Barbara Buczek

Barbara Buczek (9 January 1940 – 17 January 1993) was a Polish composer and music teacher who taught at the Academy of Music in Kraków.

Early life and education Barbara Buczek was born on 9 January 1940 in Kraków. She began learning to play the piano under her father's instruction, She studied with Kazimierz Mirski and Maria Bilińska-Regierowa at the State Music School (now the Academy of Music) in Kraków, and graduated from the latter's piano class in 1959. Buczek then continued her piano studies with Ludwik Stefański from 1959 to 1965, before studying composition with Bogusław Schaeffer between 1969 and 1974. She graduated with distinction from both classes.

Career Buczek stayed at the State Music School as a teacher, and taught piano, counterpoint and composition there.

Works Sonata breve per pianoforte (1968) 5'20" (Ariadne) Mikrosonata for violin solo (1968) 2'45" (Ariadne) Study No. 1, for flute (1968) 4'10" (Ariadne) String Quartet no. 1 (1968) 8'18" Quintet for wind instruments (1969) 7'20" (Ariadne) Intermezzo for piano and instruments (1969) 5'50" Koncert wokalny [Vocal Concerto] for twelve solo voices (1969) Fuga Study for violin solo (1970) 2'40" (Ariadne) Metafonie for large orchestra (1970) 7'20" Quintet (1971) 3'50" Musica per tredici strumenti (1971) 3'10" Labyrinth, for large orchestra (1974) Anekumena – Concerto for 89 instruments (1974) (PWM) Sextet for flute, viola, cello, soprano and two pianos (1974) 10'50" (Ariadne) Assemblage for alto flute and string orchestra (1975) 7' Simplex for orchestra (1976) 8'20" Eidos I for violin solo (1977) 4'2" (PWM/Ariadne) Eidos II (version 1) for tuba solo (1977) 11'30" Hipostaza I, for soprano, flute, alto saxophone, cello, and vibraphone (1978) 10'30" Eidos III for bassoon solo (1979) 6'20" (Ariadne) Violin Concerto (1979) 15'50" (Ariadne) Désunion, for soprano and contrabass (one performer, 1982) Eidos II (version 2) for tuba and piano (1984) Motet for instruments, recitor, baritone and tape (1984) 16'50" String Quartet No. 2 Transgressio (1985) 10'25" (PWM) Primus inter pares, for horn and 6 instruments (or for flute, soprano sax, bass clarinet, violin and bass) (1985) (10') Dikolon, for orchestra (1985) 15'10" Concerto for cello, choir and orchestra (1986) Hipostaza II, for string sextet (1987) Les sons ésotériques, for flute, computer and tape (1989) Study No. 1 for flute solo (1990) (Ariadne) Les accords ésotériques, for piano (1991) (Ariadne) Eidos IV, for piano (1991) (Ariadne) Intermezzo, for piano (1992)