Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński
Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński was a Polish composer, pianist, conductor, and music teacher. The article gives his birth date as either September 21 or July 25, 1869, and lists his birthplace as either Kalisz or Marcelin in Warsaw. Its body states that he died in Warsaw on April 28, 1928, while the infobox gives April 18, 1928.
Melcer-Szczawiński graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory, where he studied piano with Rudolf Strobl and composition with Zygmunt Noskowski. He also graduated from the University of Warsaw as a mathematician. From 1892 to 1894, he continued his musical training in Vienna under Theodor Leschetizky.
In 1895, he won first prize as a composer at the Anton Rubinstein Competition in Berlin. He taught at the conservatories of Helsinki in 1896, Lviv from 1896 to 1899, Lodz from 1899 to 1903, Vienna from 1903 to 1906, and Warsaw from 1918 to 1927. He became director of the Warsaw Conservatory in 1922. His students included Selim Palmgren, Mieczysław Horszowski, and Alexandre Tansman. From 1908 to 1909, he led the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.
His compositions include a symphony, the opera Maria (1904), incidental music for Stanisław Wyspiański's tragedy Protesilaus and Laodamia (1902), two piano concertos, a piano trio, and a violin sonata. He was the father of Wanda Melcer, a poet, writer, and journalist.