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Tadeusz Baird

Tadeusz Baird (1928–1981) was a Polish composer and teacher, born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, who studied composition with Bolesław Woytowicz, Kazimierz Sikorski, Piotr Rytel and Piotr Perkowski at the Warsaw State Higher School of Music, as well as piano and musicology. In 1949 he founded Group 49 with Kazimierz Serocki and Jan Krenz, and in 1956 he and Serocki were among the founders of the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music. His early music was influenced by neoclassicism, but he later adopted twelve-tone techniques while retaining a strongly lyrical and ex...