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Włodzimierz Kotoński was born on 23 July 1925, studied with Piotr Rytel and Tadeusz Szeligowski at the Warsaw Higher School of Music. In 1957-61 he attended the International Courses of New Music in Darmstadt. One of the regular collaborators the Polish Radio Experimental Studio, he also worked at the electronic
music studios of Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne (1966-67) and Groupe de Recherchers Musicales ORTF in Paris (1970). In 1970-71 he was in West Berlin as fellow of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. Since 1983 he has lectured on composition and directed the Electronic Music Studios at the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. Since 1983 he has been professor of this school (retired 1995). Among his numerous pupils there are such composers as Paweł Szymański, Hanna Kulenty, Stanisław Kurpowicz, Tadeusz Wielecki, Edward Sielicki, Jacek Grudzień and Paweł Mykietyn.
Kotoński also lectured at many international institutions. He was the guest lecturer of composition and electroacoustic music in Stockholm (1971), Buffalo (1978), at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (1982), at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem (1990), and at the Conservatory in Alkmaar, Sweden (1993). In 1983-89 he served as the president of the Polish Society for Contemporary Music (the Polish branch of ISCM).
LIST OF WORKS
Chamber Music
Quartettino, for 4 french horns - 1950 (Agencja Autorska 1974)
5 Miniatures, for violin and piano - 1955
6 Miniatures, for clarinet and piano - 1957
Trio, for flute, guitar,and percussion - 1960 (PWM 1962)
Canto per complesso da camera - 1961 (PWM 1970)
Selection I, for 4 jazz musicians - 1962 (PWM 1965)
Pezzo per flauto e pianoforte - 1962 (PWM 1967)
Quintet, for wood winds and horn - 1964 (PWM 1966)
a battere, for viola, cello, guitar, harpsichord and metal percussion - 1966 (PWM 1968)
Pour quatre, for clarinet, trombone, cello and piano - 1968 (PWM 1969)
Lyrical Scenes, for 9 instruments - 1986 (Moeck 1989)
Tlaloc, for harpsichord and percussion- 1987 (Moeck 1995)
Birds, 8 short pieces for clarinet, cello and piano - 1989
Motu proprio, for bassoon and piano - 1992 (Brevis 1992)
Sonant, for 4 trombones - 1992
Variable Structures, for clarinet, trombone, piano and cello - 1994
Sextet, for woodwinds and piano - 1998 (PWM 2000)
String Quartet no 1 - 2002
Wilanow Landscapes, for flute and string quartet
Orchestral Works
Poemat - 1949
Tańce goralskie [Mountaneers' Dances] - 1950
Szkice baletowe [Ballet Sketches], a suite - 1951
Prelude and Passacaglia - 1953
Chamber Music, for 21 instruments - 1958 (Schott 1961)
Musique en relief, for 6 orchestra groups - 1959 (Schott 1961)
Concerto per quattro, for harp, harpsichord, guitar, piano and chamber orchestra - 1960 (Moeck/PWM 1996)
Musica per fiati e timpani - 1963 (PWM 1964)
Music for 16 cymbals and strings - 1969 (Moeck/PWM 1974)
Concerto per Oboe - 1972 (Moeck/PWM 1974)
Róża Wiatrów [Wind Rose], for orchestra - 1976 (Moeck/PWM 1978)
Bora, for orchestra - 1979 (Moeck/PWM 1984)
Sirocco, for orchestra - 1980 (Moeck/PWM 1982)
Terra incognita, for orchestra - 1984 (Moeck/PWM 1985)
La gioia, for string orchestra - 1991 (PWM 1996)
Concerto, for electric guitar and wind orchestra - 1976
Symphony no. 1, for large orchestra - 1995
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - 1996
Symphony no. 2, for orchestra - 2001
Concerto for clarinet and orchestra - 2004
Symphony no. 3 ("Mountains"), for choir and orchestra - 2005
Music for Solo Instruments
Romance i toccata, for harp - 1951
4 Preludes, for piano - 1952 (PWM 1967)
Monochromie, for oboe - 1964
Mellan Hoch Fiss, for trumpet - 1971
Morton Feldman in memoriam, for flute - 1988
Bucolica, for flute - 1989 (Moeck 1994)
Cadenze e arie, for guitar - 1989 (Rossenberg Musikalien 1990)
3 Rhythmical etudes, for piano - 1990 (Brevis 1992)
Vocal-Instrumental Music
Sny o Potędze [Dreams of Power], for female voice and strings - 1948 (PWN 1981)
Harfa Eola [Aeolian Harp], for soprano and 4 musicians - 1973
3 deutsche Lieder, for baritone and guitar (Rossberg Musikalien 1998)
Drei Gesaenge texte: Durs Gruenbein), for bariton and guitar - 1997 (Rossberg Musikalien 1998)
7 Haiku, for soprano and chamber ensemble - 1994
Polskie madrygały [Polish Madrigals], for soprano, 3 lutes and baroque harp - 2004
Electroacoustic Music
Etiuda na jedno uderzenie w talerz [Study on one cymbal stroke], for tape - 1959 (PWM 1963)
Microstructures, for tape - 1963
Klangspiele, for 2 tapes and 4 musicians - 1967
AELA, for tape - 1970 (PWM 1975)
Eurydice, for tape - 1970
Les ailes [Wings], for tape - 1973
Zatarty ślad, epitafium [Erased trace, an epitaph] for tape - 1982
Textures, for tape - 1984
Zywe obrazy w ogrodach w stylu angielskim [Live pictures in English-style gardens] for tape - 1986
Spring Music, for flute, violin, synthesizer, tape - 1978 (PWM 1979)
Pełnia lata [Midsummer], for clarinet, cello, piano and tape - 1979 (Moeck 1980)
Herbstlied [Autumn song], for harpichord and tape - 1981 (Moeck 1982)
Winterreise [Winter's Journey], for flute, oboe, violin, tape, cello and tape - 1995
Antiphonae, for tape - 1989
Tierra caliente, for tape - 1992
Instrumental Theatre
Multiplay - 1971 (Moeck/PWM 1978)
Musical Games, for 5 instruments - 1973 (Moeck/PWM 1974)
Promenada I i II, for clarinet, cello, 2 synthesizers - 1973
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