Tadeusz Baird

Tadeusz Baird studied at Chopin University of Music. The recorded working language is Polish. The field of work recorded is music. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical music, opera and atonality. Places of work recorded in the authority are Warsaw. Employment is recorded with Chopin University of Music. Distinctions recorded are Medal of the National Education Commission, Polish State Award, Work Flag Order, 1st class and Work Flag Order, 2nd class.

• Name — Tadeusz Baird • Born — 26 July 1928 • Birthplace — Munich, Bavaria, Germany • Died — 2 September 1981 • Place of death — Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland • Occupation — Composer • Organizations — * Warsaw Autumn Tadeusz Baird (26 July 19282 September 1981) was a Polish composer.

Baird was born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, in Poland. His father Edward was Polish, while his mother Maria (née Popov) was Russian. In 1944 at the age of 16 he was deported to Germany as a forced labourer, and after a failed escape attempt was imprisoned in a concentration camp. After liberation by the Americans he spent six months recovering at the military hospital in Zweckel before returning to Poland. Between 1947 and 1951 Baird studied composition and musicology in Warsaw under Piotr Rytek and Kazimierz Sikorski, and piano with Tadeusz Wituski. In 1949 he founded Group 49 along with Kazimierz Serocki and Jan Krenz. The aim of Group 49 was to write communicative and expressive music according to socialist realism, the dominant ideology in the Eastern Bloc at the time. After Stalin's death in 1953 he increasingly turned to serialism. In 1956, along with Kazimierz Serocki, he founded the Warsaw Autumn international contemporary music festival. In 1974 he began to teach composition at the National College of Music (currently the Music Academy) in Warsaw. In 1977, now a full professor, he was offered a post to teach a composition class at the Warsaw Academy of Music, and also membership in the Academie der Künste der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik – Berlin in 1979. He died suddenly in Warsaw on September 2, 1981 at age 53, as a result of a brain aneurysm.

• Sonatina I (1949) for solo piano • Sonatina II (1952) for solo piano • Little Suite for Children (1952) for solo piano

• Two Caprices for Clarinet and Piano (1953) (2nd Prize, Polish Composers' Union) • Cztery Preludia [Four Preludes] for Bassoon and Piano (1954) • Divertimento for Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, and Bassoon (1956) • String Quartet (1957) • Play for String Quartet (1971) • Variations in Rondo Form for String Quartet (1978)

• Sinfonietta (1949) • Symphony I (1950) - Polish National Prize, 1951 • Colas Breugnon: a suite in the old style for string orchestra with flute (1951) • Symphony II, quasi una fantasia (1952) • Concerto for Orchestra (1953) • Cassazione per orchestra (1956) • Four Essays (1958) - UNESCO Prize, 1959 • Variations Without a Theme (1962) • Epiphany Music (1963) • Four Novelettes for chamber orchestra (1967) • Sinfonia Breve (1968) • Symphony III (1969) - National Prize, 1970 • Psychodrama (1972) • Elegia (1973) • Canzona (1980)

• Piano Concerto (1949) • Four Dialogs for oboe and chamber orchestra (1964) - UNESCO Prize 1966 • Oboe Concerto (1973) • Scenes for cello, harp and orchestra (1977) • Concerto Lugubre (1975) for viola and orchestra

• Four Love Sonnets for baritone and orchestra (1956) to texts by Shakespeare • Exhortation for reciting voice and orchestra (1960) to old Hebrew texts • Erotyki for soprano and orchestra (1961) to texts by Małgorzata Hilar • Five Songs for mezzo-soprano and six instruments (1970) to texts by H. Poświatowska - National Prize, 1970 • Goethe Letters: Cantata for Baritone for mixed choir and orchestra (1970) to texts by Goethe and Charlotta von Stein • Głosy z oddali [Voices from Afar] for baritone and symphony orchestra (1981) to texts by J. Iwaszkiewicz (1981)

• Tomorrow, a musical drama to a libretto by J. S. Sito (1964-66)

Tadeusz Baird worked in music. He was employed by Chopin University of Music. He belonged to Academy of Arts of the GDR and Union of Polish Composers. He worked at Warsaw.

Tadeusz Baird is recorded with the occupation film score composer. Recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded with the occupation music educator. Classed in the genre classical music. Recorded as a citizen of Poland. Classed in the genre atonality.