A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Sowinski, Albert

by George Grove

SOWINSKI, Albert, of Polish origin, was born in 1803 at Ladyzyn in the Ukraine. He arrived in Vienna at an early age, was the pupil of Czerny, Leidesdorf, and Seyfried, and the friend of Hummel, Moscheles, and others. In 1830 he settled in Paris as a player and littérateur, and died there March 5, 1880. He compiled a Biographical Dictionary of Polish musicians (Les Musiciens Polonais, etc.; Paris, Le Clere, 1857), and published a translation of Schindler's 'Beethoven' (Paris, Garnier, 1865), of which latter we will only say that it is atrociously executed. An oratorio by him, 'St. Adalbert,' is in the Library of the late Sacred Harmonic Society.

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