Felix Labunski (27 December 1892 – 28 April 1979) was a Polish-born French-American composer. Labunski attended

Warsaw Conservatory The Chopin University of Music (, UMFC) is a musical conservatorium and academy located in central Warsaw, Poland. It is the oldest and largest music school in Poland, and one of the largest in Europe.Witold Maliszewski Witold Maliszewski (, ; 20 July 1873 – 18 July 1939) was a Polish composer, founder of Odessa Conservatory, and a professor of Warsaw Conservatory. Biography Maliszewski was born in Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). He graduat ...

. He then became a pupil of

Nadia Boulanger Juliette Nadia Boulanger (; 16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher, conductor and composer. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organis ...

and

Paul Dukas Paul Abraham Dukas ( 1 October 1865 – 17 May 1935) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, having abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions. His best-k ...

at the Ecole Normale in Paris. His work was part of the music event in the art competition at the

1932 Summer Olympics The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1932) were an international multi-sport event held from July 30 to August 14, 1932, in Los Angeles, California, United States. The Games were held du ...

. He emigrated to the United States in 1936 and became an American citizen in 1941. He taught at

Marymount Manhattan College Marymount Manhattan College is a private college on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. As of 2020, enrollment consisted of 1,571 undergraduate students with women making up 80.1% and men 19.9% of student enrollment. Columbia University Masters ...

from 1940 until 1941, at the Cincinnati College Conservatory between 1945 and 1955 and at the

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from 1955 until 1964 when he retired.

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Sławomir Dobrzański Sławomir Pawel Dobrzański (born 11 May 1968) is a Polish-American pianist, teacher and musicologist. Biography He was born in Wrocław (Poland). He is a graduate of the Chopin University of Music, Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, where he stu ...

piano, David Pickering organ

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1892 births 1979 deaths French male composers 20th-century American male composers Art competitors at the 1932 Summer Olympics People from Garwolin County 20th-century French male musicians 20th-century American composers Polish emigrants to France French emigrants to the United States {{France-composer-stub

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