A. Piwarski

pictorial cover

Szymanowski cover (1911)

decorative cover (1912)

Melcer cover (ca.1909)

Gieszczykiewicz cover (ca.1935)

History

Anton Piwarski started a music publishing business in Cracow in 1899. Its official start year was 1897 when Antoni Piwarski, Tadeusz Gieszczykiewicz, and J. Drozdowski, registered the name Antoni Piwarski i Sp., Księgarnia Muzyczna i Wypożyczalnia Nut (Antoni Piwarski and Partners, Music Bookshop and Sheet Music Library).

After Antoni Piwarski died in 1929, Gieszczykiewicz became the sole owner and changed the name to Gieszczykiewicz (1933). Over its 40 year activity the firm gained respect for its publication of Polish composers such as Ignaz Friedman, Mieczysław Karłowicz, Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński, Feliks Nowowiejski, Ludomir Różycki, Szeluta, Felicjan Szopski, Wallek-Walewski, and a small number by Karol Szymanowski. However, after Gieszczykiewicz died in 1937 the business tailed off, and although a new owner, Tadeusz Zapiór, took over during the war, it was finally closed in 1951.

Editions

Imprints, Agencies, Addresses

Imprints

• A. Piwarski
• A. Piwarski & Co.
• A. Piwarski i S^ka.
• Antoniego Piwarskiego i S^ki.
• Gieszczykiewicz

Addresses

• Kraków

Plate Numbers

Piwarski's plate numbers were issued in the following format: A.P. & Sp. ##, A.P. & Co. ###, or A.P. i S^ka. ###. Dates in italics are estimated.

Authority Control

Sources

• Music in the Culture of Polish Galicia, 1772-1914. Rochester Studies in Central Europe. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2002.
• Hofmeister XIX
• Andrzej Sitarz In the shadow of PWM: On some private music publishing houses in Poland in the first decade after the Second World War (article published in Musica Iagellonica, 2012) in English.

Links

• Category:Scores published by A. Piwarski