Tomasz Sikorski
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Born19 May 1939
Died12 November 1988 (aged 49)
Resting placePowązki Cemetery
AlmamaterHigher State School of Music
Tomasz Sikorski | |
|---|---|
| Born | 19 May 1939 |
| Died | 12 November 1988 (aged 49) |
| Resting place | Powązki Cemetery |
| Alma mater | Higher State School of Music |
| Era | 20th-century |
| Movement | Sonorism |
| Father | Kazimierz Sikorski |
Tomasz Sikorski (19 May 1939 – 12 November 1988) was a Polish composer and pianist.
The son of the composer Kazimierz Sikorski, he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory with Zbigniew Drzewiecki. Later, thanks to a scholarship from the French government, he studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. From 1975–76, as a recipient of a Senior-Fulbright Scholarship from the US government, he worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City.
He is the main so-called "Polish minimalist" (the other: Zygmunt Krauze). In addition to piano works and radio opera, Sikorski composed numerous instrumental works, among them:
- Sequenza I for Symphony Orchestra (1966)
- Homophony for 4 Trumpets, 4 Horns, 4 Trombones, Piano and Gong (1970)
- Holzwege (1972)
- Vox humana for Mixed Choir, 2 Solo Pianos, 12 Brass Instruments, 4 Gongs and 4 Tam-tams (1971)
- Other voices for 24 Wind Instruments, 4 Gongs and Chimes, (1975)
- Sickness unto Death (Choroba na śmierć) (1976). The words are taken from Søren Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death, 1849
- Music in Twilight for Piano and Orchestra (1978)
- Strings in the Earth (1980)
- Das Schweigen der Sirenen (1986)
- Diario (1987)
