Witold Lutoslawski: A Bio-Bibliography
By (Author) Stanislaw Bedkowski
By (author) Stanislaw Hrabia
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Greenwood Press
30th November 2000
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Art music, orchestral and formal music
Biography: arts and entertainment
Bibliographies, catalogues
780.92
Hardback
344
This volume in the Greenwood Press series, Bio-Bibliographies in Music, provides new details about the life and works of Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski. It includes a detailed catalogue of the composer's works and performances, including his film music, incidental music for the theatre, music for radio plays, and songs he composed under a pseudonym, as well as a bibliography, discography, and brief biographical sketch. His unique style was distinguished by an individual harmonic system controlled aleatory technique that he developed more fully during the 1960s and 1970s. The discography includes over 300 recordings and the bibliography includes writings the composer and a separate section for the writings about him, including concert and recording reviews, books, articles, dissertations, and interviews. This research tool will appeal to Lutoslawski fans and to musicologists. Each section is cross-referenced throughout. An appendix provides an alphabetical list of all of the composer's works.
STANISLAW BEDKOWSKI is Lecturer with the Department of Music at the Jagiellonian University in Krakw, Poland. STANISLAW HRABIA is Music Librarian with the Department of Musicology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakw, Poland.