Our community has lost a truly exceptional man and scholar who combined the scientific worlds of acoustics, psychology, and music in a unique way during his career that spanned over half a century. Andrzej Rakowski, Emeritus Professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music passed away on April 3, 2018 in Warsaw, Poland, at the age of 87. He was an internationally acclaimed authority on musical acoustics and psychoacoustics and a major figure in auditory perception research. He was born in Warsaw on June 16, 1931. After graduating in electronic engineering (Warsaw University of Technology, M. Sc. in 1957) and music theory (State Higher School of Music in Warsaw, M. A. in 1958), he went to Great Britain on a British Council Scholarship (1958/59) and worked at Durham University, King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne with one of the most renowned specialists on acoustics of musical instruments, Professor E. G. Richardson. Later, after defending his doctoral dissertation (Warsaw University of Technology, D. Sc. in 1963, thesis: “Initial transients in sounds of wind instruments”) he was nominated to the position of Assistant Professor at the newly opened Department of Sound Engineering in Warsaw Higher School of Music (since 2008, Fryderyk Chopin Music University). His research interest turned in the direction of music psychoacoustics and he focused on the issues concerning the perception of pitch. He received a second doctoral degree ( habilitation ) in art sciences (musicology) from the University of Warsaw in 1977 (thesis: “Categorical perception of pitch in music”) and became an associate professor (1982) and then a full-professor (1989), as conferred by the President …

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安德烈·拉科夫斯基（Andrzej Rakowski），1931-2018年

我们的社区失去了一位真正杰出的人和学者，他在半个多世纪的职业生涯中以独特的方式将声学，心理学和音乐的科学世界融合在一起。Fryderyk肖邦音乐大学的名誉教授Andrzej Rakowski于2018年4月3日去世，享年87岁。他是享誉国际的音乐声学和心理声学权威，也是听觉感知研究的主要人物。他于1931年6月16日出生于华沙。在电子工程专业（1957年于华沙理工大学获得理学硕士学位）和音乐理论（1958年在马萨诸塞州华沙的国立高等音乐学院）毕业后，他去了Great英国获得英国文化协会奖学金（1958/59），并曾在达勒姆大学，国王学院，泰恩河畔纽卡斯尔与最著名的乐器声学专家之一EG理查森教授。后来，为自己的博士学位论文辩护（1963年，华沙理工大学，博士学位，论文：“管乐器声音中的初始瞬变”），他被提名为新成立的美国声音工程系的助理教授。华沙音乐高等学校（自2008年起，弗雷德里克·肖邦音乐大学）。他的研究兴趣转向音乐心理声学的方向，他专注于有关音高感知的问题。他于1977年在华沙大学获得了艺术科学（音乐学）的第二个博士学位（学位）（论文：“音乐中音调的分类理解”），并成为了副教授（1982年），然后成为教授（1989年） ），