Felix Borowski

Felix Borowski (English: Felix Borowski; 10 March 1872 – 6 September 1956) was an American composer and music educator. He was born in Burton-in-Kendal, South Lakeland, United Kingdom, to a Polish father and an English mother.

He began studying violin and piano with his father, then continued his education in London and later at the Cologne Conservatory. His teachers in Cologne included Georg Jaffa (violin), Ernst Heuser (piano), and Gustav Jensen (composition). For a time he also taught music in Aberdeen.

Borowski’s first known piano piece dates from 1895. From 1896 he lived and worked in the United States, initially as head of the composition department at the Chicago Musical College (now part of Roosevelt University), and from 1916 to 1925 he served as the college’s director. Among his students was the composer Silvestre Revueltas.

From 1908 until the end of his life, Borowski collaborated with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as a writer of concert annotations, and he also worked as a music critic for the newspaper Chicago Sun.

His output includes three symphonies written in the 1930s, the symphonic poem “Semiramis,” and three organ sonatas. He is best known, however, for the short piece for violin and piano “Adoration” (1898), first recorded in 1913 by the violinist Maud Powell.

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