Background
He was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1905 and studied with Józef Śliwiński and Henryk Opieński in Poland, and with Ignacy January Paderewski in Switzerland.
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Estanislao Niedzielski
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His given name is also seen as Stanislaw or Stanislaus. He gave his first concert in London in 1925. He played Cyril Scott"s Piano Concerto Number.
1 in March 1928, with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Sir Dan Godfrey (the source refers to him as a "teenager", but he appears to have been about 23).
On 18 January 1930, in Madrid, he gave the first performance of Joaquín Turina"s Contes d"Espagne, Secretariat II, Operation 47.
He toured to many countries, including frequent performances in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Foreign a performance at Birmingham Town Hall around 1950 he brought his own piano in a box trailer towed behind his car. He settled in Paris, dying there in 1975 of a tropical disease contracted during an African tour.
Niedzielski is not well known today, but he had a commanding technique as shown in his own paraphrase on Johann Strauss II"s A Thousand and One Nights Waltz, Operation
346, recorded in London in 1930. His recordings are now rare (some have been reissued on Civil Defense in recent years):
Chopin: Ballade, Scherzo, Polonaise, Impromptu, Mazurkas
Chopin: Sonata Number. 2 in B flat minor; nine études
Chopin: Mazurkas (selection.
1931)
Liszt: Liebestraum Number.
2
Mozart: Piano Sonata Number. 11 in A
Ludomir Różycki: Légende
Schumann: Symphonic Studies, Operation
13
Johann Strauss II arr. Niedzielski: A Thousand and One Nights, Operation
346
pieces by Claude Debussy, Federico Mompou and others
