Research Library of the Polish Composers' Union

The end of the year was busy. There was no time for reports. We are doing it now, with a quick glance back at the achievements of recent months. Of all the events, we would like to highlight these two:

We were active participants in the yearly Musicological Conference of the Polish Composers' Union, which was organised for the 54th time in 2025, and took place during and as part of the November Festival of the 100th Anniversary of the Polish Composers' Union. The conference had its own title: Music - Memory - History, and was co-organised and hosted by the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.

At this celebration of Polish musicology (as the conferences organised annually by the Musicologists' Section of the Polish Composers' Union are rightly called), the Polish Composers' Union Library was represented by Wiktoria Antonczyk and Izabela Zymer. Both spoke on 14 November, Wiktoria with a paper entitled White Spots in Contemporary Polish Music Historiography: Musicians of the Second Polish Republic Evacuated to the East, and Izabela with a presentation entitled Let Us Honour Bach by Ensuring Peace for His Peaceful Work – Bach and Socialism, Tribute and Propaganda. On the Leipzig celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach's death (July 1950). We are grateful for the opportunity to speak. It was also joyful, albeit exhausting, to be involved in the organisational work for the Festival and Conference.

It was not an easy time also because, after only a one-day break, an event no less important to us began in Krakow, namely the 16th National Conference of Music Librarians, whose main organiser in 2025 was the Institute of Musicology of the Jagiellonian University, Library and Phonotheque, and which took place in the Auditorium Maximum of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

Our Library's voice was heard on 17 November, spoken by Izabela Zymer, and was entitled Issues of online access to contemporary music – examples, opportunities, problems.

Both conferences provided unique opportunities to exchange ideas and establish direct contacts, which are so important in the work of both musicologists and librarians./p>

We are entering the New Year with the hope that we will be able to devote more time to research work, as well as to implementing and putting into practice the results of our activities in the field of science.

We wish all our friends a successful year. Let all of us hope to get the much-needed tranquillity and true peace on Earth.
(Iz.)