Barbara Buczek | |
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.jpg) Barbara Buczek,c. 1960 | |
| Born | (1940-01-09)9 January 1940 Kraków, Poland |
| Died | 17 January 1993(1993-01-17) (aged 53) Kraków, Poland |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, music teacher |
Barbara Buczek (9 January 1940 – 17 January 1993) was a Polish composer and music teacher who taught at theAcademy of Music in Kraków.
Barbara Buczek was born on 9 January 1940 inKraków. She began learning to play the piano under her father's instruction,[1] She studied with Kazimierz Mirski and Maria Bilińska-Regierowa at theState Music School (now the Academy of Music) in Kraków,[2] and graduated from the latter's piano class in 1959. Buczek then continued her piano studies with Ludwik Stefański from 1959 to 1965, before studying composition withBogusław Schaeffer between 1969 and 1974. She graduated with distinction from both classes.[1][3]
Buczek stayed at the State Music School as a teacher, and taught piano, counterpoint and composition there.[1] She remained as a teacher at the school until her death. Buczek wrote compositions with such intricate textures and complexity that it was almost impossible to play all the intricacies of the piece; she referred to these pieces as having the "charm of impossibility".[3]
Buczek won various awards for her music during her career, including third place at the G. Fitelberg Composition Competition in 1970 inKatowice for "Two Impressions", an award at the N. Paganini International Composition Competition inRome in 1982 for "Violin Concerto" and third place at the International Composition Competition inVienna in 1985 for "String Quartet No.2 Transgressio". Buczek also participated in the International Composers' Seminar inBoswil and was a member of the Frau und Musik and Grupa Krakowska artistic associations.[1][3]
Buczek presented her doctoral dissertation atMaria Curie-Skłodowska University in 1990, and defended it with her thesis "Meeting of contemporary music with plastic arts as a problem of philosophy of culture. The years 1945-1990".[3]
Buczek died in Kraków on 17 January 1993, at the age of 53.[4]
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