Tomasz Sikorski
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Tomasz Sikorski (19 May 1939–12 November 1988) was a Polish composer and pianist.
[edit] His life
The son of the composer Kazimierz Sikorski, he was born, and eventually died in Warsaw. He was a pupil at the Warsaw conservatory where his father taught, and was also a pupil of Zbigniew Drzewiecki there. Thanks to a scholarship from the French government, he studied 1965-66 in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. From 1975-76, as a recipient of a Senior-Fulbright Scholarship from the US government, he worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City.
[edit] His works
He is the main so-called Polish minimalist (the other: Zygmunt Krauze. In addition to piano works and radio opera, Sikorski composed numerous instrumental works, among them:
- Holzwege (1972)
- Sickness unto Death (1976)
- Strings in the Earth (1980)
- Das Schweigen der Sirenen (1986)
- Diario (1987)
