Who was Karol Szymanowski? Karol Szymanowski, the Polish composer and pianist being celebrated in today’s Google Doodle, was born on October 3, 1882, in Timoshovka, Ukraine. He came from a noble Polish family that had been exiled to Ukraine after the fall of the KoĹ›ciuszko Uprising. At the age of 18, Szymanowski returned to Warsaw […]