Composer and conductor, born on 11 December 1876 in Wiszniewo, died 8 February 1909.Mieczyslaw Karlowicz spent his childhood on his family bestate/b in Wiszniewo, Lithuania. In 1882, when he was six, the property was b.../b musical forms with Gustaw bRoguski/b. It was at that time that he started to compose. His first surviving work, a piano composition. CHANT DE MAI, dates from 1893-4. In 1893-4 Karlowicz also attended lectures at the Department of Nature, b.../b