Moja droga do sacrum
My path to the sacred

Summary/Abstract: It is my profound conviction that it is better to write music which is “my own” than the one which is just “new”. I have therefore distanced myself from the musical avant garde and I have discovered sacred music as my creative path. It includes over a dozen large scale vocal instrumental works, such as Vesperae pro defunctis, Requiem, Via crucis, Resurrectio, Missa de Maria a Magdala, Magnificat & Nunc dimittis, Miserere, four Sym phonies – of Providence, of Love, of Angels and on the Mercy of God, as well as a wide range of a cappella choral compositions. Works exploring the theme of transience (Vesperae pro defunctis, Requiem) and those linked to the spirituality of the Passion and Easter (Via crucis, Resurrectio) constitute other important strands in my output. In order to de scribe my musical idiom I have coined the term “renewed tonality”, which seems to me to fit the sound material that I employ in my pieces. The article cites the documents of the Catholic Church relating to music, including the texts by Popes Pius X and Pius XII, and the Constitution of the Sacred Liturgy of the Second Vatican Council. In writing sacred music I am trying to follow the Catholic Church’s voice expressed in these documents, for I believe that sacred music should be holy and universal. I also follow the musicologist Bohdan Pociej in invoking the four ways in which composers enter the sphere of the sacrum: religious theme, religious climate, sacred time and sound, and sacred form, all of which find their reflection in my music.

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