Simon Laks studied mathematics in Vilnius before studying harmony, counterpoint and composition at the conservatory in Warsaw, his home town * left Poland in 1926, 1927–29 studied at Paris conservatory under Pierre Vidal und Henri Rabaud * played the violin in cafés, on an ocean steamer, accompanied silent films and worked as a music teacher * key person in the association of young Polish musicians in Paris * awards and performances of early works as: Blues symphonique, Wind Quintet, String Quar
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).