BETWEEN POZNAN AND VILNIUS. THE PHONOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE OF THE STEFAN BATORY UNIVERSITY IN THE LIGHT OF CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN ROMAN PADLEWSKI AND MARIA ZNAMIEROWSKA-PRÜFFER

• Authors: Kostrzewa-Majoch A.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article is based on the unpublished documents held in the Archive of the Ethnographic Museum in Torun (MET), left by Maria Znamierowska-Prüffer (1898 -1990), who worked at the Ethnology Department of the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius and was also curator of the University's Ethnographic Museum. Among these documents are museum reports and letters from people who collaborated with the museum - the composers Tadeusz Szeligowski (1896-1963) and Roman Padlewski (1915-44). They throw a new light on a little-known area of the history of research into music folklore in Poland, represented by the activities of the Phonographic Archive of the Stefan Batory University. This unit, which was active during the nineteen-thirties, was created by Professor Cezaria Baudoin de Courteney Ehrenkreutz-Jedrzejowicz as part of the University's Ethnographic Museum, which functioned at the Department of Ethnology. The aim of the Archive was to document music as one of the aspects of the wider concept of the folk culture of the Polish north-eastern borderlands. The person who undertook the practical implementation of planned recordings for the Museum was Roman Padlewski. He was a student of Poznan conservatory, and also studied musicology there. As a casual employee of the Ethnographic Museum at Vilnius he reported directly to Szeligowski. During field research in the Polish village of Mieszkance, near Vilnius (July-August 1933), Padlewski recorded on rollers about 100 melodies. These materials were held in a separate section of the archive department, the 'Archive of Ethnographic Melography'. Padlewski's correspondence shows that the structure of this Phonographic Archive was largely modelled on Poznan's Regional Phonographic Archive. Evidence of this, among other things, is provided by a blank form of the 'Main Report' used in Poznan, provided for the museum's curator as the model for editing the recorded material. The fate of Padlewski's recordings (probably the only ones deposited at the Museum) after the Museum's closure in December 1939 is unknown. It is possible that additional information about what happened to them will come to light during detailed searches addressed to the archives and museums of Vilnius.

Keywords

EN

MUSIC FOLKLORE (POLAND); PADLEWSKI R.; PHONOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE (VILNIUS)

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Muzyka
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 49
• Issue: 4(195)
• Pages: 133-153
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kostrzewa-Majoch A.

• A. Kostrzewa-Majoch, Muzeum Etnograficzne im. Marii Znamierowskiej-Prüfferowej, ul Waly gen. Sikorskiego 19, 87-100 Torun, Poland

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05PLAAAA0038934