Ryszard Sielicki Musique de chambre Marucha Losakiewicz-Marcyniak Pawlowski Quatuor Opium

Ryszard Sielicki studied theory of music with Kazimierz Sikorski at the Warsaw Music Conservatory. Prior to the outbreak of the Second World War he started working with the Odeon Record Label and its director Jerzy Gert. After 1939 he found himself in the Soviet Union. He started to study composition in Minsk, Belarus with Vasily Zolotarev. One of collegues was Mieczyslaw Weinberg. In 1943 he begun studying composition at the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow with Dmitri Shostakovich, Anatoly Aleksandrow and Yuri Shaporin. He completed his studies in 1948. After returning to Poland in 1956 he became the Artistic Director of the Polskie Nagrania record company, where he established such legendary series of recordings as the Musica Antiqua Polonica and the Polish Jazz series. While directing Polskie Nagrania he worked with and promoted the country’s most famous artists such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Henryk Mikolaj Górecki, Konstanty Andrzej Kulka, Wanda Wilkomirska, Piotr Janowski, Wanda Polanska and others. As a composer he devoted himself during this time mostly to popular music. In 1967 he started to compose musical comedies and musical plays: The Lady from Maxim’s, Schweik, Monte Christo among others. He also wrote the music to many fairy tales for children which were released on LPs.(...)