Prominent Polish music critic dies
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
21.01.2016 17:56
Prominent Polish music journalist, critic and promoter of classical music and opera Bogusław Kaczyński has died in Warsaw at the age of 73.
Bogusław Kaczyński (archive picture). Photo: PAP/Stach Leszczyński
“My greatest accomplishment in life is achieving my childhood dreams. I wanted to be an artist, I wanted to be famous and I wanted the world to be in the palm of my hand – and all that thanks to music,” Kaczyński once said of himself.
Sławomir Pietras, a prominent former head of several opera theatres, said: “Thanks to [Kaczyński], millions of people in Poland started to take an interest in classical music.”
“[Kaczyński] was an important pillar of Polish culture,” Pietras added.
Born in 1942, Kaczyński was a music theorist, pianist and a graduate of the Academy of Music in Warsaw.(ua/pk)
Source: PAP