Research Library of the Polish Composers' Union
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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
Professional Western European music had reached Poland long before the manuscripts contained in the Stary Sącz monastic library were compiled. The...
2022-10-29
The history of the Polish musical Baroque opens with Mikołaj Zieleński’s monumental collection Offertoria et Communiones totius anni, published in...
2022-10-29
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
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
