Sad news about the death of the Polish composer was provided by her daughter-in-law, Dobromiła Skalska, in an interview with PAP. Joanna Bruzdowicz-Tittel died in her music studio in France, where she had lived and worked for 50 years. She was 78.
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She composed her first piece at the age of 6
Joanna Bruzdowicz-Tittel was born on May 17, 1943 in Warsaw. She began composing at the age of six. She studied composition with prof. Kazimierz Sikorski at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw. She obtained her diploma in 1966.
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Already during her studies, she began her career as a pianist and gave concerts in Belgium, Austria and Czechoslovakia. She was a co-founder, and in 1964-1968 the secretary general of the Polish section of “Jeunesses Musicales”.
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In 1968 she received a scholarship from the French government and studied composition in Paris until 1970 with Nadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen and P. Schaeffer, and musicology with J. Chailley at the Sorbonne. In 1969 she was a co-organizer of the Groupe International de Musique Electroacoustique de Paris
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Apart from composing, Bruzdowicz also dealt with music criticism and journalism. She was the author of programs on French, Belgian and German radio promoting new music, she gave readings, and together with her husband, HJ Tittel, she wrote film scripts for French and German television. She also conducted composition courses, mainly in France and the United States.
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Stage music, especially opera, is of great importance in her work as a composer. incl. Penal Colony (1968), to a text by Franz Kafka, commissioned by the Prague Opera – although the premiere did not take place, the composition gained recognition in the West as its gateway to fame, and the French version premiered in Tours in 1972; Trojanki (1972) to the text by Euripides); Gates of Paradise (1984) – world premiere at the Grand Theater in Warsaw, dealing with historical and contemporary topics.
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