Tadeusz Baird was a Polish composer. He was born on July 26, 1928 in Grodzisk Mazowiecki. He died on September 2, 1981 in Warsaw. In 1956, with Kazimierz Serocki he founded the Warsaw Autumn international contemporary music festival.
As a composer deeply rooted in the dionysian, romantic stream of art, Baird fully deserved the epithet of a "twentieth-century Romantic," and as such he was mostly interested in the lyrical and dramatic aspects of music.
Baird sets a high value on the voice--particularly the full, rich soprano or mezzo-soprano voice, for which he composed song cycles on texts by Ma³gorzata Hilar and Halina Po¶wiatowska.
TadeuszBaird won numerous distinctions for his achievements in Poland and abroad.
Among Polish composers of contemporary music, TadeuszBaird was distinguishable for the deep respect he retained for tradition.
The entirety of Baird's music is very strongly lyrical, a trait that is most clearly manifested in the fully developed melodic lines, which are song-like in the best sense of the term.
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