| Description |
xvii, 402 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
A landmark volume which looks at the multifaceted spheres that informed the composer's life and works and represents a new departure in the study of his music. In this volume, for the first time, the world's leading Lutoslawski scholars consider the full range of his musical output and the biographical, cultural and historical contexts in which those musics were created. It contends that all of Lutoslawski's worlds are equally worthy of study, because each represents an opportunity better to understand the life and music of a figure of paramount importance to the critical and cultural history of twentieth-century music. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-381) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: Mourning, modernism, and genius. Witold Lutosławski's Muzyka żałobna (1958) and the construction of genius / Lisa Cooper Vest -- Personal loss, cultural grief, and Lutosławski's Music of mourning / Nicholas Reyland -- Lutosławski's String quartet : mourning, melancholia, and modern subjectivity / Michael L. Klein -- Part II: Other Lutosławskis. Behind the curtain of oblivion : Lutosławski's music for theatre and radio plays / Wioleta Muras -- Derwid as Lutosławski's patron / Danuta Gwizdalanka -- Witold Lutosławski in occupied Warsaw / Katarzyna Naliwajek-Mazurek -- Lutosławski and sonoristics / Iwona Lindstedt -- Part III: Documents. Lutosławski on contemporary music : critical commentary in letters and documents from the Lutosławski Correspondence Collection / Stanisław Będkowski -- Witold Lutosławski's artistic diary : an unknown document of the composer's creative path / Zbigniew Skowron -- MAT. LUDOWE : the Lutos File / Adrian Thomas -- Part IV: Political engagement;. Lutosławski and Stalinism : contextualizing artistic and political choices around 1950 / David G. Tompkins. Lutosławski's political refrains / Andrea F. Bohlman -- Part V: Legacies. Lutosławski, revived and remixed / Lisa Jakelski -- Heart and brain, tradition and modernism : Lutosławski and the continuing story of harmony / Steven Stucky ; editing and prologue by Nicholas Reyland. |
| Subject |
Lutosławski, Witold 1913-1994. |
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Lutosławski, Witold, 1913-1994.
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Lutosławski, Witold, 1913-1994. |
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Composers -- Poland -- Biography.
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Composers. |
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Poland. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Jakelski, Lisa, 1978- editor.
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Reyland, Nicholas W., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic version: Lutosławski's worlds. Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer Ltd. 2017 9781787442214 (OCoLC)1035389819 |
| ISBN |
9781783271986 paperback |
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1783271981 paperback |
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9781787442214 electronic book |
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1787442217 electronic book |
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