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Joanna Sochacka

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The first Polish female composer to achieve worldwide fame.A rare collection of piano works by Grayna Bacewicz!A collection of piano works centered on the Sonata by Grayna Bacewicz (19091969), the first Polish female composer to be recognized as a world-class musician both in Poland and abroad, who wrote a new chapter in the history of Polish music.Bacewicz studied composition under the legendary teacher Nadia Boulanger at the cole Normale de Musique de Paris and demonstrated her exceptional talent in various capacities, including as a violinist and concertmaster of the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra.Since she was an accomplished violinist herself, her works involving the violin are frequently featured; this Collection of Piano Works is therefore quite rare. The early, unnumbered Piano Sonata, composed in 1930, and the Concert Etudes, composed in 1949, are receiving their world premiere rec