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Alina Ratkowska, born in Gdynia (1976) won the first prize at the 2005 Paola Bernardi International Harpsichord Competition in Bologna. She is the originator and director of the Goldberg Festival in Gdańsk, and a lecturer at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. In 2002 the artist was conferred the diploma of Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, the
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Goldberg's name is widely known. There is probably no musician who would not have heard J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations. Unfortunately, the extent of the common knowledge usually ends there. Johann Gottlieb was the oldest son of Johann Goldberg, a violin maker born in Orunia in 1701, and Concordia Renata Witting. On 14 March 1727 he was baptised at St.
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