High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Zygmunt Denis Antoni Jordan de Stojowski (May 4, 1870 November 5, 1946) was a Polish pianist and composer. Born near the city of Kielce, Stojowski began his musical training with his mother, and with Polish composer W adys aw ele ski. In Kraków, as a seventeen-year-old student, he made his debut as a concert pianist performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the local orchestra. At the age of eighteen he moved to Paris and studied piano with Louis Diemer and composition with Léo Delibes. Two years later at the Paris Conservatoire, he would win first prizes in piano performance, counterpoint and fugue. According to Stojowski, however, in a December 1901 interview that appeared in a Warsaw magazine, the teachers who had the most profound influence on him as a musician were the Polish violinist-composer Wladyslaw Gorski and pianist-composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski.