Karol Maciej Korwin-Szymanowski (October 6, 1882?March 28, 1937) was a Polish composer and pianist. Biography Szymanowski (Korwin/?lepowron coat of arms) was born to a wealthy land-owning family of the Polish gentry in Tymoszówka, then in the Russian Empire, now in present-day Ukraine. He studied music privately with his father before going to Gustav Neuhaus' Elizavetgrad School of Music from 1892. From 1901 he attended the State Conservatory in Warsaw, of which he was later director from 1926 until retiring in 1930. Musical opportunities in Russian-occupied Poland being quite limited at the time, he travelled widely throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and the USA. These travels, especially those to the Mediterranean area, provided much inspiration to the composer and esthete. The fruits of these trips included not only musical works, but poetry and his novel on Pederasty Efebos, parts of which were subsequently

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