Zygmunt Szweykowski (musicologist)

Zygmunt Marian Szweykowski (12 May 1929 – 3 August 2023) was a Polish academic and musicologist, who specialized in Renaissance and Baroque music.

Biography
Born in Kraków on 12 May 1929, he was the son of Zygmunt Szweykowski, a literary historian, and Antonina Szweykowski, née Janiszewska. He studied musicology under Adolf Chybiński at the University of Poznań, graduating in 1951. He obtained his doctoral degree under Józef Michał Chomiński at Jagiellonian University in 1964. He received his habilitation degree in 1987 and became a professor in 1990.

Zygmunt Szweykowski died on 3 August 2023, at the age of 94.