Background
He was born on May 4, 1870 near the city of Kielce. Stojowski began his musical training with his mother, and with Polish composer Władysław Żeleński.
He was born on May 4, 1870 near the city of Kielce. Stojowski began his musical training with his mother, and with Polish composer Władysław Żeleński.
At the age of eighteen he moved to Paris and studied piano with Louis Diémer and composition with Léo Delibes.
In Krakow, as a seventeen-year-old student, he made his debut as a concert pianist performing Beethoven"s Piano Concerto Number. 3 with the local orchestra. According to Stojowski, however, in a December 1901 interview that appeared in a Warsaw magazine, the teachers who had the most profound influence on him as a musician were the Polish violinist-composer Wladyslaw Gorski and pianist-composer Ignacy January Paderewski.
Stojowski"s music was found worthy enough to be included in the first concert of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, on 5 November 1901.
His Symphony in Doctorate minor, Operation Besides having his symphony performed at that first prestigious concert, Stojowski appeared as a recitalist in December and again as the soloist in Saint-Saëns" Piano Concerto Number.
4 in January 1902. New York became his home for the rest of his life.
The institute would later merge in 1924 with the Juilliard Graduate School to form the Juilliard School, where Stojowski would also teach during the summers of 1932 and 1940-1946. In New York, he was acclaimed as a great composer, pianist and pedagogue, and had the distinction of being the first Polish composer to have an entire concert devoted to his music performed by the New York Philharmonic.
After six years of teaching at the Institute of Musical Art, Stojowski then headed the piano department at the Von Ende School of Music until 1917. Finally, due to the large number of students who wished to work with him, he opened his own "Stojowski Studios" at his four-story brownstone home at 150 West 76th Street in Manhattan.
Among Stojowski"s pupils were Mischa Levitzki, Alfred Newman, Antonia Brico, Arthur Loesser, and Oscar Levant.
He died on November 5, 1946 in New York City.