Bolesław Wallek-Walewski (born 23 January 1885 in L'vov, died 9 April 1944 in Kraków

Kraków

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) was a Polish

Poland

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 composer

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 and conductor

Conducting

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, lecturer

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 and Director of the Conservatory of Music

Academy of Music in Kraków

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 in Kraków.

From 1894 Bolesław Wallek-Walewski studied at the Galician Music Society Conservatory in L'vov under guidance of theory professor Stanislaw Niewiadomski, from 1900-1904 with Wladyslaw Zelenski and Felicjan Szopskiego at the Conservatory of the Music Society in Kraków, and then between 1906-1907 with Hugo Riemann in Leipzig

Leipzig

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. From 1908 he became professor at the Conservatory in Kraków Institute of Music and from 1910 at the Conservatory in Kraków.