„Koperczaki ” i „Dmuchawce ” – odnalezione ludowe kompozycje Witolda Lutosławskiego
„Koperczaki” and „Dmuchawce”. The Discovery of Witold Lutosławski’s Folk Compositions

Summary/Abstract: For more than half a century, researchers have been unaware of the existence of Witold Lutosławski’s two compositions, which have been discovered recently – both scores and recordings – in two archives: Paul Sacher Foundation and Polish Radio Archives. Both compositions have been classified as belonging to the applied music part of Lutosławski’s legacy. Koperczaki is one of the radio broadcasts written in collaboration with theatre director Jan Koecher, probably in 1949. Another recently discovered work is titled Dmuchawce and was composed in 1954 at the request of the „Skolimów” Song and Dance Ensemble. Both compositions are a historically significant testimony to a development in music that would have never emerged had it not been for the establishment of Socialist realism as the dominant aesthetic doctrine in Poland.

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