Zygmunt Mycielski – Michał Bristiger:  Dialogues with Andrzej Panufnik  and Socialist Realism in the Background Cover Image

Zygmunt Mycielski – Michał Bristiger. Dialogi z Andrzejem Panufnikiem i socrealizmem w tle
Zygmunt Mycielski – Michał Bristiger: Dialogues with Andrzej Panufnik and Socialist Realism in the Background

Author(s): Michał Klubiński
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
Published by: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne
Keywords: Michał Bristiger; Zygmunt Mycielski; Andrzej Panufnik; music during Stalinist era; Polish postwar music;

Summary/Abstract: The paper is focused on analysing three texts: a letter from Zygmunt Mycielski to Michal Bristiger dated 15/16 March 1954, the latter’s an-swer from the beginning of April 1954, and Michal Bristiger’s article in Przegląd Kulturalny titled Andrzej Panufnik. Rozważania bez ha-giografii [Andrzej Panufnik. Reflections without hagiography] which is the subject of the correspondence. The main topic of this dialogue is the question whether Panufnik’s oeuvre is grounded in socialist real-ist doctrine and whether the composer and his work were victimised by the communist system. In the paper the author also analyses the neoclassical views of the composers, Panufnik and Mycielski, and examines one of their strategies – relating to the great European tra-ditions and re-defining the aims of socialist realism by promoting folklor

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 22 (31)
  • Page Range: 9-19
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish