Stokowski
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Stokowski is surname of:
- Ferdynand Ignacy StokowskiFerdynand StokowskiFerdynand Ignacy Stokowski was a Polish officer in the French army of the Napoleonic Wars. He was one of the squadron commanders of the Polish 1st Light Cavalry Regiment of the Imperial Guard and made a baron de l'Empire in 1811, before being dismissed from the French army with the rank of...
(1776, Sierpowie - 1827), a Polish officer - Leopold Anthony StokowskiLeopold StokowskiLeopold Anthony Stokowski was a British-born, naturalised American orchestral conductor, well known for his free-hand performing style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from many of the great orchestras he conducted.In America, Stokowski...
(1882 - 1977), a British-born American orchestral conductor- Olga Samaroff StokowskiOlga SamaroffOlga Samaroff was a pianist, music critic, and teacher. Her second husband was conductor Leopold Stokowski.Samaroff was born Lucy Mary Agnes Hickenlooper in San Antonio, Texas, and grew up in Galveston, where her family owned a business later wiped out in the Great 1900 Galveston hurricane...
- Olga Samaroff Stokowski