Witold LUTOSLAWSKl

Background

LUTOSLAWSKl, Witold was born on January 25, 1913 in Warsaw. Son of Jozef and Maria Lutoslawski.

Education

Warsaw Conservatoire.

Career

President Polish Composers’ Union 1973-1979. Honorary Doctorate.Mus. (Cleveland Institute of Music) 1971, (Glasgow" University) 1977, Honorary degree (University Warsaw) 1973, (Lancaster University) 1975, (Copernicus University, Toruri) 1980, (Durham University) 1983, (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) 1984, (Royal Northern College, Manchester) 1987, (Queen"s University, Belfast) 1987, Honorary Doctor Fine Arts (Northwestern University Evanston-Chicago) 1974. Honorary Doctorate. Humanity, Latin Little

(Baldwin-Wallace, Berea, Ohio) 1987.

Honorary Doctor of Music (Cambridge) 1987. Honorary degree Music Academy (Warsaw) 1988.

Honorary degree (New England Conservatory of Music, Boston) 1990, (University des Sciences Humaines, Strasbourg) 1990. City of Warsaw Music.

Minister of Culture"son

Commander des arts et des lettres, Paris 1982.

Membership

Swedish Royal Academy, of Music since 1963. Freie Akademie der Kiinste Hamburg since 1966, Institute Society for Contemporary Music since 1969, Polish Composers’ Union since 1971, American Academy, of Arts and Letters, National Institute of Arts and Letters 1975, Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music 1978, Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft. Akademie der Kiinste Berlin since 1968.

Deutsche Akademie der Kiinste, Berlin (Doctorate.D.R.) since 1970, Bayerische Akademie der schonen Kiinste, Munich 1973.

European Academy, of Arts, Sciences and Humanities since 1980. Academy, europeenne des Sciences des Arts et des Lettres.

Academy Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome) 1987. Of numerous asscns. and academics

Interests

• Literature, other arts, yachting.

Connections

Married Maria-Danuta Dygat in 1946.

Father:

Jozef

Mother:

Maria Lutoslawski

Spouse:

Maria-Danuta Dygat