{{Short description|Polish pianist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Adam Harasiewicz | image = Adam Harasiewicz (cropped).jpg | image_upright = | alt = | caption = Harasiewicz in the Netherlands in 1963 | birth_name = | alias = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1932|07|01|df=y}} | birth_place = Chodziez, Poland | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date first) --> | death_place = | genre = Classical | occupation = Pianist | years_active = <!-- YYYY–YYYY (or –present) --> | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} or {{Official URL}} --> }}
'''Adam Harasiewicz''' (born 1 July 1932) is a Polish classical concert pianist.
== Biography == Harasiewicz was born in Chodziez. After studying violin for two months, at the age of 10 he began piano study, and at age 15 he obtained first prize in a contest at Rzeszów. At 18 he entered the State Higher School of Music in Kraków (at present Academy of Music in Kraków) where he studied with Zbigniew Drzewiecki.<ref>Sleevenote, 'Adam Harasiewicz – Chopin Waltzes' (Philips LP, World Series Stereo PHC 9034).</ref>
Harasiewicz studied with Drzewiecki for six years, and became pre-eminent as an interpreter of Chopin, excelling through a combination of superb technique, lyrical imagination, exceptional consistency of stylistic and idiomatic approach, and (through all of these) in playing of a characteristic temperament which identifies him as a true exponent of the Polish Romantic tradition.<ref>J. Methuen-Campbell, ''Chopin Playing from the Composer to the Present Day'' (Victor Gollancz, London 1981), pp. 122-23, and citing Dr Jan Weber's note to a 2-record set of Concours first-prizewinners (1927–65) (Muza XL 0654-55).</ref> He won the first prize at the V International Chopin Piano Competition in 1955.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://konkurs.chopin.pl/en/edition/v|title=''Harasiewicz Winner of the First Prize in 1955''|publisher=konkurs.chopin.pl|accessdate=22 November 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230043126/http://konkurs.chopin.pl/en/edition/v|archivedate=30 December 2010}}</ref> He then spent some years in Belgium, before settling in Austria.<ref>Methuen-Campbell (as above).</ref> Harasiewicz was a member of the jury at the International Chopin Piano Competition in 1995, 2010, 2015, and 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ddg.art.pl/chopin/jury.html|title=''Harasiewicz Member of the Jury in 1995''|publisher=ddg.art.pl|accessdate=22 November 2010| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20101107202225/http://www.ddg.art.pl/chopin/jury.html| archivedate= 7 November 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>
He has recorded the complete works<ref>According to Methuen-Campbell (as above).</ref> of Chopin and also much by Szymanowski.<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=adam-harasiewicz-q28326|pure_url=yes}}|title=''Harasiewicz's Recordings at Allmusic''|publisher=allmusic.com|accessdate=22 November 2010}}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * https://web.archive.org/web/20051025023405/http://inkpot.com/classical/harasiewicz.html
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