Dante Baranowski (25 May 1882, Venice - 16 June 1925, Krynica-Zdrój, now Poland) was a Polish violinist, music critic, choral conductor, entrepreneur, theatre actor, and poet.
Biography
1891-1901 - studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of Lviv University and at the conservatories of Lviv and Vienna.
He worked as a violinist in an orchestra and as a teacher of opera soloists in Graz. After returning to Lviv, he worked as a conductor of an amateur choir and wrote music reviews for the Gazeta Lwowska newspaper. He also conducted the choirs of Lviv University and the Polytechnic Institute.
1908 - organised and headed the Lviv Musical Society and its orchestra.
1912-1913 - organised the Union of Theatres and Peasant Choirs.
In 1913-1914 he worked at the Polish theatre in Poznan, and in 1914-1915 he headed the theatre in Zakopane.
In 1916, he headed the theatre in Tarnów.
1918 - Director of the Lviv Polish Theatre,
1919 - moved to Krakow. 1920-1921 - works at the Krakow Theatre "Bagatela".
In 1922, he organised theatres in Shchavnytsia and Kielce.
1912-1913, 1918 - artistic director of the Lviv Polish Theatre, with which he toured Galicia, staging plays by Stanisław Przybyszewski.
His wife was the poet and playwright Maria Plazek, whom he married in 1908.
