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Sidła - a photo of the cover. In the background a score by Grażyna Bacewicz

A review: ‘Sidła’. A play on the basis of a novel written by Grażyna Bacewicz

In 2018, the Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne publishing house in Cracow (the PWM Edition) published a crime fiction – a detective story entitled Sidła...

2023-08-10

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The book cover

A review: ‘Odwrócony dom’ (‘The Inverted House’) - a novel by Hanna Kulenty

A very important book was recently given to us by a well-known promoter of Polish music, the former director of the Polish Music Center at the...

2023-07-11

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Cover of the 1956 Warsaw Autumn programme

From Polish music history... Polish contemporary music

Between the two world wars, most Polish composers were associated with the Association des Jeunes Musiciens Polonais, founded in 1926 in Paris. They...

2023-01-08

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Karol Szymanowski - portrait

From Polish music history... Karol Szymanowski

Born on 3rd October 1882 in Tymoszówka (now Ukraine), died on 29th March 1937 in Lausanne. He spent his childhood in his family’s country estate....

2023-01-07

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Portrait of Mieczysław Karłowicz

From Polish music history... Mieczysław Karłowicz

Born on 11th Dec. 1876 in Wiszniewo, died tragically on 8th Feb. 1909 in the Tatra. He spent his first six years of childhood in the family estate in...

2023-01-06

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Wieniawski - Souvenir de Posen - one page

From Polish music history... Henryk Wieniawski

Born on 10th July 1835 in Lublin. His father Tadeusz was a renowned surgeon, and his mother Regina née Wolff – an excellent amateur pianist. The...

2022-10-30

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Ignacy Jan Paderewski - Hartsook Photo (San Francisco; Los Angeles), [before 1926]; source: Polona.pl

From Polish music history... Polish music in the early 20th century, Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The time after Chopin in Polish music was a period of the growing influence of German music, particularly of Mendelssohn, Schumann and Wagner....

2022-10-30

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6 Songs by Karłowicz - Cover

From Polish music history... Young Poland

The group which at the turn of the 19th century opposed the conservative character of Polish music, represented by such composers as Żeleński and...

2022-10-30

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Bogurodzica - Mother of God - a manuscript

From Polish music history... The first monuments and early composers

Professional Western European music had reached Poland long before the manuscripts contained in the Stary Sącz monastic library were compiled. The...

2022-10-29

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Bartłomiej Pękiel - Missa brevis

From Polish music history... The Baroque in Polish music

The history of the Polish musical Baroque opens with Mikołaj Zieleński’s monumental collection Offertoria et Communiones totius anni, published in...

2022-10-29

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Cud mniemany - poster

From Polish music history... The Polish opera

The opera – a new musical genre of the Baroque – was brought to Poland on the initiative of Władysław (Ladislaus) Vasa, the king’s son, as...

2022-10-29

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Piano Quintet in G Minor by Zarębski - the first page

From Polish music history... Polish composers before Chopin and his contemporaries

The Romanticism in Polish music was preceded by a development of Polish classical songs, piano and symphonic pieces. The first Polish symphony was...

2022-10-29

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