Krenz, Jan

Jan Krenz ( Polish Jan Krenz ; born July 14, 1926 , Wloclawek ) is a Polish composer and conductor .

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He graduated from the State Higher School of Music in Lodz ( 1947 ). In 1947 - 1949 he worked at the Poznan Philharmonic, made his debut as an opera conductor in the production of Mozart's "Abductions from Seral" . From 1949 - assistant Grzegorz Fitelberg in the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice , in 1953-1968 he headed it. In 1963, he directed the orchestra’s historical world tour, which included 55 concerts in the USSR, Mongolia, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

Since 1967 - the head of the Warsaw Bolshoi Theater, staged Verdi's Othello, Mussorgsky 's Boris Godunov , and Richard Strauss 's Electra here. In 1979 - 1982, General Director of Bonn and Music Director of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra . In 2005 - 2007 he headed the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra .

As a composer made his debut during the Second World War with a string quartet ( 1943 ), first performed at an illegal concert. The author of music for a number of significant Polish films, including Andrzej Wajda's “Channel” and most of the films of Andrzej Munch . In the 1970s and in the first half of the 1980s, he departed from composition, since 1985 he performed with a number of symphonic and choral works.