Marek Sart, full name of Jan Szczerbiński (4 June 1926 in

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– 6 November 2010 in

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) was a Polish

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

and

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. He studied Polish

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at the

University of Łódź The University of Łódź (, ) is a public research university founded in 1945 in Łódź, Poland, as a continuation of three higher education institutions functioning in Łódź in the interwar period — the Teacher Training Institute (192 ...

and composition at the Academy of Music in Warsaw.

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