Conservatory of Music where he studied composition and theory (Henryk Opieński) and the University (the right and musicology). Complementary studies in composition took place in Berlin with Emil Reznicek. He worked as a teacher of violin playing and lecturing on theoretical subjects in Poznań and Leszno, and in 1930 he became professor of theory and composition, as well as a special chamber orchestra director in the Poznań Conservatory. Before the war, he also lectured at the Municipal Conservatory of Music in Bydgoszcz (1935–1939), conducted the chamber orchestra and choir of the Society of Music “Harmony” in Poznań (1930–1939) and operated recenzencką. In 1939, he was arrested by the Germans and then taken to Opatów, Poland, where he worked as an organist and choral conductor. In 1945, he again taught a special class of theory and composition at the State Music Acad