1. Jerzy Waldorff-Preyss of the Nabram coat of arms was a Polish media personality, public intellectual, socialite, music critic and music aficionado.
10 Facts About Jerzy Waldorff
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Jerzy Waldorff wrote over twenty books, mostly on the subject of classical music and society.
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Jerzy Waldorff was born in Warsaw to a Polish engineer and landowner, Witold Preyss.
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Jerzy Waldorff's family moved first to Koscielna Wies in the historical Kujawy region and then to Rekawczyn, Greater Poland, where his father bought an estate after World War I Waldorff spent his childhood there, in a manor house at the end of an avenue bordered with 100-year-old lime trees.
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Jerzy Waldorff wrote later that the family left the estate and moved back to Warsaw soon after his father's death.
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Jerzy Waldorff spent his childhood in Rekawczyn, initially taught by his mother and private tutors.
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Between 1936 and 1939 Jerzy Waldorff worked as a music-review columnist for the Kurier Poranny newspaper.
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Jerzy Waldorff contributed greatly to the establishment of the Karol Szymanowski Muzeum at the "Atma" Manor in Zakopane.
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Jerzy Waldorff received the title of Honorary Citizen of Warsaw in April 1992.
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Jerzy Waldorff died on December 29,1999, and was buried at the Powazki Cemetery in Warsaw in January 2000.