Notes on the Authors

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Notes on the Authors
Stanisław Będkowski, musicologist, a lecturer at the Institute of Musicology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, specializing in the twentieth-century music. Ph.D. in musicology
from the Jagiellonian University in 2001 (dissertation on harmony in works of Wojciech Kilar).
Co-editor of ‘Witold Lutosławski Studies’. Together with Stanisław Hrabia, he prepared the
volume Witold Lutosławski: A Bio-Bibliography in Music (Westport–London 2001). His publications in foreign languages include also: ‘Kilar’ – an entry in the last edition of MGG, ‘Witold Lutosławski’ – an entry in Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant Garde (ed. Larry Sitsky,
Westport-London 2002), A Farewell to the Avant-garde – Krzesany by Wojciech Kilar, in Musica
Iagellonica, vol. 4, 2007, The Diary of the Life, Works and Activity of Witold Lutosławski, in Witold
Lutosławski Studies, no. 1, 2007.
Marcin Bogusławski, architect, son of Danuta Lutosławska (primo voto: Bogusławska) and
Jan Bogusławski. Stepson of Witold Lutosławski. He graduated in Warsaw; afterwards he emigrated to Norway and settled in Oslo. In 2006 he came back with his family to Poland. The
author of architectural projects of Norwegian buildings, including churches in Drammen and
Larvik, and co-author of many projects, among others the Olympic hockey hall in Lillehammer and main seats of Statoil, Shell, Phillips. Winner of more than 30 prizes and awards in
European, Scandinavian and Norwegian competitions.
Łukasz Dobrowolski, musicologist and guitarist, Ph.D. student at the Institute of Musicology
at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (dissertation on guitar concertos of Joaquín Rodrigo).
He gives concerts, performing solo and chamber music from different ages and of various
stylistic trends in Poland and abroad. With Cracow Guitar Quartet was the winner of the 12th
International Guitar Competition in Ile De Ré (France) in 2009. A field of his interest in
Musicology is music history from the 19th century to the present time, especially Spanish,
Latin American and guitar music. Main publications include articles: Guitar concertos of Joaquín
Rodrigo (in Forum Muzykologiczne 2006, ZKP Warszawa); Modernistic Aspects of Karol Szyman‑
owski’s Maski and Metopy (in Ideas of Modernism and Postmodernism in Composers’ Poetics and
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Reflection about Music. Studies edited by A. Jarzębska and J. Paja-Stach, Kraków Musica Iagellonica 2007); International Festivals of Guitar Music in Poland (in The Musicologist and Source
Documentary Evidence. A Book of Essays in Honour of Professor Piotr Poźniak on His 70th Birthday,
edited by Z. Fabiańska, J. Kubieniec, A. Sitarz, P. Wilk, Kraków: Musica Iagellonica 2009) and
several entries for Encyklopedia Muzyczna PWM, ed. E. Dziębowska, Kraków 2009, vol. t–v
(among others, Joaquín Turina, Heitor Villa-Lobos).
Jadwiga Paja-Stach is Professor at the Institute of Musicology at the Jagiellonian University in
Kraków. She is a head of the Department of Methodology and History of Music since the 19th
Century. Among her interests are mainly methods of analysis of a musical work and history of
20th-century music. She is the author of many articles, entries (for Die Musik in Geschichte und
Gegenwart and Encyklopedia Muzyczna PWM) and 5 books: Dzieła otwarte w twórczości kom‑
pozytorów XX wieku (Open works in the Music of 20th-Century Composers) Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego1992, Witold Lutosławski Kraków: Musica Iagellonica 1996,
Lutosławski i jego styl muzyczny (Lutosławski and his musical style) Kraków: Musica Iagellonica
1997, Twórczość Willema Pijpera w kontekście muzyki XX wieku/The work of Willem Pijper in the
context of twentieth century music (bilingual book) Kraków: Musica Iagellonica 2002, Muzyka
polska od Paderewskiego do Pendereckiego (Polish Music from Paderewski to Penderecki), Kraków:
Musica Iagellonica 2009. She has also edited three books: Andrzej Panufnik’s music and its re‑
ception Kraków: Musica Iagellonica 2003, Witold Lutosławski i jego wkład do kultury muzycznej
XX wieku (Witold Lutosławski and his contribution to 20th century music culture) Kraków: Musica
Iagellonica 2005 and – with Alicja Jarzębska – Idee modernizmu i postmodernizmu w poetyce
kompozytorskiej i w refleksji o muzyce (Ideas of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Poetics of Com‑
posers and in Reflections on Music), Kraków: Musica Iagellonica 2007. She also founded a journal
“Witold Lutosławski Studies”.
Anna G. Piotrowska, musicologist, Ph.D., assistant professor at Jagiellonian University (Institute of Musicology) mainly interested in sociological and cultural aspects of musical life and
the place of music in human life. In 2007 with 20 other scholars she co-authored A Manifesto
for the Humanities in Europe. In varietate Concordia. Author of the book Idea muzyki narodowej
w twórczości kompozytorów amerykańskich pierwszej połowy XX wieku (The Idea of National Music
in the Works of American Composers of the Early 20th century, Toruń: Adam Marszałek 2003) and
more than thirty articles (in Polish, English, German, Slovak and Georgian) on musical culture.
Currently she is involved in the project on stereotypization via music with special emphasis on
so called “Gypsy music”.