From Emil Młynarski’s correspondence. His letters of 1905–1906 in the collection of the Teatre Museum in Warsaw Cover Image

Z korespondencji Emila Młynarskiego. Listy z lat 1905–1906 ze zbiorów Muzeum Teatralnego w Warszawie
From Emil Młynarski’s correspondence. His letters of 1905–1906 in the collection of the Teatre Museum in Warsaw

Author(s): Elżbieta Szczepańska-Lange
Subject(s): Music
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Opera in Warsaw; Warsaw Philharmony; musical life in Warsaw

Summary/Abstract: The article is an edition (with introduction and commentaries) of Emil Młynarski’s twelve letters to his wife Anna, who in 1905–1906 resided in Lausanne. At that time, Młynarski took his wife and four (still small) children away from the revolution-ridden Warsaw to the safety of Switzerland. He remained in the city, but visited his family at times. The letters bear valuable testimony to Młynarski’s political attitudes, and retain the value of free sincere statements, not subjected to self-censorship. They are a document of a time of crisis in his professional work, accompanied by fnancial problems, resulting from the fact that from the moment he hadbroken his ties with Warsaw Philharmonic (in April 1905), which he had headed, his only employment was now in Warsaw Music Institute. My edition has been supplemented with an afterword concerning the dramatic fates of Młynarski’s family during WWII.

  • Issue Year: 64/2019
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 112-149
  • Page Count: 39
  • Language: Polish