Jan Ekier was a Polish pianist and composer known for his authoritative edition of Chopin’s music for the Polish National Edition.
Ekier was born in Kraków, Poland. As a youth, he studied piano with Olga Stolfowa, and later composition with Bernardino Rizzi at the Władysław Żeleński School of Music. He continued formal music studies at the Warsaw Conservatory, where his teachers included Zbigniew Drzewiecki and Kazimierz Sikorski . He was awarded the International Chopin Piano Competition’s 8th prize in 1937. He was later an organ student with Bronisław Rutkowski. His first wife was the Polish actress Danuta Szaflarska. Ekier died in Warsaw, two weeks short of his 101st birthday.
National Edition
for: Piano
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 335298
(miniature edition)
for: Piano
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1539228
Chopin National Edition
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 344829
Edited from the sources
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 566119
for: Piano
Music lesson book
Item no.: 312569
National Edition Series A Volume 7
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 105772
Edited from the autographs, manuscript copies and original editions
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 132268
Edited from autographs, manuscript copies and original editions and with fingering by Jan Ekier
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Piano
Item no.: 125056
Series A – Works published during Chopin 's Lifetime
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 344835
Urtext
Chopin National Edition
for: Piano, orchestra
Piano reduction (2 piano's)
Item no.: 340102
National Edition Series A Volume 7
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1688120