Towards perfect completeness remembering Lutosławski

• Authors: Mieczysław Tomaszewski
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The text is in its character a statement by a “witness to an era”. It is an attempt at describing Lutoslawski’s artistic path and his culture-forming activity from the perspective of an evolution within a concrete historical and political situation. This aesthetic evolution is evidenced in the composer’s utterances: significant interviews and private, confessional notes. They outline his creative path from the impact of Chopin as the emotional arche, through subsequent phases and breakthroughs: from academic aesthetics based on the Hanslick paradigm, through socialist-realist indoctrination and uncritical fascination with the avant-garde, to a gradual crystallisation of his own idiom. Eventually, this entirely own idiom, marked with a lyrical opening, consists in a return to everlasting values, expressly defined by the composer: the truth and the beauty of a work of art.

Keywords

PL

Lutosławski; evolution in art; a work’s political context; Chopin as arche; autotelism and avant-garde; the truth of a work of art

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 175-182

Dates

published

2018-10-17

Contributors

author

Mieczysław Tomaszewski

• professor at the Academy of Music in Krakow, musicologist, theorist and editor of music. He studied piano in Poznań with J. Illasiewicz- Stojalowska, humanities at the University of Toruń (Polish studies) and the Jagiellonian University (musicology). Received his doctorate (Chopin’s Oeuvre and its Reception) and habilitation (Studies on the Romantic Song) at Poznań University. Associated with PWM (Polish Musical Publishers) as editor and editor-in-chief in 1952-88; active at the Academy of Music in Kraków since 1959, as its Chair of Musical WorkTheory and Interpretation since 1989. His research focuses on the theory and history of 19th- and 20th-century music, and on the ontology and axiology of musical work. He deals with a specific theory of music based on phenomenology and related to exegetics, semiotics and intertextual methods. He is the author of many books and articles. His recent books include: Muzyka Chopina na nowo odczytana, I/II [Chopin’s Music Read Anew], (1996/2010), the award-winning Chopin. Człowiek, dzieło, rezonans [Chopin: Man, Work, Resonance], (1998, 2005, 2010), Chopin und seine Zeit (1999), Chopin. Fenomen i paradoks [Chopin: the Phenomenon and the Paradox], (2009) and Interpretacja integralna dzieła muzycznego [Integral Interpretation of the Work of Music], (2000), Muzyka w dialogu ze słowem [Music in Dialogue with the Word], (2003), O muzyce polskiej w perspektywie intertekstualnej [On Polish Music in an Intertextual Perspective], (2005) and Penderecki. Bunt i wyzwolenie, I/II [Penderecki: Revolt and Liberation], (2008/09).