Stanisław Skrowaczewski obituary

Conductor and composer who was inspired by Anton BrucknerThe benevolent spirit of Anton Bruckner hovered over the life and career of the conductor and composer Stanisław Skrowaczewski, who has died aged 93, from childhood until performances last year. It was while walking in the streets of his native Lwów, in Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine), at the age of seven that he heard the strains of the Adagio of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony emanating from an open window.“I was in a tran