Bolesław Kon

Bolesław Kon (9 December 1906 – 10 June 1936) was a Polish concert pianist who won international acclaim in his brief career.

In 1924, he returned to Poland and continued his studies, first at the Chopin Higher Academy, and then at the Warsaw Conservatory under Aleksander Michałowski and afterwards under Juliusz Wertheim and Zbigniew Drzewiecki.

In the following year, after a short period of preparation living in Vienna, he entered the second International Music Competition there and obtained first prize.

The need to continue his career caused him to cut short a period of treatment, and it was in this way that the fatal melancholy overtook him.

[1] According to Professor Drzewiecki, Kon was the greatest pianistic genius that he ever heard; Mme Margerita Trombini-Kazuro described his playing as of great nobility and spontaneity.