From Poland with Music: 100 Years of Polish Composers Abroad (1918-2018)

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From Poland with Music: 100 Years of Polish Composers Abroad (19182018)is the first comprehensive treatment of the theme of emigration among Polish composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. The book focuses on classical composers (e.g. Paderewski, Weinberg, Panufnik), but extends to important figures from the worlds of jazz and film music (Komeda, Makowicz, Kaczmarek, Korzeniowski).

The first part of the book contains a series of essays on overarching themes related to the Polish musical diaspora, while the second part comprises an engaging collection of interviews with experts concerning the life and legacy of selected composers, with revealing insights into the artists personalities and entertaining anecdotes from their lives. Ignacy Jan Paderewski was not only an outstanding pianist and composer, but also the prime minister and minister of foreign affairs of free Poland in 1919. Bronislaw Kaper was the first Polish composer to win an Oscar in 1954 forLili,and Henryk Wars scored 60 projects for Columbia, Universal, Twentieth Century Fox, MGM, United Artists and Paramount.

From Poland with Musicrecalls all of these stories, revealing just how impactful Polish composers have been on the international music scene in the last 100 years.

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Dr Beata Boleslawska-Lewandowska is a Researcher at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Dr Mariusz Gradowski is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Warsaw and Lecturer on the postgraduate course Music and Media at Collegium Civitas. He also works regularly with Polish Radio 2 and The Frederic Chopin Institute. Dr Grzegorz Piotrowski is Head of the Cultural Studies Department at the University of Gdansk and lecturer at the Music Academy in Gdansk. Dr Marlena Wieczorek is a musicologist, cultural manager, and the president of the MEAKULTURA Foundation which is responsible for this project. She is a two-time holder of the MKiDN (Ministry of Culture and National Heritage) scholarship. Marlena devised the concept for this book.