Book: Grażyna Bacewicz
Chapter: Early Life: Łódź
Blurb:
Grażyna Bacewicz receives an early music education from her father (piano, violin and music theory lessons) and at age 12 starts composition lessons with Kazimierz Sikorski, who notes her exceptional musical talent, her independent spirit and tremendous work ethic. By age 15 she is writing and performing her own works (including fugue-based material), already aware that her main goal in life is to write music.