Mrs. Rosenstiel was born in Warsaw, Poland. After World War II, she studied art in Brussels, Belgium. In 1956, she moved to the United States and decided to make it her home. She married the late Lewis S. Rosenstiel, Chairman of Schenley Industries, in 1967. He was a great humanitarian and philanthropist.

  Widowed in 1976, she now resides in Miami Beach during the winter season and at her Blandemar Farm in Charlottesville, Virginia in the summer.

  Her avid interest in the arts, dedication to helping young artists, and desire to promote Poland's heritage while fostering culture in her American homeland, prompted Mrs. Rosenstiel to establish, in 1972, the American Institute of Polish Culture in Miami an organization which today radiates culture and education nationally through a plethora of programs, exhibitions, book publishing, and educational events co-sponsored with universities.

  In 1977, Mrs. Rosenstiel set up the Chopin Foundation of the United States, a national institution dedicated to helping young American musicians, and promoting Chopin's music in the United States through concerts, television projects, publication of the Chopin Journal and international exchange programs for musicians, musicologists and music writers. Regionally, the Foundation operates through its Councils, which are now active in New York, Miami, and San Francisco.

  The Chopin Foundation organizes the National American Chopin Competition for Pianists in Miami. It is a measure of their prestige that their winners are automatically admitted as participants in the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Poland.

  In 1984, at a National Convention held in Washington, DC, Mrs. Rosenstiel was elected as President of the American Council for Polish Culture, a national body with more than forty member organizations. She held this post for two years and has initiated, among others, the establishment of an American Center for Polish Culture in Washington, DC.

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