Music Schools Group in Bydgoszcz
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Artur Rubinstein's Music Schools Group in Bydgoszcz Polish: Zespół Szkół Muzycznych w Bydgoszczy |
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Szwalbego Street 1, Bydgoszcz Poland |
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| Coordinates | 53°7′45″N 18°00′31″E / 53.12917°N 18.00861°E |
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| Opened | 1925 |
| Principal | Ewa Stąporek-Pospiech |
The Arthur Rubinstein Music Schools Group is an association of music schools of primary and secondary education which seat is located in the building at Szwalbego Street 1 in Bydgoszcz.
Polish music education began to develop in Bydgoszcz at the beginning of the 1920s, soon after the restoration of Second Polish Republic. Previously, since 1904, a German conservatoire located at Adam Mickiewicz Alley N°9 had been educating more than 250 students.
In 1921, the first Polish private music school has been created in Bydgoszcz, led by Leon Jaworski, a conductor educated in Regensburg. It was organized on the model of the German conservatoire, with three degrees of education: lower, upper and virtuoso. It received in 1936 a license from the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Public Enlightenment,but had to cease its operations with the outbreak of World War II.
Another Polish music school has been established, on the initiative of then mayor Bernard Śliwiński in 1925, under the name Municipal Institute of Music (Polish: Miejski Instytut Muzyczny or MIM), directed by Poznań-born pianist Zygmunt Lisicki. The seat of the school was in the Copernicanum, today's at Kopernika street 1, then moved to Paderewski street 32. Teaching staff were teachers from the Academy of Music in Poznan, teaching in three levels, lower, middle and higher.
In 1927, the MIM was reorganized under the lead of professor Zdzislaw Jahnke, and renamed the Municipal Conservatoire of Music, with public school rights; albeit a private school, it was partly subsidized by the City Council of Bydgoszcz. Teaching of the numerous pupils (160 in 1927) from 1927 to 1938 was carried out in a rented building at Piotra Skargi Street N° 14, and then at Gdańska Street N°71. The Music School was organized in departments:
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