Frank Caliendo - Pacino

SOVINSKY (Sowinski) Wojciech (c. 1805, Lukaszewka, Podolia, now Vinnitsa region - 5 III 1880, Paris) - Polish lexicographer, music writer, pianist and composer. He studied with C. Czerny (fp.), A. Girovets and M.J. Laidesdorf (composition) in Vienna, where he debuted as a pianist. In 1828-30 he lived in various cities of Italy, then settled in Paris. In the history of Polish music. culture entered as the author of the first muses. dictionary of Polish and glories. musicians, which included a brief outline of the development of music in Poland with illustrations and musical examples (released in Paris in French, 1857, in Polish, 1874). He wrote a number of articles about the Polish people. music, about the theater, as well as a monograph on L. Beethoven and V.A. Mozart (published in 1869 and 1874 in Paris in the lane with it. in French.). Music S. (author of more than 100 op.) - in the tradition of early romanticism.