Koczalski, Raoul

1885

Is said by some musical authorities to have begun his public career at the age of four. He was born in Warsaw, where he received his early musical training from his parents, and later from Godowski. He played in Vienna in 1892, and in 1893 in London, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Paris and other European cities. He is said to have been Court pianist to the Shah of Persia. Since the celebration of his one-thousandth appearance before the public, in 1896, he seems to have abandoned concert work. Among the compositions he has thus far written are a one-act opera, Hagar; and for the piano, a scherzo-fantasia, a fantasia in F minor, a grand fantasia in D, besides a gavotte and some waltzes.