Lidia Grychtołówna

Lidia Grychtołówna (born 1928 in Rybnik) is a Polish pianist.

In 1955 she was awarded the V International Chopin Piano Competition's seventh prize, and one year later she shared the third prize of the inaugural edition of the Robert Schumann Competition with Mikhail Voskresensky. She subsequently performed throughout the world, and held a professorship at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. She served as a juror at the Chopin Competition's X, XI and XIII editions.

Grychtołówna has been decorated the Gold Medal of the City of Milan.

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