Czesław Marek was a Polish composer, pianist, and piano teacher who settled in Switzerland during World War I.
Education
Born in the town of Przemyśl in Eastern Galicia, near Lwów (now Lviv in Ukraine), Marek studied in that city and then later in Vienna, where he became a private pupil of Theodor Leschetizky. He studied composition with Karl Weigl and later, in Strasbourg, with Hans Pfitzner.
Career
Up to 1924 he made a sustained attempt to carve out a career as a concert pianist. Though he afterwards withdrew from the concert stage, Marek continued to teach and compose. He died in Zurich aged 94.
Among his most significant compositions are the fugal Triptychon, operation
8 (1913, rev 1923) for piano, the one-movement Sinfonia, operation