Aleksander Michałowski

Around this time, Michałowski befriended and studied with Karol Mikuli (1821–1897), who had received lessons from Chopin between 1844 and 1848, and was head of the Lviv Conservatory.

Michałowski also met Chopin's gifted pupil Princess Marcelina Czartoryska (née Radziwiłł), who played some mazurkas for him.

A later successor of Michałowski's at the Warsaw, Zbigniew Drzewiecki, wrote: As an interpreter of Chopin, he created a certain style of rendering the composer's works which found many imitators.

It consisted of the chiselling of swift passages and stressing their elegance in smoothing the edges of sharper expressive climaxes, in lending Chopin's works the air of almost drawing-room sentimentality.

1855) were among his earlier pupils, and Stanislaw Urstein, Edwarda Chojnacka, Wiktor Chapowicki, Józef Śmidowicz, Vladimir Sofronitsky, Jadwiga Sarnecka, and Bolesław Woytowicz among the later ones.

Heinrich Neuhaus, a renowned teacher, whose own pupils included Sviatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels, Yakov Zak, and Ryszard Bakst, received lessons from Michałowski.

Radziwonowicz[12] also lists Stefania Allina, Zofia Buckiewiczowa, Janina Familier Hepner, Zofia Frankiewicz, Stefania Niekrasz, Stanislaw Nawrocki, Ludomir Różycki, Piotr Rytel, Henryk Schulz-Evler, Władysław Szpilman, Juliusz Wolfsohn, and Alexander Zakin as Michałowski pupils.

Józef Turczyński, his immediate successor at Warsaw, and after him, Zbigniew Drzewiecki, were not his personal students, but continued the tradition of his work as leading teachers of the Polish school.

However, he was persuaded back to the platform by a colleague, Mme Ruszczycówna, and gave a large number of concerts in the following years, in 1919 celebrating a half-century since his debut.