Frączkiewicz Aleksander, *8 December 1910 Brzeżany (Podole), †28 February 1994, Polish musicologist and teacher. In 1935, he graduated from the Conservatoire of the Polish Music Society in Lviv (piano, composition, and teacher training). He also studied philosophy at Jan Kazimierz University, and musicology at both the Jan Kazimierz University and the Jagiellonian University. In 1947, he obtained a doctorate in musicology from the Jagiellonian University on the basis of his thesis Polski koncert fortepianowy po Chopinie [The Polish Piano Concerto after Chopin]. Between 1936 and 1939 he was a teaching assistant; from 1946 he lectured in music history and theory at the Jagiellonian University and at the State Higher School of Music in Kraków, where he was awarded the title of associate professor in 1957.
Materiały do kształcenia słuchu, with M. Dziewulska and K. Palowska, Krakow 1963, 6th edition 1980
Koncert instrumentalny w 2. połowie XIX wieku, in: Z dziejów polskiej kultury muzycznej, vol. 2, Krakow 1964
Zasady modulacji, with M. Fieldorf, Krakow 1964, 2nd edition 1966
Formy muzyczne, with F. Skołyszewski, 2 vols., Krakow 1966–70, 2nd edition 1979
Faktura fortepianowa koncertów F. Chopina, “Annales Chopin” 3, 1958
“Motyw Beethovenowski”, “Muzyka” Warsaw 1971 No. 4
