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Mikolaj Niedźwiedzki (born December 11, 1893 in Kyiv, died after 1976 in the USA) - Polish composer and musicologist, poet, friend of Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz.

The son of Franciszek Niedźwiedzki, owner of the store in Kiev and German Urban. He was educated at the Kiev Secondary School (Gymnasium) No. 4, where he met Iwaszkiewicz in 1909. In 1910, he dropped out of school because of a love affair. During the October Revolution most of the Bear's siblings died of exhaustion. From 1920 to 1922 he taught music at a music school and at the same time, during the period 1920-1927, he was a music teacher in the railway profession. During this period he worked as a forest guardian for two years. In 1927 he graduated from the Lysenko Institute of Music in a creative and composer's specialty and became a composer. From 2 February 1932 to 1936 he was the director of composition at the music school in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, and since 1936 he was a lecturer and dean of the composition department of the State Conservatory of Music in Kiev, where he also became a professor. In the autumn of 1943, after being freed in Germany, in Bavaria, in Deggendorf, where he lived for 6 years, he taught private music lessons. He spent six years in Morocco in Casablanca, where he left for Washington, DC in October 1958, where he worked as a music professor at the Ukrainian Music Institute in New York.

Bears adopted a boy during World War II, which he later raised in Germany. This Kosimo Dmitrik boy was later a doctor of history and poet - published a collection of poems by Miroir des vanités. (Illuistrations de Robert Steichen, Bruxelles / Paris, Editions Brepols, 1965). Friendship with Iwaszkiewicz In his memoirs, Iwaszkiewicz devotes a separate chapter to the Bear (Kola Niedzwiedzki), pointing to Nicholas as one of the two closest friends of youth and a person who greatly influenced his intellectual and artistic development. Dedicated to Nicholas Niedźwiedzki poem Quattrocento (1910). Together they composed a sonata in F minor in 1911, and then worked on an unfinished opera. They also ran an informal poetic-philosophical group, wrote a few comedies, but devoted most of their attention to music. Close relations maintained until the death of the bear. The work of the Bear

From the poetry of the Niedźwiedzki, one sonnet (Autumn, son XXIX) was published in J. Iwaszkiewicz's book "My Book of Memories" and in articles by Kłobukowska. A number of other poems and compositions are preserved in manuscripts at the. Anna and Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz in Stawisko. There are, among others. Songs written for words by Iwaszkiewicz and Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński. Bibliography

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