A very important, albeit little known figure (little known outside Poland that is). This Polish composer studied at the Warsaw Conservatory in the 1930s. He was part of the students' strike after Karol Szymanowski was fired from his post over there. As a consequence, Maciejewski was expelled and never finished his composition studies. He spent almost his entire life abroad.
Szymanowski was his idol. Maciejewski even wrote his own set of Kurpie Songs (and a very good set it is too!). His best known work is a gigantic Requiem Mass. He wrote in something that could be described as a romantic (neoromantic? postromantic?) idiom. He is the author of the only important mazurka cycle written in Poland after Szymanowski.
