High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Zygmunt Noskowski (2 May 1846 23 July 1909), Polish composer, conductor and teacher. Zygmunt Noskowski was born in Warsaw and was originally trained at the Warsaw Conservatory studying violin and composition. A scholarship enabled him to travel to Berlin where between 1864 and 1867, he studied with Friedrich Kiel, one of Europe's leading teachers of composition. After holding several positions abroad, Noskowski returned to Warsaw in 1880 where he remained for the rest of his life.