Grażyna Bacewicz (1909 – 1969)
Grażyna Bacewicz was born in Łódź, Poland. She received her first piano and violin lessons from her father, and then began studying at the Warsaw Conservatory, continuing in Paris at the École Normale de Musique studying violin and composition with Nadia Boulanger.
She combined composition with playing violin, including with the Polish Radio Orchestra. Some of her compositions date from the 1920s, but she focused exclusively on composing following injuries sustained in a car crash in 1954.
Grażyna Bacewicz wrote music in a variety of genres, including incidental music for plays, film scores, ballet works, choral music, songs, orchestral works, chamber music, and works for solo piano and violin. Between 1937 and 1965 she composed seven violin concertos.
This is her Concerto for String Orchestra from 1948.